10 best Masters in Finance courses for careers in trading
If you’re studying a Masters in Finance or MSc in finance, what will you do when it finishes? Having spent big money on the qualification, will you get a big job in the front office of an investment...
View ArticleJunior bankers also need parental handouts to get by
If you thought your entry-level banking job would allow you to stop living off your parents, you were wrong. Junior bankers today say their lifestyle is far from what they’d expected when they sent in...
View ArticleGoldman’s European push; Pimco back on the hiring trail
In the latest hiring roundup, Goldman is hiring in Europe, Morgan Stanley is back in the commodities game and Pimco is eyeing buy side and sell side talent. Pimco needs new bodies Pimco’s new chief...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Asia’s rainmakers face client drought, even as wealth increases
The solution for tapping into the ever-growing pot of wealth in Asia and gaining access to Hong Kong’s billionaire population with an eye-watering average net worth of $4.2bn has always been simple –...
View ArticleBarclays planning 20% headcount increase in MENA
From an employment perspective, two things were clear when Barclays unveiled its wide-ranging strategy review in May – headcount would shrink and the expensive directors and managing directors were...
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30 skill sets that banks need most now
As 2015 moves into view, which skills are banks most in need of? Or, to put it another way, what should you be listing on your CV if you want to get hired in the next year? We’ve looked at the skills...
View ArticleHedge fund increases profits by $94m, cuts headcount and pay
The UK arm of Paul Tudor Jones’ Tudor Investment Corporation increased profits by over $94m over the 12 months to March 2014, but reduced the number of investment management staff it employs and cut...
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Why you would be quite stupid to quit banking at director level
You’re a director in an investment bank. In your fantasy, you will one day be a managing director (MD) in that investment bank. Except that it’s a lot harder to make managing director than it used to...
View ArticleEnter our finance interview questions competition. Win an iPad!
Have you interviewed for a student role at an investment bank, fund management firm, hedge fund, insurance company or private equity fund to start in 2015? If so, we want to hear from you! We’re...
View ArticleFive reasons why you should want to be an investment banker
There is plenty of chatter, on this site and on others, about why investment banking is a difficult career path. The hours are brutal, pay isn’t what it was and there is still a bit of a stigma...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan’s Asian M&A hiring spree
TMT is the place to be in Asia. So says JPMorgan’s global chairman for telecoms, media and telecommunications investment banking, Jennifer Nason, who thinks it’s the best location for big deal-makers...
View ArticleSix new finance firm that could offer job opportunities in London
Last month there were over 260 new financial services firms authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. In contrast with 2014, the past few months have seen a raft of new companies, many...
View Article10 ways to break into banking in your 30s
You want a career change into banking, but you’re not in the first flush of youth. Banks are known for their partiality to 20-somethings who work 100 hour weeks. So what are your chances of getting in...
View ArticleCiti seems to be hiring juniors, losing senior staff
It’s that time of year when line managers in banks look at their depleted bonus pools and then look at their headcounts. If people are to be happy, then either one must grow or one must shrink. Usually...
View ArticleHow to justify your finance career to leftist relatives, by Deutsche Bank
If you’re in the US, the coming days will be spent in the company relatives, some of whom may not be totally approving of your red-blooded capitalistic career in finance. How can you deflect their...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Barclays to hire 25% more private bankers in Asia
Earlier this week we reported on Barclays’ plans to increase headcount by 15% to 20% in its wealth and investment management division in the Middle East and North Africa. Now Barclays has announced a...
View ArticleSingaporean finance professionals risk burnout by refusing to switch off on...
The Christmas holiday season is fast approaching, but while finance professionals in Singapore may be technically ‘on leave’ for much of this period, they may well still be in touch with the office –...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs MD joins ex-colleagues at distressed debt hedge fund
Manuel Garcia, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, has left the bank to join former colleagues at a distressed debt focused hedge fund. Garcia, who officially left the US bank last week, signed up as...
View ArticleHow to handle it when they try to edge you out (before bonuses)
It’s nearly December, and it seems they’re trying edge you out. Don’t take it personally, it happens all the time. Don’t quit. Firstly, the hassle that’s coming your way may not be intentional or...
View ArticleRegulators offering high pay and career progression to private equity...
If you’re a senior private equity professional used to generous salaries and bonuses and, more importantly, the prospect of a huge long-term pay day through carried interest, would you quit the buyside...
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