How to become a top global macro trader
The life of a macro trader is, in theory, one of the wildest rides in the financial sector. While most trading roles stick to relatively rigid rules or strategies, macro hedge funds have the...
View ArticleDie Frage aller Fragen: Mit welcher Mindestpunktzahl lässt sich der CFA Level...
Endlich liegen die Ergebnisse der Prüfungen zum ersten Level des Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) vor. Mit einer Erfolgsquote von 43 Prozent liegen die Examen aus dem Dezember immerhin um fünf...
View ArticleCiti loses energy head to expanding private equity firm
A senior energy investment banker at Citigroup, Ekaterina Zotova, has left after two years to take a role at an expanding private equity company backed by Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa Group....
View ArticleUpset as Bank of America’s head of EMEA rates and currencies disappears just...
Yunho Song, head of the rates and currencies business at Bank of America, is no longer with the bank. Recruiters say Song mysteriously resigned just prior to bonus time. Bank of America declined to...
View ArticleSenior bankers’ pain as pay is reallocated to aggressive juniors
At the very top of the banking industry, people are doing well. Jamie Dimon got a 74% increase in his pay this year, James Gorman got an 86% increase in his deferred stock bonus and Lloyd Blankfein has...
View ArticleSenior finance headhunter shares personal New Year’s power diet
It’s nearly February. If you have spent the entirety of January sipping green tea and abstaining from alcohol, you can recrudesce starting from tomorrow. One headhunter in London, however, spends 12...
View ArticleWould you move to Salt Lake City for a job at Goldman Sachs?
Although Goldman Sachs still pays extremely well, the New York bank aggressively ratcheted down compensation costs last year, allocating just 37% of revenue to cover employee salaries, bonuses and...
View ArticleCareer crunch: People to target at the major banks, how to stand out from the...
Missed the major stories on eFinancialCareers over the past week? Fear not – catch up with the most popular articles of the last seven days below. 100 names you need to know if you want a job at...
View ArticleFront office hiring surging as banks interview ahead of expected bonus...
There’s been a seasonal upturn in banks’ hiring plans for front office jobs in sales, trading and M&A. Recruiters say the pace of interviewing has picked up dramatically in the past few weeks....
View ArticlePourquoi UBS est en train de redevenir un employeur attractif
Ce matin, UBS a publié ses résultats pour le quatrième trimestre 2013 (les voici). Ils devraient redonner le sourire à ses salariés. La banque UBS est repassée dans le vert en 2013, dégageant un...
View ArticleNew sovereign wealth fund starts hiring
The Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the country’s $1bn SWF that started investing in June last year, is hiring. After setting up the executive team last year, the fund is starting to...
View ArticleMeet the new SAC Capital, or whatever it will be called
We knew it was coming, we just didn’t know when and in what form. SAC Capital Advisors will soon turn from one of the most successful hedge funds of all time to a shrunken-down family office that...
View ArticleBarclays is losing senior fixed income sales staff three days before bonuses
As a possible part of the 400 redundancies reported at Barclays last week, we understand that the U.K. bank has parted company with some of its longest serving London-based sales staff. Andrea...
View ArticleGASTBEITRAG: Was Banker von einem Feuerwehrhauptmann lernen können
Lange Arbeitszeiten, 24stündige Abrufbereitschaft an sieben Tagen die Woche und banale Tätigkeiten, die von heldenhaften Momenten unterbrochen werden … dabei handelt es sich um die Stellenbeschreibung...
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Can you conquer the hardest strategy questions asked in finance interviews?
An argument can be made that the hardest interview questions in all of financial services are asked by top consulting firms. They require intense preparation but also the ability to think on your feet...
View ArticleLes cinq erreurs rédhibitoires qui plombent l’espérance de vie d’un CV
On vous les répète depuis longtemps, que vous soyez directeur financier, analyste financier confirmé ou spécialiste en risque de crédit : la liste des choses à faire et ne pas faire dans un CV est bien...
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Despite bonus decimation, Barclays’ rates traders have just given huge...
Barclays’ bonuses are due to be announced this Friday. They are unlikely to be particularly generous: the British bank is being urged to cut costs and chief executive Antony Jenkins has agreed to...
View ArticleGlut of Australian accounting graduates means they need to look to Asia,...
Students from Asia are returning in droves to Australian universities, making the country one of the most popular destinations for undergraduates from China and India and providing billions of dollars...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Why another big round of banking job cuts could be coming...
If you work for Barclays or RBS, you might be a little fearful that your job will disappear in the months to come. If you work elsewhere, you might be feeling more sanguine. That sanguineness could be...
View ArticleJunior banking jobs in UK locations you probably haven’t thought of
Students considering a banking job in the UK inevitably think of the City of London, but in an era of cost-cutting, most jobs outside of the front office are being shipped off to cheaper locations with...
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