The warped psychology of the underpaid investment banker
Bonuses are a funny thing. While it’s mostly about the money, there’s plenty of ego riding on that check, too. Bankers are being judged through a dollar sign and a bunch of zeros that hold both literal...
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Les boutiques M&A, la nouvelle bonne pioche ?
Le démarrage de l’année 2014 pour les banques d’affaires en France a été incroyablement bon. Dealogic a diffusé hier de nouvelles données susceptibles de vous aider à cibler les potentiels nouveaux...
View Article22 financial services firms that will hire you in the second quarter
We’re moving into the second quarter. Needless to say, this is the time of year when people in banking traditionally swap jobs after being paid a bonus. If you’re in this situation, or if you want to...
View ArticleThe rise of the investment banker ‘thriller’
The golden rule of writing fiction is stick to what you know. For financial services professionals with a taste for creative writing, this invariably means hanging a plot around a stressed investment...
View ArticleStar bankers win bonus season at the expense of colleagues
US bankers took home an average bonus that falls roughly in line with what they were paid over the previous five years, according to a new eFinancialCareers survey. Yet, while the average incentivised...
View Article“Young Money” ou les tribulations des jeunes financiers de Wall Street
Kevin Roose, journaliste au New York Magazine, vient de sortir son nouvel opus. Intitulé “Young Money : Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits“, il suit la vie de huit jeunes...
View ArticleCubist Systematic and other stupidly named hedge funds of the world
Remember the hedge fund name generator? The site has generated so many hits that it’s attracting advertising from JPMorgan, among others. Steve Cohen does not seem to have consulted it when renaming...
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The bankers’ dilemma: moving jobs won’t achieve a higher bonus. Nor will a...
Post-bonus job-hopping is fuelled by investment bankers feeling short-changed and looking for a bigger package elsewhere. However, switching jobs doesn’t automatically equate to a bigger bonus, and nor...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Time to preemptively escape Deutsche Bank and Barclays’ FICC...
If you work in fixed income for Barclays or Deutsche Bank and you receive a better job offer, you may want to do some serious weighing-up. As we noted last week, fixed income sales and trading hasn’t...
View ArticleAcht Tipps, damit Ihr Jobwechsel nicht im Desaster endet
Nach einigen traurigen Jahren belebt sich endlich wieder der Arbeitsmarkt für Finanzprofis. Mithin scheint der rechte Zeitpunkt gekommen, um über den nächsten Karriereschritt nachzudenken. Doch wie...
View ArticleEight ways to avoid walking into a terrible career move
For the first time in over three years, the job market for financial services professionals is looking healthy and many people, who would often have endured more work without a commensurate increase in...
View ArticleCiti suddenly fills neglected job left unoccupied for five whole years
Things are looking up in M&A. Despite some dubious comments from senior M&A bankers to the effect that the M&A recovery isn’t really upon us yet, Dealogic reported on Monday that...
View ArticleSenior partner of Deutsche Bank ‘super-start-up’ hedge fund retires and goes...
A senior partner at Arrowgrass Capital Partners, the $4.5bn hedge fund spun out of Deutsche Bank by a team of traders during the financial crisis in 2008, has retired to return to academia. Chris...
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Vorsteuergewinn von 1,5 Mrd. Euro: Was die Mitarbeiter der HVB kassieren
Der Vorsteuergewinn der Hypo Vereinsbank (HVB) ist in 2013 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 29 Prozent auf 1,5 Mrd. Euro abgestürzt, wie das Institut am heutigen Mittwoch (12. März) mitteilte. In 2012 hatte...
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Ex-Goldman trader presents cushion-heavy photographic montage of ‘Playboy...
How can you spot a playboy? Ex-Goldman Sachs trader-turned trader-trainer Anton Kreil seems to suggest that a leading indicator is a collection of strategically placed cushions. Kreil is running a...
View ArticleThe best MBA programs for a high-paying job on Wall Street
If you want a near-guaranteed job out of business school – and you want that job to be on Wall Street – Harvard and Stanford shouldn’t be your top choices, despite the fact that they yet again topped...
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Où les plus gros bonus ont-ils été distribués dans le monde de la finance...
Dans quel centre financier étranger devriez-vous travailler pour percevoir les plus gros bonus ? Étonnamment peut-être, l’enquête Bonus 2013 réalisée en ligne par eFinancialCareers auprès des...
View ArticleThe ‘two-hour train test’ and other ways of breaking into this sector where...
If you want to make the move into financial PR, there’s no shortage of career options. Flacks outnumber hacks by four to one and financial services organisations have plenty of room for someone who can...
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‘Bankerisation’ of the UK consumer price basket
The Consumer Price Index is the UK government’s chosen index when it comes to maintaining inflation at 2%. The way the index is determined is therefore crucial to the framing of UK monetary policy. As...
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Die kleinen Gehälter der großen Bundesbank
Finanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble kann sich zufrieden die Hände reiben. In Kürze steht ihm eine satte Überweisung aus Frankfurt ins Haus. Denn die Bundesbank hat in 2013 einen Überschuss von 4,6 Mrd....
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