Morning Coffee: How to get a bond strategy job at Blackrock. Deutsche Bank...
If you’re looking for work as a bond-focused fund manager and you don’t want to risk your chances with cat-happy Bill Gross over at Pimco, why not try Blackrock? Bloomberg reports that the fund...
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Wie Sie bei Gehaltsverhandlungen in der Schweiz das meiste Geld herausschlagen
Die Boni sind ausbezahlt und die Zahl der offenen Stellen nimmt langsam auch in der Schweiz zu. Schon lange nicht mehr war die Zeit für die Jobsuche so günstig. Doch wie können Finanzprofis bei einem...
View ArticleSix front office finance jobs experiencing ‘huge’ hiring in 2014
OK, so ‘huge’ hiring may be a misnomer – despite promising early indications that 2014 was going to be a big year for jobs in finance, it hasn’t really come to much so far. Financial services...
View ArticleSechs untrügliche Zeichen, dass Sie dringend einen neuen Job benötigen
Erhalten Sie einen stattlichen Bonus, lernen Sie täglich Neues hinzu und klettern Sie die Karriereleiter Sprosse um Sprosse nach oben? Wenn die Antwort auf alle drei Fragen „Nein“ lautet, dann sollten...
View ArticleWhy you want to work at an activist hedge fund
Watching the game of musical chairs that followed this past bonus season, one thing became clear. Never have bankers collectively had more interest in ditching the sell-side for a job at a hedge fund....
View ArticleAll you need to know on Sajid Javid, banker turned culture secretary
As of this morning, Britain has an ex-banker as its culture secretary. Sajid Javid, banker (ex) has been promoted to replace Maria Miller, who resigned after a big row about her expenses. Javid used...
View ArticleHigh frequency trading firm nearly triples pay to over $925k a head
High frequency trading firms have been under a lot of scrutiny since the publication of Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys last week, prompting ongoing debates over unfair advantages and market rigging. They...
View ArticleReasons why recruiters reject you, and how to stop this
Despite talk of an improved job market, it’s still tough to make a new career move, particularly as investment banks continue to roll out redundancies in the wake of weak FICC revenues, while others...
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Compliance : Les jobs les mieux payés dans le monde
Les professionnels de la conformité au sein de l’industrie financière sont des denrées rares et donc choyées. En Asie, la pénurie d’experts est telle que les banques se tournent vers des traders sur le...
View ArticleThe 90 most-important seconds of a banking interview
If MBAs excel at one thing in particular, it’s preparing for an interview. Top business schools work tirelessly to mold their students into interview machines. MBAs memorize case studies, practice...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: JPMorgan details where it’s hiring 000s. Perfect background...
Want to work for JPMorgan? That’s good – if you want to work in the bank’s technology or control divisions. It’s less good if you want to work in a front office role in sales, trading or M&A –...
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Here’s how much you can earn as an associate in M&A, city by city
Thanks to recruitment firm Dartmouth Partners, we already know how much you can earn as an analyst working in investment banking in the City of London. But how much can you earn one notch up, as an...
View ArticleWieso Bewerber immer wieder abgelehnt werden und wie sie es besser machen
So mancher Bewerber kassiert eine Ablehnung nach der anderen und das, obwohl er prächtig auf die ausgeschriebene Stelle passen würde. Daran kann der Kandidat auch Mitschuld tragen. Wir haben einige...
View ArticleMeet the two sources that outed @GSElevator
The story of John Lefevre, author of the infamous @GSElevator Twitter account, has been a fascinating one to follow. The latest chapter is no less disappointing. Media outlets had chased Lefevre’s...
View ArticleHow bankers on less than £150k are playing the London housing market
The London housing market is a feverish thing. In the past year, prices in the City have risen 18% to an average of £363k ($609k). In the most up-and-coming boroughs (eg. Brixton and Hackney) house...
View ArticleFitness, naps and meditation: The science of becoming a better fund manager
To gentlemen portfolio managers like Neil Woodford, Richard Woolnough and Anthony Bolton – who are magnets for client assets and earn millions a year – or hot shot (ex)-hedge fund traders like Greg...
View ArticleTrotz Rekordverlusts heuert HSH Nordbank 200 neue Mitarbeiter an
Die Schifffahrtskrise hat der HSH Nordbank erneut einen Strich durch die Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung gemacht. So musste die strauchelnde Landesbank in 2013 einen Verlust von 814 Mio. Euro verkraften,...
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Le métier auquel les financiers ne pensent pas. Et pourtant…
Il y a des classements en finance qui passent relativement inaperçus. C’est le triste sort souvent réservé aux league tables des PR Advisors en M&A, autrement dit les agences de communication qui...
View ArticleHow to get a job on Wall Street without rich parents and an Ivy League education
I landed my first banking job in 1995 after 104 rejections. That opportunity gave me a chance to work on Wall Street, which was all I wanted – or needed. In my nearly 20 years in the industry, I have...
View ArticleThe disquiet at Deutsche goes much deeper than coming FICC layoffs
Deutsche Bank is making redundancies. The German bank hasn’t officially commented about the layoffs (and declined to comment for this article), but is expected to dismiss 500 investment bankers over...
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