How bankers’ children are stopping bankers shifting to jobs in Hong Kong
The children of senior bankers are hampering their parents’ plans to relocate to Hong Kong. When global banks in Hong Kong want to hire or transfer overseas-based candidates who have children, a...
View ArticleGestion de carrière : les 3 freins à lever pour les jeunes financiers
Les rencontres avec les professionnels de la Finance permettent de réaliser à quel point le monde de la finance est émaillé de carrières atypiques. D’ailleurs, la crise a bel et bien clôturé l’époque...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Daughter of $100m finance exec produces haunting list of...
So you thought banking had become a nicer place to work following all those well-publicized efforts to reduce young bankers’ working hours? How wrong you were. As widely predicted by everyone with any...
View ArticleEx-Clive Capital CIO wunderkind joins Moore Capital Management
Moore Capital has hired Tristan Almada, the 28-year-old former co-CIO of Taurosso Capital, the in-house hedge fund of now-defunct commodity fund Clive Capital. Louis Bacon’s $12.1bn hedge fund seems to...
View ArticleDVFA greift CFA an: Ist der neue Applied Investment Manager besser als Claritas?
Die Rivalität zwischen CFA Society und DVFA geht in die nächste Runde. Nachdem die CFA Society mit ihrer neuen Kurzqualifikation Claritas sich gezielt an das Backoffice richtet, legt die DVFA nach. Am...
View ArticleWhat we’ve learned recently about top-level pay in the insurance industry
Guess what? Insurance companies are big payers. Stephen Hester isn’t the only UK-based insurance professional making big money. The Prudential’s Richard Woolnough earns more ($29m) than the bosses of...
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Meet the new ‘insider trader’ gently mocking the City
Is there anything the financial sector fears more than ‘insiders’ giving away all its trade secrets? The demise of the book deal for @GSElevator’s John Lefevre was gleefully celebrated by the bank’s...
View ArticleSix things JPMorgan’s results communicate about banking jobs this Easter
It’s JPMorgan (JPM) results day. As ever, the U.S. bank is the first to report. It’s first quarter dashboard is here. If you’re disinclined to scrutinize the presentations and reports, this is what you...
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Adrenaline junkie now offering Goldman bankers lessons on risk
Remember Felix Baumgartner? He’s the guy who jumped 24 miles to earth from space in return for a lot of sponsorship from Red Bull. Known as ‘Fearless Felix’, his previous acts of bravery included...
View ArticleFitness, Schlaf und Meditation: Die Kunst, ein besserer Finanzprofi zu werden
Den meisten Fonds- und Asset Managern liegt der Gedanke fern, sich wie Spitzensportler professionell coachen zu lassen. Laut Experten machen in Großbritannien beispielsweise gerade einmal 1 bis 3...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: When to quit your banking job, how to avoid being rejected by...
Spiralling high frequency trading pay, advice on how to move on after five years in the same firm and other top stories you may have missed on eFinancialCareers over the past seven days. Six signs you...
View ArticleNine wonderful ways that Chinese banks try to retain staff
Mainland Chinese and local Hong Kong banks have been expanding in Hong Kong for several years, picking up talent as Western banks made redundancies and cut back recruitment. But with some global...
View ArticleSix conseils pour décrocher un job en finance pour lequel vous n’êtes pas a...
Les établissements financiers sont invités par les cabinets de recrutement à se montrer plus flexibles dans l’examen des candidatures. Après leur avoir soumis pendant des années des profils 100% en...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Citi joins FICC cull as Jamie Dimon says just a blip. How to...
Like Deutsche Bank, Citigroup is cutting jobs on the trading floor. The Wall Street Journal reports that the US bank has recently cut 200-300 jobs from its global markets business. After a difficult...
View ArticleDie 90 entscheidenden Sekunden eines Vorstellungsgesprächs
Falls man während eines MBAs tatsächlich etwas lernen sollte, dann zählt dazu sicher die optimale Vorbereitung eines Vorstellungsgesprächs. Denn daran arbeiten Business Schools unermüdlich –...
View ArticleThe 11 highest paid accounting in finance jobs globally
So you want to become an accountant working in banking and financial services? With around five years’ experience in accounting in finance, where in the world can you find the highest paid jobs and...
View ArticleNeuer Rekordanteil ausländischer Arbeitskräfte: Julius Bär ärgert sich über...
Auch wenn das mediale Echo nach der knappen Annahme der „Masseneinwanderungsinitiative“ der SVP ein wenig abgenommen hat, schwelt der Ärger unter Schweizer Bankern doch weiter. So zeigte sich Julius...
View ArticleSix signs you will be rejected when you apply for a job at Goldman Sachs (and...
It’s not easy to get a job at Goldman Sachs. As we reported earlier this month, the bank rejects 96% of applicants for its analyst (junior) positions and receives 43,000 applications each year. Most...
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These are the signs you should work for Citi instead of JPMorgan, or not
JPMorgan’s first quarter results were out last week. Today we have the Citigroup results, which were unleashed a few hours ago. JPMorgan’s results weren’t too hot: the U.S. bank suffered a 19% decline...
View ArticleJob Market Pulse: UK hedge fund hiring analysts, investment firm opens NYC...
In the latest hiring news round-up, Bank of America eyes growth in Europe, an investment firm opens a New York office and UBS goes on a wealth management hiring binge in Asia. Investment firm opens NYC...
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