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The jobs you’ll most likely get with CFA qualifications. And the companies...
The CFA exams are over. Assuming you’re in the minority of people who turn out to have passed when results are made available in a few months’ time, you might be feeling optimistic about your career...
View ArticleWinton Capital Management: Pay, profits and headcount surges
Winton Capital Management, the quantitative hedge fund with expansion ambitions to hire 100 staff and eventually transform itself into a fund management company, has nearly doubled profits, bolstered...
View ArticleAsset managers: tech companies are coming for your jobs
When you think asset management, you may conjure up thoughts of Blackrock, Fidelity or Pimco. Your kids, on the other hand, are likely to consider other names: Apple, Google and maybe even Wal-Mart. A...
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Wie Banker rund um den Globus ausbrennen
Die Finanzbranche ist dafür berüchtigt, ihren Nachwuchs zu verschleißen. Welcher andere Sektor heuert Tausende von Absolventen an, lässt diese 80 bis 100 Stunden in der Woche arbeiten und hinterlässt...
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Complain as they may, bankers don’t quit over long hours
Despite all the recent rhetoric, it appears that grueling working hours aren’t the main reason bankers wave the white flag. Rather, it’s all the dead ends that they encounter in their career path that...
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Male bankers more likely to crave money, power in new role
When you ask a U.S. banker with itchy feet what they’re looking for a new job, the answer you’re most likely to receive is money and power. The chances are better, however, if that person is a man....
View ArticleActually, it’s not impossible to combine a career in the City with a...
As we reported yesterday, Jefferies has hired Dominic Squire. Dominic is a former RBS managing director who left banking in April 2012 to run, ‘Plymouth Boat Trips’, a company that offers boat fishing...
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Is internal mobility a myth in the finance sector?
Financial services may be a large, global industry offering a plethora of radically different roles, but employers in the sector aren’t making it easy for staff to change job functions or locations....
View ArticleIKB veröffentlicht Jahresabschluss: Lohnt sich die Arbeit bei dem...
Mit der Schräglage der IKB kam die Finanzkrise 2007 in Deutschland an. Mittlerweile ist der Mittelstandsfinanzierer an den Finanzinvestor Lone Star verkauft und den Neuanfang gewagt worden. Damit...
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Les métiers qui recruteront le plus dans 5 ans dans l’assurance
L’Observatoire de l’Evolution des Métiers de l’Assurance vient de produire un nouveau Baromètre prospectif. Sans surprise, les évolutions sociétales et économiques, la révolution digitale,...
View ArticleCapula portfolio manager quits London, starts hedge fund in New York
Gei Lin, a macro portfolio manager at Capula Investment Management, has left the firm’s London office and returned to New York to launch his own hedge fund. Lin moved to London in July 2012 to take the...
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Schweizer Finanzaufsicht lässt 212.000 Franken für Mitarbeiter springen
Oftmals wird den Regulierungsbehörden vorgeworfen, nicht genügend zu zahlen. Das schlecht bezahlte Aufsichtspersonal könne kaum mit den hochbezahlten Bankern mithalten, heißt es. Doch zumindest die...
View ArticleFurther eruption of post-bonus departures at Nomura in London
People are quitting Nomura’s London office. This may have something to do with the fact that the Japanese bank paid its bonuses in mid-May. According to headhunters, those bonuses were not especially...
View ArticleHalf your office is probably participating in insider trading
Well, maybe that’s a slight overreaction. But the practice is likely much more widespread than anyone had previously thought. An eye-opening new study from professors at NYU Stern and McGill University...
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Five things I think I’ve learned from living across from a bank
About a month ago, I moved from the financial district in lower Manhattan to the west side of the island. It just so happens I moved directly across from the entrance to Citigroup’s new downtown...
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Les meilleurs brokers et asset managers où travailler en France et en Europe
Les financiers s’amusent souvent des classements et autres league tables, font mine de ne pas les prendre au sérieux, les tournent en dérision… Une sorte de code d’humour dans la profession....
View ArticleA banking intern’s guide to pulling all-nighters
In theory, banks are going easy on their interns this summer. In reality, life as an intern can still be tough. As an intern, you still ought to stay later than most people and you still might be...
View ArticleThe second-tier banks now offering stable careers in Asia
The attraction of so-called second-tier banks is on the rise in Asia, as finance professionals increasingly seek stable employers offering career-progression opportunities. “There is no doubt that the...
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Wo CFA-Absolventen die besten Chancen haben
Die Teilnehmer an den jüngsten CFA-Examen sollten sich mittlerweile vom Prüfungsstress erholt haben. Falls Sie tatsächlich zu der Minderheit der Glücklichen zählen, die in naheliegender Zukunft...
View ArticleNo, banks still won’t hire junior analysts on a contract basis
It’s a good idea that keeps cropping up. But just because it’s a good idea, that doesn’t mean banks are going to go with it. ‘Analyst Pool’ the ‘virtual investment bank staffed by freelancers’ has been...
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