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Would you work as a freelance investment banker for up to $300 an hour?
Working in M&A does not allow for much time out of the office. The hours are demanding, the work stressful and aside from attempting to manage your career, there’s little time out for any side...
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Barclays’ investment bank: no longer worth zero, but fast becoming 2nd tier?
Times are changing at Barclays investment bank. 7,000 people are losing their jobs. Ex-Citigroup M&A bankers are taking control. Compliance staff bearing certificates will be mentoring what remains...
View ArticleQuant careers vs. actuarial careers. Which are best?
If you’re mathematically gifted and are deliberating about a career in finance, you may be contemplating an actuarial career in the insurance industry. Or you may be contemplating a quant career in a...
View ArticleA guide to surviving and thriving in a private equity interview
For any junior banker contemplating a switch into private equity, digest these sobering statistics on your chances, courtesy of specialist recruiters. Every entry level role attracts some 300...
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Top bankers from target schools earn less. And other banking pay information
Wall Street Oasis (WSO), the investment banking and finance community site has unleashed its compensation survey data for 2014. Based upon thousands of entries from its thousands of registered users,...
View ArticleHow to ace an internship at Goldman Sachs
If you want a full-time position at Goldman Sachs, your best opportunity is to get accepted to their summer internship program. From there, you’ll need to impress both with your ability to do the job...
View ArticleWhy it’s now so difficult for private bankers to move from India to Singapore
In theory it’s a good example of candidate supply meeting employer demand: private bankers are being laid off in India at the same time as private banks in Singapore are expanding their teams which...
View ArticleWie Sie aus einem Praktikum bei der Deutschen Bank ein Übernahmeangebot...
Die Chance nach einem Praktikum bei einer Investmentbank in London ein Übernahmeangebot zu erhalten, liegt zwischen 60 bis 100 Prozent. Laut einem Praktikanten, der 2013 sein Praktikum in der...
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Morning Coffee: McKinsey’s advice for fixed income traders. How to build an...
What should you do if your fixed income trading career is going downhill? You don’t necessarily need to leave banking for a start-up. All you need is to be ruthlessly efficient at what you do. Or so...
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À Londres, qui paye le mieux : les banques américaines, japonaises ou...
Nous avions récemment découvert d’énormes écarts de rémunérations sur la place financière parisienne, avec des établissements bancaires de Tier 1 (BofA ML, Citi, CS, DB, GS, JP, MS, UBS) payant en...
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Hey! Espírito Santo’s investment bank is in ‘hiring mode’
Things are not going so great over at Portuguese bank Espírito Santo. Yesterday, shares were suspended after falling 19% due to ‘ongoing material difficulties‘ at the parent company. There have been...
View ArticleHedge fund quadruples pay after comparatively small rise in profits
Hedge funds, particularly those owned by partners and employees, tend to pay well when times are good – portioning out profits to those with a stake in the company. However, one fund based out of the...
View ArticleTwo firms that are hiring against the grain on Wall Street
The job market on Wall Street is rather difficult to describe in any uniform sense. There’s plenty of hiring happening in certain sectors and just as much firing happening in others. It’s interesting...
View ArticleMystery banker offers clandestine tips on launching a finance career
So you want a finance career? So you’ve sent in hundreds of applications, only to get nowhere and to spend the summer working in a bar and reading about how to convert an internship at Goldman Sachs if...
View ArticleLes comportements au bureau qui ont le don d’agacer les banquiers...
Tout le monde connaît dans son entourage un ou deux collègues dont le comportement tape sur les nerfs. Les banquiers d’affaires, eux, en connaissent paraît-il des dizaines. Nous avons demandé à...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Striking it rich in your 30s, the brutal life of a junior...
If you’ve missed the top stories on eFinancialCareers over the last seven days, take a moment over your weekend to acquaint yourself with advice and news that could benefit your finance career. How to...
View ArticleCareer challenges facing Aussie returnees from Asia and how to overcome them
You’re an Australian finance professionals who’s just completed a successful stint in Singapore or Hong Kong, having risen up the ranks of an international bank and taken on a regional role. You’re now...
View ArticleWo Finanzprofis vor ihrem 30. Geburtstag zum Managing Director avancieren
Wer seine Visitenkarte noch vor seinem 30. Geburtstag mit einem „Director-Titel“ schmücken möchte, sollte schleunigst nach China umziehen. Laut Headhunter Jason Tan von Being & Associates in...
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Morning Coffee: Where to find 8,500 finance jobs a month. When senior...
Where in the world can you find 8,500 new finance jobs in one month? Try the City of London. Recruitment firm Morgan McKinley thinks there were 8,490 jobs advertised in London in June, up from 7,410 in...
View ArticleAn honest account of working in the ‘promised land’ of private equity
Junior investment bankers are clamouring to get into private equity to escape the punishing, health destroying hours and get on a road to riches arguably no longer possible in the highly-regulated...
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