Ex-maths tutor becomes latest man to migrate to Switzerland with Brevan Howard
Brevan Howard is moving people to Geneva. We know this because the hedge fund’s recently filed annual return revealed a longish list of Swiss émigrés, while the number of registered employees working...
View ArticleJapanese banks may actually want to hire you – and you may want the job
For years, if you wanted a top job at a Japanese bank you needed to be two things: a man and Japanese. Over the last year in particular, that narrative has begun to change. Japanese banks are hiring...
View ArticleWhy London bankers on £250k ($415k) are poor, redux
If you’re a banker in London, something very bad has happened to your disposable post-housing income over the past decade. Data from the UK Land Registry reveals that a residence purchased in...
View ArticleThe do’s and don’ts of being a Wall Street trader
This summer, Wall Street trader-turned-standup-comedian Raj Mahal has given us a window into what it’s like to be a rookie trader, plus tips on spotting the difference between a European and American...
View ArticleSechs Tipps, wie Sie sich bei einem Recruiter einschmeicheln
Bevor Beecher Tuttle bei eFinancialCareers als New York-Korrespondent anfing, war er einige Jahre als Recruiter tätig. Hier seine Tipps für den Umgang mit Personalvermittlern. Sagen Sie dem Recruiter,...
View ArticleBankers should be at Burning Man. Or not
Is Frank Quattrone at Burning Man? Frank should be. His moustache would fit well with the desert hipsters. The legendary tech banker might also find some work there. As has been widely...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Citi belatedly pays allowances to 600 people....
Goodish news for 600 bankers at Citigroup. Nearly 10 months after the implementation of the European Union’s 100% cap on bonuses, the Financial Times reports that the US bank has decided to follow in...
View ArticleFive finance jobs that recruitment agencies in Singapore and Hong Kong find...
Many finance job functions in Asia are suffering from a shortage of available talent – compliance officers and corporate-banking relationship managers chief among then. But while these generalist roles...
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Das ultimative Ranking: Welche Schweizer Bank am besten zahlt (Update)
Die Genfer Privatbanken Pictet, Lombard Odier und Mirabaud haben 200 Jahre strikte Verschwiegenheit über ihre Geschäftszahlen gewahrt. Doch diese Ära endete in der vergangenen Woche, in der die...
View ArticleAsset managers’ graduate recruitment numbers on the rise
Buy-side firms are increasing their focus on junior recruitment and upping their graduate intakes for 2014 as they take advantage of improved revenues and the diminished appeal of working in investment...
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Hausse salariale en 2014 : ceux qui tirent leur épingle du jeu
Outre-manche, les salariés de l’industrie financière ont retrouvé le sourire : leur bonus, en hausse en moyenne de 5,5% cette année, a progressé deux fois plus vite que dans le reste de l’économie...
View ArticleFür eine Karriere bei Pimco ist ein Top-MBA fast schon Pflicht – auch in...
Viele Investmentbanken hegen ein elitäres Selbstbild. Doch Pimco, einer der weltgrößten Vermögensverwalter, vermag dies noch zu toppen. Ende Juni wies die Allianz-Tochter Assets under Management von...
View ArticleThe financial services firm that absolutely insists on an MBA from a top...
Career options for MBAs in the financial sector are becoming increasingly limited as investment banks pull back from their on-campus associate recruitment programmes. However, there’s one company on...
View ArticleNomura hires new equity derivatives head
Nomura has continued its senior hiring spree in London with the recruitment of a Bear Stearns veteran and former global head of equity derivatives at Standard Chartered. Ed Steele joined Nomura’s...
View ArticleThe landmark deal generating finance jobs in Hong Kong
A landmark new scheme launching next month, which gives Hong Kong and Shanghai investors the ability to buy shares in each other’s stock exchanges, is set to generate jobs at brokerages in both cities....
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Où l’emploi en banque d’investissement agonise et où il prospère…
Le pire des suppressions d’emplois dans la banque d’investissement est-il derrière nous ? Malgré la baisse marquée des revenus de trading dans les activités FICC (taux, changes et matières premières),...
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Deutsche Bank just issued these charts telling you where to work in sales and...
Thinking of getting a sales job or a trading job in an investment bank? Wondering which products you should specialize in according to the climate in terms of volatility, interest rates, gross domestic...
View ArticleFinance professionals in Asia fear “slacker” tag if they ask about work-life...
An increasing number of finance professionals in Asia are quizzing agency recruiters about whether the banking jobs they are applying for offer a reasonable work-life balance. This is often as far as...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Cantor shows how to get the best jobs in banking. Outrageous...
Moelis & Co is hiring. The M&A boutique which went public earlier this year has been recruiting all sorts of senior bankers from all sorts of places like Credit Suisse, Bank of America and...
View ArticleDer perfekte Investment Banking-Lebenslauf
Der absolut perfekte Lebenslauf im Front Office einer Investmentbank… 1. … verfügt über ein makelloses Studium Gute Noten von einer einschlägig renommierten Hochschule stellen zwar keine hinreichende,...
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