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Morning Coffee: Ex-Goldman analyst gives horrified ex-colleagues plenty to...
Maybe Goldman Sachs bankers should be used to it. Although CEO Lloyd Blankfein rails against President Trump on Twitter, some former staff are less averse to the lure of contemporary right wing...
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Credit Suisse just hired an MD who was last seen at Haitong
Something seems to be afoot at Credit Suisse. Last week, the Swiss bank quietly parted company with Warwick Palmer, its head of G10 EM/FX spot trading who only worked there 12 months. Now, it’s hired...
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This top Morgan Stanley portfolio manager has just joined this $4bn hedge...
Morgan Stanley’s head of sovereign research in New York, Jens Nystedt, has left the Wall Street firm to return to the hedge fund world. Nystedt joined Morgan Stanley’s investment management division in...
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The new (cheap) universities for getting into J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs
If you want a job at a top investment bank in Europe, you’re probably thinking about attending one of the continent’s top universities for careers in finance – most of which seem to be located in the...
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KKR’s ex-head of private credit: Don’t go into private equity for the glamour
Erik Falk came over to the buy side late in his career. After spending over 16 years working in senior roles at both Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, he joined private equity giant KKR in 2008 and...
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Point72’s chief technology officer swaps one billionaire boss for another
Point72 Asset Management has just lost its chief technology officer, Chris Corrado, who has worked at the company for the best part of 16 years. Corrado, who was co-chief technology officer at SAC...
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Four unconventional techniques for getting a portfolio management job
The most common misperception in the investment management industry is that academic credentials are the rite of passage to becoming a portfolio manager. I earned all the top designations and licenses...
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Inside OCBC’s new Singapore hiring drive
OCBC is joining a growing list of banks ramping up their digital banking teams in Singapore, but it’s facing local skill shortages as it tries to hire. “We’re boosting our digital banking headcount,”...
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The only banking job in Hong Kong offering pay rises over 20%
Banks in Hong Kong are not typically offering pay rises of more than 20% to lure new recruits. In contrast to two years ago, salary increases for candidates moving between banks are now largely in the...
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Morning Coffee: The most important finance jobs you never even knew existed....
If you’re contemplating where in the world to situate your finance job, you might have your eye on North America – which is predicted to benefit from Brexit irrespective of the fitfulness of Trump, or...
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Andrea Orcel on the boringness of banking and rehoming staff
Andrea Orcel’s job doesn’t sound very exciting any more. In a Brexit breakfast discussion run by Financial News this morning, he complained that 60% of his job is now consumed by dealing with...
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This hot new private equity firm has been poaching from Goldman Sachs and...
It’s not just hedge funds run by star traders that are attracting recruits from big investment banks. A new private equity fund, set up by two former TPG executives, has been recruiting from Goldman...
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Why this Barclays MD quit banking to go back to the charity he worked for...
Kanna Kunchala spent over 17 years in investment banking, as a managing director at both Goldman Sachs and Barclays investment bank across London and New York, but this was never part of the plan....
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What to ask at European banking interviews now, by Deutsche Bank
We’re approaching the end of year dead-zone for banking interviews involving senior and front office positions, but this doesn’t mean we’re in an interviewing interregnum. Even now, there are graduate...
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Credit Suisse trading head swaps banking for tiny asset manager run by former...
The head of a major trading unit at Credit Suisse in London has just signed up to a small investment manager started by the bank’s former CEO of Asia-Pacific, Osama Abbasi. Benjamin Leung, the head of...
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J.P. Morgan’s commodities CEO who left for AI start-up: Don’t go into banking...
Catherine Flax worked her way to the top of the ladder (or close to it) in banking, climbing to the role of CEO of global commodities for Europe, the Middle East and Asia and then the chief marketing...
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Bluecrest said to lose its top equities trader in London
Bluecrest Capital Management, the former hedge fund which became a family office nearly two years ago is understood to have parted company with one of its most senior equities traders in London....
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UBS Singapore has just hired a senior salesman in FICC rebuild
UBS has hired a senior FX salesman in Singapore, in a sign that its FICC rebuild is spreading to Asia. Rene Schwarzl joined UBS earlier this month as an executive director in FX global macro sales,...
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Here’s what your risk salary and bonus should be in Hong Kong
The risk management job market in Hong Kong remains comparatively buoyant, fulled by risk professionals moving between banks about every two years. Banks are also adding new headcount, particularly in...
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Morning Coffee: UBS is thinking about its bankers’ lifestyle. The only place...
Andrea Orcel, the president of UBS’s investment bank, says that the bank is listening to its employees. While most large investment banks have announced plans for a new EU hub as the UK prepares to...
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