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The 11 worst career decisions that junior bankers make
Everyone makes blunders early on in their career, even they eventually end up at the top. Here are the most common lapses in judgement and just plain-old poor decisions that junior bankers make. 1....
View ArticleI survived automation on the trading floor, here’s how you can too
I used to travel to China regularly. During small talk over the inevitable elaborate banquet I was always asked how many children I had. When I replied that I had three boys, my interlocutor would...
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Perella Weinberg said to pay giant bonuses to London juniors
Wild excitement at Perella Weinberg! We understand that the M&A boutique has given London staff their 2016 bonus numbers and that they’re a) huge and b) the bonuses are being paid entirely in cash....
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Four questions to ask in interviews with UBS’s investment bank
Has UBS got a problem? Chirantan Barua at Bernstein Research thinks so. In light of last week’s miserable results from the Swiss bank, Barua has reiterated his underperform rating on UBS’s stock,...
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ANZ employees in Hong Kong: what actually happened to them?
Last year saw scores of staff leave ANZ in Hong Kong – some of their own accord, others because of layoffs and the sale of the firm’s Asian retail and wealth unit to DBS. CEO Shayne Elliott, who took...
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Your next Asian banking job isn’t even advertised. Here’s how to uncover it
If you’re after a banking job in Hong Kong or Singapore, your search is unlikely to be straightforward. It’s not just that there’s a comparatively small supply of vacancies this bonus season, it’s also...
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Morning Coffee: A warning to the 28 year-old bankers without a plan. Deutsche...
Beware the danger of working in finance without any heed of what you really want to do with your life. This is the warning from Phil Page, a man who retired from the City of London aged just 40 after...
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Ex-Goldman Sachs equity researcher makes triumphant return as M&A MD
Goldman Sachs has hired back its former head of insurance equity research five years after he departed to reinvent himself in M&A at a smaller investment bank. Johnny Vo left Goldman Sachs in 2011...
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Deutsche Bank’s dreadful year, and what happens next
Today is Deutsche Bank’s results day. Shares in the bank are down 6% since it divulged a €1.9bn net loss in the fourth quarter of 2016, which isn’t great since Deutsche’s most prized staff now need a...
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BNP Paribas poaches from consultant for this hot senior U.S. tech role
Investment banks are struggling to hire senior information security professionals, and continue to turn to other sectors for expertise as well as fighting for the top people within competitor firms....
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How to nail the ‘walk me through your resume’ interview question
You know it’s probably coming. In 90% of job interviews, the hiring manager or HR executive will say “Why don’t you walk me through your resume” as an ice-breaker. It gives the interviewer an...
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RBC Capital Markets pinched Morgan Stanley’s top quant
Quants are taking over the world. While traders lose their lunch, quanty-stratty types are coming out of their IDEs and into the multiverse. Watch Marty Chavez go at Goldman Sachs. Watch Elisha Wiesel...
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What’s happening with Big Four professional services firms’ recruitment in...
The on-cycle recruitment efforts of the Big Four professional services and audit firms – PwC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG – tend to be predictable, focusing on undergraduate and graduate students to fill...
View ArticleAsian finance students already panicking about 2018 jobs
The Year of the Rooster has only just begun, but some finance students in Asia are already worrying about whether investment banks will be doing less graduate hiring for 2018. These emerging concerns...
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Stark jobs warning from senior Singapore banking techie: don’t become a...
Advances in financial technology aren’t just jeopardising jobs in functions like trading and operations – they’re increasingly putting the technologists themselves in the firing line, says a leading...
View ArticleHow ESSEC’s Singapore Master in Finance gives your career the “cutting edge”
Ask Professor Sridhar Arcot what he enjoys most about teaching on ESSEC’s Master in Finance programme and you might be surprised to hear the answer. “I love the way the academic research that my...
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Morning Coffee: The real reason why investment bankers quit. Hedge fund...
Even though investment banks claim to be making efforts to improve work/life balance, hours remain excessive and this is causing a lot of stress in the sector. Senior investment bankers are stressed,...
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Point72’s newest recruit shows how hard it is to get a junior hedge fund job now
Outside of its highly-contested graduate programme, what does it take to get a junior job at Steve Cohen’s hedge fund-cum-family office Point72 Asset Management? Point72 is a proponent of the so-called...
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Top macro hedge fund manager quits Zug for London
He’s back. Alessandro Cipollini has seemingly decided that two years in the sleepy town of Zug, Switzerland, are enough for any man. As of this month, he’s in London again. A Cambridge and Bocconi...
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I quit investment banking for fashion because of office politics. Months...
As far as strokes of luck go, Beyoncé modelling one of your products just months after quitting banking to launch a fashion label is a pretty big one. But Anoo Rehncy, co-founder of A Black and White...
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