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Why you’ll love and hate life at PwC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG
The Big Four accounting firms are often lumped together in the minds of candidates. All are prestigious. All employ and hire tens of thousands of people each year. But this doesn’t mean each Big Four...
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Seven candidate mistakes that Asian banking recruiters really hate
If you’re looking for a banking job in Asia, or if you’re just keeping in touch with recruiters in case an opportunity arises, it pays to play by recruiters’ own rules. What should you avoid saying or...
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Morning Coffee: Hedge fund partner rebels against Trump-supporting boss....
If you get a call from your boss where he accuses you of calling him a white supremacist you know you need to worry. Few presidential campaigns have split America, and America’s workplace than Trump’s...
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The former CEO of Russell Investments has started his own firm and is hiring...
Pascal Duval, the former CEO of Russell Investments’ European operation who quit in September last year, has launched his own firm and is hiring cheap young talent to get it off the ground....
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Ex-Morgan Stanley, Goldman juniors hiring London bankers in Asia
Patrick Lynch left his associate trading job at Morgan Stanley in London to join a fast-growing start-up three years ago. This move is now so common that it’s bordering on cliché, but Lynch is not a...
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Barclays’ bankers’ bonus woes contrast with (muted) joy at UBS and Credit Suisse
Is there no fairness in this world? Yesterday, Barclays’ investment bank announced some very healthy results, including a 14% increase in full year profits, but its London bankers are complaining of...
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“Can senior bankers stop sending their CVs to private equity please?”
The leveraged finance divisions of investment banks have had a tough 12 months. Senior bankers, seemingly firmly ensconced on the sell-side, are now aching to make the move to a private equity firm. As...
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J.P. Morgan re-hires electronic trading tech guru at loftier title
J.P. Morgan has re-hired a senior technologist who jumped across to a managing director role at Deutsche Bank in New York nearly eight years ago. J.P. Morgan has just re-hired David Winig as a managing...
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If quants in banks are so hot, why aren’t they better paid?
Quants are it. While sales jobs in banks disappear and trading jobs are automated into mundanity, quants are the new thing. Banks are alert to the value of data, and quants are the alchemists who are...
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Nine ways to answer the worst job interview question in Asian banking
It’s a generic and predictable job interview question, but finance professionals in Hong Kong and Singapore are too often stumped by it: “Where do you see yourself in five years’ time?” The main...
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Asian asset managers should prepare now for a mid-career change, warns...
Your early achievements in the Asian asset management sector no longer provide any guarantee of longer-term career success, says a 16-year industry veteran. “Some of the jobs in traditional asset...
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Morning Coffee: The stars who earn $10k for a phone call. Deutsche wields the...
Investment banks have been chopping equity research headcount, but they’re still willing hire a star analyst when they’re available. The result of this is that the typical structure of a research team...
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One of Goldman’s most senior traders just retired post-bonus
If you work for Goldman Sachs, your 2016 bonus is pretty much in the bank. You’re therefore free to find somewhere else to work, or to leave banking and do something entirely different. Guy Saidenberg,...
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Goldman Sachs and HSBC have tapped Facebook and AOL for these hot jobs
It’s no secret that banks are in battle with large technology firms for talent, but both Goldman Sachs and HSBC have just managed to poach senior technologists who have worked for Facebook and AOL for...
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Brexit’s enhanced equivalence isn’t dead. It was never alive
If you’re already feeling pessimistic about the City of London’s future after Brexit, you might be feeling even more so following the Financial Times’ sighting of the EU’s “staff working document” on...
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The absolutely perfect resume for private equity
Looking for a job in private equity? Good luck: for every available role, just 10% of the on average 300 applications make the shortlist. And you have to make an impression with your resume quickly –...
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Abnormally popular U.S. equities banker is leaving Barclays
One of the most senior and popular managing directors in Barclays’ U.S. equities business is quitting. Johnny Wu had worked for Barclays for 12 years and is now off in search of, “new challenges that...
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After getting fed up with financial services, this ex-UBS PM found a real...
Most people assume that starting a hedge fund is a path to getting rich, and getting scooped up by a big international bank like UBS sounds even better, but it took leaving finance altogether for Ravi...
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One of Asia’s most in-demand jobs is crying out for new candidates, says...
‘Beware…here come the auditors!’ is a saying often heard echoing through corridors of banks here in Asia and around the globe. Internal audit is often seen as the ‘dark side’, a bunch of people set to...
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The best European banks to work for on Wall Street, by Deutsche Bank
With the U.S. economy firing-up thanks to Trump’s spending plans and U.S. trading revenues increasing thanks to anticipated rate rises, European banks can be expected to go for growth in the U.S. in...
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