Finance jobs today: Filling up with environmental warriors and social justice...
It’s been going on for a while, but it’s only recently become a big thing among young people who want jobs in banking. It’s not enough to have a perfect CV with an immaculate academic record and a...
View ArticleGraduate and internship application deadlines for banks in Singapore and Hong...
If you’re after a graduate job or summer internship at a global bank in Singapore or Hong Kong in 2015, you generally have only a few more weeks (or in some cases, days) in which to apply. As the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Seems Goldman Sachs intends to hire 3,600 people here....
Where is Goldman Sachs hiring? If you’ve been paying attention to presentations by CEO Lloyd Blankfein and COO Gary Cohn, you’ll already know the answer: Goldman Sachs is hiring in ‘high value...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley’s commodities trading chief signs up to Citadel
Morgan Stanley may be building its commodities business again, after a 10% headcount cull last year, but it’s still prone to losing senior traders to hedge funds. Ben Ansellem, who was promoted to head...
View ArticleTrading jobs: High pay for Deutsche Bank rates traders quite standard
Remember those rates traders at Deutsche Bank? Those managing directors (MDs) who were earning £878k to £3m ($1.4m to $6.5m)? And those junior rates traders who were earning around £280k ($457k)? It...
View ArticleCarmen Segarra’s Goldman Sachs Lesson: Buy This Spy Pen
Carmen Segarra, the ex-Federal Reserve examiner who spent seven months working inside Goldman on behalf of the Fed, has provided a helpful lesson for anyone working in banking who is worried about a)...
View ArticleThe real reasons Ivy Leaguers flock to Wall Street
Best-selling author Michael Lewis, the scribe of hits like “Moneyball,” “Flash Boys,” and “Liar’s Poker,” just penned an eye-opening op-ed on Wall Street and what it does to young bankers. A former...
View ArticleWant to work with Bill Gross at Janus Capital? You’ll need this
Janus Capital has hired Bill Gross from Pimco. Cue pandemonium. Cue a 40% increase in Janus Capital’s share price. Cue recriminations over the huge fund outflows Gross presided over whilst at Pimco....
View ArticleThe 10 most salacious things bankers have done this year
When bankers slip up, they tend to make big headlines. The New York Post and the Guardian practically make a living off detailing the trials and tribulations of the 1%. Last year, we had a tired German...
View ArticleStudent finance careers events and competitions for the week ahead
Are you a student who wants to work in finance? Now’s the time for you to hone your pitch. – Banks everywhere are accepting applications (we have a Singapore/Hong Kong deadlines timetable here and a...
View ArticleDo jobs at Google and Facebook offer bigger salaries than investment banks?
Forget the fact that investment banks are Googlising their offices and shaking up their tech teams to include Agile working practices and innovation hubs to compete with start-ups and large IT firms,...
View ArticleThe hottest M&A shop in the U.S. is a Canadian bank
When the financial crisis hit, every bank in the world took some share of the punishment. Still, some came out smelling better than others. Unlike many U.S. banks, which were leveraged up to their...
View ArticleWhen bankers don’t retire at 40. Or even 50
Bill Gross is the new model for anti-ageist finance professionals. Aged 70 and worth $2bn, Gross is still working. He’s got a new job has made no mention of the ‘r’ word. Investment banking...
View ArticleHow to get a graduate-level risk management job in Singapore or Hong Kong
The employment market for risk management jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong is buoyant and has been for the past five years. But for graduates, clinching a junior risk job is far from straight forward –...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Barclays traders banned from debauched nights out. MBAs feel...
When you get beyond the money, being a trader at an investment bank is a bit of a slog. You have to get up early and you might lose your job to an electronic trading system. But these negatives have...
View ArticleHow to get an entry level job in asset management
Asset managers invest money on behalf of their clients – including pension funds, institutional investors, retail investors, insurance companies and others – with a view to making it grow over the long...
View ArticleErnst & Young to hire over 15,000 in 2015
Ernst & Young plans to significantly increase US hiring in the coming year, with a particular focus on advisory and assurance. The Big Four firm told us that it expects to bring on roughly 6,500...
View ArticleAdvice for bankers changing careers in their 40s
Like it or not, 40 is still a watershed age in banking. 40 is the age at which ageism kicks in. 40 is also the age at which bankers and traders who’ve had successful careers start casting about for...
View ArticleFrom banking to baking: “People are jumping out of investment banking at an...
Earlier this year, after ten years working for JPMorgan in New York, Mark Franczyk bit the bullet and quit investment banking to follow his passion and learn pastry arts. From banking to baking, from...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Has Bill Gross saved trading jobs, bonuses? Young bankers...
At the risk of inflating a whole messianic-industrial complex in the mind of William Gross of Janus Capital, it’s worth asking whether, by quitting Pimco unexpectedly only a few weeks ago, he might...
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