Morning Coffee: JPMorgan pays £400k to hire ex-girlfriend of Ed Balls....
JPMorgan has been expanding its asset management division: it hired 1,400 people in the 12 months to June 2013. Now JPMorgan’s asset management business has hired one more person: Stephanie Flanders,...
View Article100-Stunden-Woche und fünf Urlaubstage: Willkommen im Leben eines...
Die „Prinzlinge“ mögen im Büro einschweben, wann immer es ihnen gefällt. Dabei handelt es sich um die Kinder hoher chinesischer Funktionäre. Doch das Leben der übrigen Banker sieht im Reich der Mitte...
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Twitter : les banquiers français sont-ils technophobes ?
L’introduction en bourse de Twitter à l’automne, probablement au NYSE, promet d’être l’évènement de l’automne, alors que les premières estimations pour sa valorisation tablent sur plus de 9 milliards...
View ArticleWhere the hiring is in the happy world of fund management
While investment bankers trudge to work under a cloud of dissatisfaction and the ever-present threat of redundancies, asset managers stroll to the office with a spring in their step, safe in the...
View ArticleDangerous questions to ask when you interview at Barclays, BNP, RBS, UBS and...
Are you interviewing at a major European bank? Do want a set of ready-made awkward questions to ask concerning the strategy and solidity of your prospective institution? You are in luck. Analysts at...
View ArticleQuant hedge fund more than doubles profits – and pay – before horror show summer
Cantab Capital has had a disastrous summer – with its flagship fund, Aristarchus, posting its worst ever loss of 14.2% in June and leaking $4bn for the year to September (or 27.7% in the red). Its...
View ArticleWhy hedge funds hate Yellen (more than a boy-girl thing)
Without even playing the gender card, it’s easy to see why hedge funds want anyone but frontrunner Janet Yellen to head the Fed: she’s never served on corporate boards, raked in big bucks to speak at...
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The big yachts of big bankers, or not
This week was the week of the Monaco Yacht Show. It was also the week when Ed Miliband, leader of the British Labour Party, used a yacht analogy to complain about the enrichment of the 1%. “They used...
View ArticleWie Sie aus Ihrem Chef eine Gehaltserhöhung herausschlagen
Trotz des kleinen deutschen Wirtschaftswunders knausern die meisten Arbeitgeber, sobald das Thema Gehaltserhöhung zur Sprache kommt. Ein besonderes Problem stellt dies für über- und außertarifliche...
View Article12 tips for getting a job when you have ‘too much experience’
There is no question that cost-cutting and redundancies have been more detrimental to senior staff than junior-level bankers. Not only are they an easier target – due to their high price tag – but it’s...
View ArticleHorrific state of banker re-employment: only 30% are getting new jobs
If you lose your job in banking, you may need to resign yourself to running a delicatessen, or a fish farm or a microbrewery or a custom-fit condom company, because you probably won’t get another job...
View ArticleZwölf Gründe, wieso Banker eine Zweitkarriere als Headhunter starten
Falls Sie Banker sind und sich nach einem neuen Job umschauen, dann haben viele Headhunter ein gutes Verständnis für Ihre Situation. Dafür gibt es auch einen guten Grund: Viele Personalvermittler haben...
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Sectors explained: Graduate jobs in Sales & Trading
Sales & Trading The wheeler dealers working the secondary markets Every day, millions of financial products are bought and sold in the secondary markets where traders and salespeople in investment...
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How to make money out of Goldman Sachs bankers’ favourite shoes
It is a known fact that Goldman bankers like to wear Salvatore Ferragamo loafers (cost, around £309). Yesterday, the Salvatore Ferragamo Group announced its results for the first nine months of 2013....
View ArticleEnter our finance interview questions competition
Have you interviewed for a student role at an investment bank, fund management firm, hedge fund, insurance company or private equity fund this year? If so, we want to hear from you! We’re running a...
View ArticleMit welcher ganz speziellen Kompetenz Sie sofort einen hochbezahlten Job in...
Manche Fähigkeiten kann man erwerben, andere nicht. Zu letzteren zählt Schwyzerdütsch. Dabei handelt es sich um eine der wenigen Kompetenzen, die von Finanzdienstleistern händeringend gesucht werden –...
View ArticleRival banks well-positioned to poach Goldman staffers
Goldman Sachs has an impressive streak going when it comes to employee turnover, or the lack thereof, within its senior ranks. The streak is sure to be tested, though, following Wednesday’s appointment...
View ArticleAndrea Orcel’s wife had the perfect job for a banking spouse
If you work in banking and are trying to encourage your spouse to bring in a bit of extra money to compensate for falling compensation, you could follow the example of Andrea Orcel, the chief executive...
View Article25 personal interview questions you’ll need to know the answer to
In the past year, we’ve published several lists of real-life interview questions asked by banks and other financial firms. Some were aimed at prospective investment bankers, others were more general,...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Where front office hiring is happening; the new über-committed...
What have you missed in the fast-moving world of financial services recruitment? Here’s a round-up of the top stories on eFinancialCareers during the past week. The front office banking jobs that will...
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