The disquiet at Deutsche goes much deeper than coming FICC layoffs
Deutsche Bank is making redundancies. The German bank hasn’t officially commented about the layoffs (and declined to comment for this article), but is expected to dismiss 500 investment bankers over...
View ArticleHow bankers’ children are stopping bankers shifting to jobs in Hong Kong
The children of senior bankers are hampering their parents’ plans to relocate to Hong Kong. When global banks in Hong Kong want to hire or transfer overseas-based candidates who have children, a...
View ArticleGestion de carrière : les 3 freins à lever pour les jeunes financiers
Les rencontres avec les professionnels de la Finance permettent de réaliser à quel point le monde de la finance est émaillé de carrières atypiques. D’ailleurs, la crise a bel et bien clôturé l’époque...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Daughter of $100m finance exec produces haunting list of...
So you thought banking had become a nicer place to work following all those well-publicized efforts to reduce young bankers’ working hours? How wrong you were. As widely predicted by everyone with any...
View ArticleEx-Clive Capital CIO wunderkind joins Moore Capital Management
Moore Capital has hired Tristan Almada, the 28-year-old former co-CIO of Taurosso Capital, the in-house hedge fund of now-defunct commodity fund Clive Capital. Louis Bacon’s $12.1bn hedge fund seems to...
View ArticleDVFA greift CFA an: Ist der neue Applied Investment Manager besser als Claritas?
Die Rivalität zwischen CFA Society und DVFA geht in die nächste Runde. Nachdem die CFA Society mit ihrer neuen Kurzqualifikation Claritas sich gezielt an das Backoffice richtet, legt die DVFA nach. Am...
View ArticleWhat we’ve learned recently about top-level pay in the insurance industry
Guess what? Insurance companies are big payers. Stephen Hester isn’t the only UK-based insurance professional making big money. The Prudential’s Richard Woolnough earns more ($29m) than the bosses of...
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Meet the new ‘insider trader’ gently mocking the City
Is there anything the financial sector fears more than ‘insiders’ giving away all its trade secrets? The demise of the book deal for @GSElevator’s John Lefevre was gleefully celebrated by the bank’s...
View ArticleSix things JPMorgan’s results communicate about banking jobs this Easter
It’s JPMorgan (JPM) results day. As ever, the U.S. bank is the first to report. It’s first quarter dashboard is here. If you’re disinclined to scrutinize the presentations and reports, this is what you...
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Adrenaline junkie now offering Goldman bankers lessons on risk
Remember Felix Baumgartner? He’s the guy who jumped 24 miles to earth from space in return for a lot of sponsorship from Red Bull. Known as ‘Fearless Felix’, his previous acts of bravery included...
View ArticleFitness, Schlaf und Meditation: Die Kunst, ein besserer Finanzprofi zu werden
Den meisten Fonds- und Asset Managern liegt der Gedanke fern, sich wie Spitzensportler professionell coachen zu lassen. Laut Experten machen in Großbritannien beispielsweise gerade einmal 1 bis 3...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: When to quit your banking job, how to avoid being rejected by...
Spiralling high frequency trading pay, advice on how to move on after five years in the same firm and other top stories you may have missed on eFinancialCareers over the past seven days. Six signs you...
View ArticleNine wonderful ways that Chinese banks try to retain staff
Mainland Chinese and local Hong Kong banks have been expanding in Hong Kong for several years, picking up talent as Western banks made redundancies and cut back recruitment. But with some global...
View ArticleTen types of candidates who will always fail to get an expat banking job in Asia
It’s tough to get a banking job in Asia these days unless you already have Asian experience – banks in Hong Kong and Singapore want to hire people with mainland Chinese and Southeast Asian networks...
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Morning Coffee: BAML hiring juniors in record numbers. Sexiest banker in...
Bank of America is hiring for its markets division. In the past few months, it’s brought on Michele Foresti from Deutsche as head of its fixed income trading business, along with Tom Klocker from UBS...
View ArticleFive new hedge funds and private equity firms that may hire you
In the search for new job opportunities it pays to keep an eye on the new companies being launched by former senior investment bankers, traders and hedge fund professionals. Over the last two months,...
View ArticleFall Anshu Jain: Was machen, wenn der Aufsichtsrat den eigenen Nachfolger sucht?
Zeitungsente oder Wahrheit? Diese Frage stellt sich bei dem jüngsten Bericht des Manager Magazins über die vermeintliche Nachfolgesuche für den Deutsche Bank Co-Vorstand Anshu Jain. Demnach habe sich...
View ArticleTax day leaves a burr under Wall Street’s saddle
It’s likely been a tough week for Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein and hundreds of other higher-ups on Wall Street. And no, not because it’s been a lousy first quarter earnings season. The top 1% had to...
View ArticleCiti’s raid on BAML’s equity derivatives business finally paying off
Remember late 2012/early 2013? All those months ago, Citigroup indulged in some equity derivatives hiring. It recruited Lionel Fournier from Bank of America as its EMEA head of equity derivatives...
View ArticleBAD NEWS: Morgan Stanley massively increases investment bank’s profits, cuts pay
If you were having doubts that the era of high-paying, free-wheeling, hot-trotting, big-swinging investment bankers is over, Morgan Stanley is here to suppress them. The US investment bank has just...
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