Pimco, Evercore, Citi’s growth plans taking shape
In the latest hiring roundup, Pimco and Evercore’s growth plans taking action, KKR embraces a new challenge and compliance hiring peaks, again. StanChart adding watchdogs Standard Chartered is in a bit...
View ArticleAufstieg gefällig? Wie Sie Ihren Chef zu einer Beförderung bewegen
Sommerzeit ist Urlaubszeit. Die geringere Arbeitsbelastung lässt Ihnen mehr Zeit, um die nächsten Karriereschritte anzupacken. Eine Möglichkeit besteht darin, Ihren Vorgesetzten von einer Beförderung...
View ArticleYes, you can move out of a back office finance job in Asia
Back-office professionals looking to leave their jobs for careers that are more interesting, better paid and less vulnerable to offshoring face a challenging task in Singapore and Hong Kong. Making the...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Earning $1m as an investment banker is now too much of a long...
Is working in investment banking worth it anymore? The eight years from 2000-2008, when it was relatively easy to earn seven figure bonuses and retire before you hit 35, are the anomalies. Bankers...
View ArticleWhy investment banks and hedge funds are still getting graduate recruitment...
Alexey Loganchuk glanced around the trading floor at JPMorgan after over five years at the bank and realised everyone was a little too similar. Investment banks’ ‘cookie cutter’ approach to recruiting...
View ArticleAareal Bank trotz Niedrigzinsen: Bei Tochterunternehmen fallen 35 bis 40...
Trotz der hartnäckigen Niedrigzinsphase konnte die Aareal Bank im zweiten Quartal ihren Vorsteuergewinn um 44 Prozent auf 65 Mio. Euro steigern. Im gesamten ersten Halbjahr summiert sich das Ergebnis...
View ArticleThe 11 most desirable skills in financial services now
One way of assessing how in demand your skill-sets are is to look at the number of job vacancies available against the competition for those roles. Another, less obvious, way to gauge your desirability...
View ArticleAus dem Tagebuch eines Wall Street-Praktikanten: Wie ich mein Arbeitszeugnis...
In dieser Woche habe ich meinen Vorgesetzten gebeten, mir ein Empfehlungsschreiben (also ein Arbeitszeugnis) zu verfassen. Es sagte mir umgehend, dass ich es mir gefälligst selbst schreiben sollte!...
View ArticleJPMorgan trading in the Maserati for a trusty Buick?
Park Avenue is an epic stretch of road. The businesses and residents that call it home tend to have one thing in common: prestige – a nice mix of money and power. Or at least that perception. Prestige...
View ArticleIntern diary: My boss told me to call every bank I was vaguely interested in...
I’m spending this summer interning at the wealth management division of a large US investment bank. This is the final installment of a weekly intern diary The last week of my internship at one of the...
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Why M&A bankers are undeserving and credit traders should earn $1m+
You’re a senior trader in a ‘leading investment bank’. Despite claims that it’s not really possible to earn millions in banking any more, you fully aspire to earn that. You still expect to be paid a...
View ArticleHow to recreate Bloomberg using Twitter
You’ve lost your job in banking. You’ve lost your access to Bloomberg. You’re suffering from near-terminal Bloomberg terminal deprivation and you really have no idea what’s going on in the world beyond...
View Article10 crucial cover letter mistakes made by candidates for banking jobs in...
Finance recruiters in Asia say they spend even less time looking at your cover letter than they do flicking through your resume. But while a cover letter won’t, on its own merits, convince a recruiter...
View ArticleIm Glanz der großen Namen: Welche Rolle spielen renommierte Arbeitgeber für...
Namen wie Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank oder UBS schmücken einen Lebenslauf ungemein. „Die Qualität der Unternehmen färbt auch auf die Arbeitsleistung der Mitarbeiter ab“, erläutert Headhunter und...
View ArticleComment les banques ciblent les talents de la fintech
Chaque année, les banques d’investissement dépensent des milliards dans de nouvelles technologies, pour cela payant des armées de développeurs, d’architectes et de project managers. Leur mission :...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Work 70 hours a week, earn £230k. Morgan Stanley’s hot...
If you want to earn £200k+, must you work a stupid number of hours? If you ask a mid-ranking M&A banker on a deal, he will probably say ‘yes.’ But there are jobs out there where an income of £200k+...
View ArticleHow long does it really take to pass CFA Level III?
Yesterday was CFA Level III results day. For the first time in a while, the pass rate actually increased: 54% of people passing the third and final exam, more than at any time since 2006, when the pass...
View Article5 questions you must never ask in an interview with Goldman Sachs
You happen to be attending an interview with Goldman Sachs. As a good and diligent candidate, you will know the importance of asking some questions of your own at the end of the interview process. How...
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The top 25 Masters in Finance for getting a job in investment banking
For every available graduate job in investment banking, there are over 40 applications. Goldman Sachs only hires 3% of those that apply for its analyst and associate schemes. It helps, therefore, to...
View ArticleFünf Fragen, die Sie niemals bei Goldman Sachs stellen dürfen
Jedes Vorstellungsgespräch gelangt irgendwann einmal an den Punkt, an dem auch die Bewerber Fragen stellen dürfen. Dies stellt eine Gelegenheit dar, sich als interessierten und engagierten Mitarbeiter...
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