Le cœur du 3ème hedge fund au monde bat désormais en Suisse
Brevan Howard, le discret mais néanmoins puissant hedge fund britannique avec ses 40 milliards de dollars d’actifs sous gestion, ce qui en fait le troisième plus gros hedge fund au monde, n’a plus...
View ArticleJPM, UBS, RBC hiring in London; Wells Fargo eyes global asset management push
In the latest hiring roundup, big banks eye London expansion, a massive oil fund needs more senior execs and Pimco won’t stop hiring in equities. JPM building London sales team J.P. Morgan is building...
View ArticleThe new bank to work for in Singapore if you want a career change
It’s a potentially lucrative career-change trend that we first spotted in July: private banks in Singapore are increasingly taking on “priority” bankers from the mass-affluent retail market because...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Goldman Sachs cutting at the top, bumping up at the bottom
Goldman Sachs decided to show its junior bankers some love by bumping up salaries by 20% in an attempt to convince top graduate talent not to jump for a job at a Silicon Valley (or at least work 100...
View ArticleWird Brevan Howard immer Schweizerischer?
Ursprünglich handelte es sich bei Brevan Howards Genfer Büro nur um eine kleine Außenstelle. Doch langsam mutiert die Niederlassung zu einem Front Office-Zenrum. Mittlerweile arbeitet nur noch eine...
View ArticleZahlt Pictet am besten? Erste Geschäftszahlen seit 209 Jahren
Ein Zeitalter der Diskretion geht zu Ende. Erstmals in ihrer 209jährigen Geschichte veröffentlichte Pictet am heutigen Dienstag (26. August) ihre Geschäftszahlen und die können sich sehen lassen:...
View ArticleQuants: The new risk takers of finance
Quant traders working in investment banking are not happy. Squeezed by regulations that curb investment banks’ prop-trading activities and by cost-cutting that means that pre-crisis compensation...
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Investment banks use honey, money and worry in attempt to retain juniors
Investment banks are using both the carrot and the stick to ensure that their junior talent doesn’t depart for rivals, hedge funds or private equity firms. U.S banks on Wall Street are raising base...
View ArticlePrivatkunden-Offensive geht weiter: Dekabank sucht 80 Vertriebsprofis
Die Dekabank bläst auch weiterhin zur Wachstumsinitiative. So will das „Wertpapierhaus“ der Sparkassengruppe bis Ende 2015 180 Mitarbeiter zur Vertriebsunterstützung der Sparkassen anheuern. Laut dem...
View Article15 finance firms that will be hiring in the final months of 2014
Now that the traditional summer lull is drawing to a close in the financial sector, it’s worth considering where the job options will lie for the remainder of the year. Here’s our pick of the firms...
View ArticleComment Wall Street chouchoute ses juniors
Les banques américaines sont aux petits soins avec leurs juniors. Affaibli par la crise, les plans sociaux et les scandales, voilà un peu plus d’un an que Wall Street déploie toutes sortes de...
View ArticleBain’s new strategy on diversifying its candidate pool
Banks and consulting firms no longer appear satisfied with just the best industry-focused talent. They want a more diverse candidate pool, and they’ve had to change their recruitment strategies as a...
View ArticleBanks in Hong Kong convert 60% of contractor jobs into permanent positions
While contractor jobs have traditionally been viewed as an unstable, undesirable career option in the Hong Kong finance sector, I think that candidates in the city are now starting to become more...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Inside the cut-throat world of hedge fund trading
Chris Rokos very rarely made a loss during his time at Brevan Howard. In fact, he made a combined $4bn for the hedge fund in the eight years prior to 2012, with one minor ‘blip’ (going $12m in the red...
View ArticleKarriere auf Zeit: Wie Sie als Interims-Manager glänzen
Vielleicht gönnt sich Ihr Chef einfach nur einen längeren Sommerurlaub oder Ihre Vorgesetzte weilt im Mutterschutz. Schnell wird aus einem gewöhnlichen Mitarbeiter ein Interimsmanager. Ein Team zu...
View ArticleThe essential skill that strikes fear into the hearts of investment bankers
Anyone who has sat through an investment banks’ earnings conference call or, god forbid, an awards ceremony, will know that public speaking is not the forte of most people in the industry. Despite...
View ArticleHSBC Trinkaus stellt 478 Mitarbeiter ein: Wachstumsinitiative drückt auf Gewinn
Die Wachstumsinitiative geht bei HSBC Trinkaus rasch voran. Laut einem Unternehmenssprecher habe die Bank im ersten Halbjahr 44 Prozent mehr Kredite als im Vorjahreszeitraum ausgereicht, während der...
View ArticleM&A bankers enjoying inversion marathon while it lasts
Inversion mergers, where large U.S. companies purchase smaller foreign firms and relocate overseas to avoid local tax rates, has been a hot topic in recent months, with President Obama publicly...
View ArticleThe new investment banking super-stars happen to work in IT
The chances are you may not have heard of most of the people at the top of the tree in investment banking technology and if they spoke in any detail about the specifics of their jobs you’d be...
View ArticleThe five best boutique consulting firms to work for
When it comes to employers of choice in consulting, nothing has changed in decades. Bain and McKinsey are the top ranked firms on every list, every year, including the latest employee survey from...
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