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These are the jobs you can do with each level of CFA qualification
If you have done or are doing the CFA qualifications leading to the CFA Charter, you may be wondering what you’ll be equipped to do once you’ve passed each of the three exams. Fortunately, therefore, the CFA Institute has clarified this. Earlier this month, they sent us the following statement: Each level of the CFA [...]
Help! Should I work on the buyside? Should I work on the sellside?
“I have been working on the buyside for three years as an analyst and am looking at potentially moving to the sell side. I’m an equity researcher and moving to the sellside would probably mean joining at the associate level. On the other hand, if I stay on the buyside I’ll probably be able to [...]
Continued signs of recovery at SEB and DnB Nor, but hiring still muted
Business volumes at SEB continued to improve in the second quarter of this year, with the bank increasing its credit exposure, private banking and asset management activities, as well as spending more on IT specialists and consultants. Overall, Q2 and half-year figures published today showed the financial woes of the Baltic economies continuing to act [...]
Are HQ Bank woes a sign of things to come?
The twists and turns at Swedish financial services operation HQ Bank have kept markets and analysts on the edge of their seats – but whether, against a backdrop of both generally improving conditions locally but growing unease at the wider European situation, its woes are a one-off or the first signs of a deeper malaise [...]
Who is Julian Barnett? (Or how an IT programmer became a ‘star’ hedge fund manager)
Julian Barnett is in the news. Aged just 33, and 11 years out of university, he is setting up his own $200m hedge fund, Ridley Park Capital. The Financial Times describes it as, ‘one of the most anticipated start ups among London’s hedge fund community this year.’ How did Julian achieve such acclaim? 1) He [...]
Things are better, but Nordic banks still cautious about hiring
First quarter figures for the Nordic region’s banks over the past few weeks have suggested that the worst of the financial crisis may now be over, and there are clear signs this optimism is filtering through into the jobs market. But the crisis in the eurozone could yet put a spanner in the works, warn [...]
Private banking, asset management and risk shine in Q1
Asset managers, private bankers and compliance and risk specialists can all look forward to being in demand this year, if the latest clutch of first quarter results of the big Nordic banks are anything to go by. Q1 results for January to March have been just released by Nordea, Swedbank, SEB and Handelsbanken and show [...]
Curling actuaries, particle physicists and other unconventional routes into financial services jobs
Nordic financial services may be a relatively close-knit community, but that’s not to say it only attracts accountants or those with a pure finance background. Bond manager Pimco has appointed former particle physicist Mikael Angberg as its head of new business for the Nordic countries. Angberg began his career studying black holes at CERN, the [...]
Nordic banking chief suggests pay should be fixed
The Nordic bonus debate continues unabated. After relatively polarized moves among the region’s largest banks over the past couple of weeks, Handelsbanken’s chief executive has questioned the need for variable compensation and presented the case for fixed pay in the industry. Pär Boman, chief executive of the Nordic region’s second largest bank, has suggested that [...]
Swedbank has cut over 2,500 jobs in 2009, but expects profit this year
As well as its highly-publicised bonus cancellation, Swedbank has shown some 2,571 employees the door this year and posted its fourth quarterly loss in a row today. But it’s “feasible” that the bank could return to profit in 2010. Swedbank reported a fourth quarter net loss of SEK1.8bn, compared to a profit of SEK1.92bn for [...]
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