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This is what you can earn as a quant in London, New York, Paris, Singapore or Hong Kong
We have some figures for quant salaries from recruitment firm Selby Jennings. They hark back from November, but we are assured they remain correct. They are presented below, without comment.
Everything we know so far about bonuses and deferrals, bank-by-bank
As a follow-up to our earlier article on the state of bonuses, cash caps and deferrals on a bank-by-bank basis this year, here’s what we know now. Feel free to email us at Editor@eFinancialCareers.com or to leave a comment if you know additional details that we don’t. Bank of America Cash bonus cap? Yes, but it [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How you can work at Goldman Sachs for 8 years without living a Playboy lifestyle and still end up broke
There is a persistent City fairy tale which goes something like this: work hard enough, for long enough, and you’ll retire rich and live happily ever after. In this heart-warming fable, “hard enough” equals a minimum 90-hour week. And, “long enough” means somewhere between five and ten years… To have reached thirty five and not [...]
DAVID CHARTERS: I advocate that banks begin publishing details of their pay
Imagine how investment banking would work if not just board level people and a token handful of the highest earners had their pay disclosed, but everyone did, at least in any rump of an organisation where the taxpayer might ultimately foot the bill if things go wrong. At every bank, everyone would know what everyone [...]
Second year associates at Credit Suisse could now be paid the same as first year associates or maybe even third year analysts
It’s still early, so we haven’t been able to confirm this with Credit Suisse, but Bloomberg has a worrying article this morning intimating the introduction of a whole new flat pay structure for the Swiss bank’s junior investment bankers. “Credit Suisse Group is likely to suspend its practice, an industry norm, of boosting pay automatically [...]
This year’s bonus is keeping your job
The big Nordic banks may be relatively well placed to ride out the eurozone waves battering some of their European counterparts but, it is very clear, they do not operate in a vacuum, and so bonuses this year are expected to remain tightly screwed down. The sentiment emerging from Nordic banks in the final quarter [...]
This time next week, Goldman bankers should know their numbers: the bonus calendar for 2012
This time next week, bankers at Goldman Sachs should know their bonuses for 2011. Morgan Stanley will follow shortly after. Everywhere else will come after that. Here’s the bonus announcement and payment schedule for the next few months – as we understand it (feel free to suggest amendments if you disagree). Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs [...]
This is how much you should have been earning as an MD in credit and high yield trading in EMEA, Asia, the US and Brazil in 2011
International financial services search firm, Options Group, has disclosed some data points from its new and comprehensive compensation report for 2011. Here’s what they say you should be anticipating, in total comp as an MD in credit and high yield trading this year. Total compensation forecast, MD, credit and high yield trading US: $1.75m-$2.5m EMEA: [...]
Bank of America’s deferred bonuses from 2010 are now worth nearly nothing
In 2010, Thomas Montag, head of global banking and markets at Bank of America, was riding high. He exercised some of his options in his employer, and realised a pleasant gain of $11.5m. This year, Montag is riding a pygmy goat. BofA’s proxy statement shows that Montag’s target earnings from 2010 stock awards were supposed to reach [...]
This is how much you should be earning as an MD in equity research in EMEA, Asia, the US and Brazil in 2011
International financial services search firm, Options Group, has disclosed some data points from its new and very comprehensive compensation report for 2011. Here’s what they say you should be anticipating, in total comp as an MD in equity research this year. Total compensation forecast, MD, equity research, 2011 US: $750k-$1.0m EMEA: $785-$1.2m Asia-Pac: $1.0-$1.2m LatAm: [...]
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