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Q&A: Mike Connarty, director of international investments at Standard Life, advocates learning Mandarin if you want to get ahead
Mike Connarty is based in Edinburgh but he’s an international figure in financial services. As director of international investments, Mike manages Standard Life’s fast-growing joint venture investments in India and China. If you want to work for him, you’ll need a genuinely international outlook – and ideally the capacity to speak Mandarin. Q: How long [...]
Is there enough of an appetite for MBAs in the Gulf to support so many schools?
A number of international business schools have set up in the Middle East over the last five years in an effort to tap into what’s widely believed to be a growing demand for MBAs in the region. Certainly, until recently, it seemed that this commonly held view was justified. Is this changing? INSEAD is reassessing [...]
Should you really go with the FT’s new MBA ranking? Or is there a better, more finance-focused alternative?
You’re thinking of doing an MBA in financial services, but where should you study? The Financial Times’ 2012 MBA ranking is out today. It ranks the top 10 global full time MBA programmes in 2012 as follows. The FT’s 2012 full time global MBA ranking: Stanford Graduate School of Business Harvard Business School University of [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How to leave your investment banking job properly
These days I’ve been running into more people in finance than usual who absolutely hate almost every aspect of their jobs. Whether it’s sheer boredom from the work, (NEWSFLASH: some jobs in finance are about as intellectually stimulating as walking a straight line), disappointment in their career progression to date, their paycheck vs. their hours [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How, and why, I decided to switch from investment banking to private equity
Investment banking in the Middle East, much like in other areas of the world, is going through a tough time. Many international institutions have been scaling back in the region, while large local organisations have been making redundancies and re-evaluating their capital markets and investment banking operations. The state of investment banking in the Middle [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Private banking should be more than harvesting clients’ assets
I’ve worked in private banking for over 20 years across many different countries, but despite being based in the UAE for the last eight years, I am constantly astounded by the limited strategy put out by the banks hiring here. You can be a seasoned banker with an MBA under your belt, but the first [...]
How beneficial is an MBA to your career prospects in the Middle East?
Until recently, an MBA gained in the Middle East was barely worth the paper it was written on. However, a proliferation of courses taught on-the-ground by top business schools over the last five years has helped salvage the qualification’s reputation in the region. The first thing to point out is that these qualifications don’t come [...]
Senior bankers express their irritation with MBAs and juniors
Earlier this week, the new editor of Financial News reported that he’d been chatting to the head of investment banking at two European banks who went out of their way to inform him just how mediocre most of their employees are. To compound this, two senior bankers elsewhere in the world have since divulged their [...]
Six financial services qualifications which could substantially improve your employability
If you’re looking for a job in financial services and can’t get one, or if you’ve got a job in financial services and you want a new one, you may need to increase your allure with a CV upgrade. We suggest the qualifications below. If you disagree or know of others, please add your suggestions [...]
Curse of the dangerously immaculate financial services CVs
The perfect profile for a generic job in investment banking is familiar enough to be a cliché: Oxbridge or LSE followed by Goldman or Morgan Stanley or JPMorgan, followed by an MBA at Harvard or LBS, followed by more years at a big brand bank. Peter Gwinnell clocked this and concocted the perfect CV. Gwinnell, [...]
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