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GUEST COMMENT: I am not overqualified, I am over 40
When I was made redundant from my job as a middle office manager with a leading asset management company a few years ago, I didn’t envisage I’d have any problems finding an alternative position. After all, I had nearly 20 years’ experience within the investment business, many of them in a managerial and training capacity. [...]
Q&A with an anonymous senior fund manager: Is fund management really such a well paid, stress-free career:
Q: Let’s get right down to business. We’ve already heard the juicy bits of your escape from the back office – now we’d like to step into your shoes. So what do you actually do as a fund manager? How do you invest? A: It really depends. The industry encompasses so many different methods of [...]
This is the new man implicated in JPMorgan’s loss. This is the risk manager who’s going to rectify the problem. These are the fears for JPMorgan’s bonuses
Heads will roll. Bloomberg reports this morning that the entire London staff of JPMorgan’s chief investment office (CIO), numbering ‘several dozen’ are at risk of dismissal. Bonuses in London will fall, maybe by 50%. Seal Team 6 risk managers have been summoned to sort out the mess. Things at JPMorgan Europe are going to be [...]
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 [...]
GUEST COMMENT: As a junior corporate financier I am spending my life tweaking PowerPoint presentations
Many young undergraduates harbour dreams of becoming an investment banker when they finish university, but few know what the job entails. Those who know the reality have probably done an internship in the sector, be it in ECM, DCM or M&A. Some of these people have continued to bite the bullet and become full-fledged analysts, [...]
GUEST COMMENT: I have attended a positively mind-blowing class as part of my Masters at the London Business School
Gabriel Chen is a Singaporean student at London Busines School and a former financial journalist for Singapore’s Straits Times. I recently wrapped up one of the best courses of my Masters in Finance at London Business School (LBS). Called Topics in Asset Management, it was taught by Robert Jenkins, an external member of the Interim [...]
A Q&A with Anil Hansjee, the former investment bank software engineer who became Google’s main M&A man in EMEA
Anil Hansjee has had quite a career. Having started out as a programmer at Swiss Bank Corp, now Union Bank of Switzerland, he moved into a risk-product role at Chemical/Chase (now JPMorgan) before making an unusual move into corporate finance. From there, he moved to the buyside and venture capital, and from there he moved [...]
Q&A: Brian Caulfield, partner at Dublin-based venture capital firm DFJ Esprit tells us about his career
We asked Brian Caulfield, partner at Dublin-based venture capital firm DFJ Esprit how he got where he is today, what he can impart to those who’d like to follow in his footsteps, and what he thinks of the situation facing Ireland today. This is what he said: Q: What was the pivotal moment of your [...]
GUEST COMMENT: You would be foolish not to keep an eye on what the EU’s saying about bonuses
Most people have now received their bonuses for 2011. If you are among them, compensation may not be at the forefront of your mind and you may be getting on with your role rather than monitoring events in the European Parliament. This would be an oversight. Yesterday, some European lawmakers in the Parliament called for [...]
Is working at NAMA a bureaucratic, stress-filled nightmare?
It doesn’t sound good when even the chief executive can’t cope. Back in December, NAMA published a review of its activities in which it confessed that chief executive Brendan McDonagh had an “intense workload” and that administrative work was consuming a lot of time internally at NAMA. It said the agency needs to employ another [...]
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