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Sector: Debt / Fixed Income
Real estate hiring in retreat
A deathly hush has fallen over commercial property lending recruitment as observers are wait to see if commercial property will follow the residential market’s 15% fall over the year. Marie Hunt, director of research at property consultants CB Richard Ellis, tells us, “Lack of funding is having a serious impact on investment and development.” Commercial [...]
Leveraged finance fever
Ireland may be better known for its back-office businesses, but recruiters say the country is also home to plenty of leveraged finance jobs. Moreover, there just don’t seem to be enough candidates to fill them. Allied Irish Bank recently placed an advert in the Financial Times seeking leveraged finance staff to work in Dublin, Frankfurt [...]
Guest comment: The CFA charter is the gold standard
John Bowman, CFA head of educational products tells us why having ‘Chartered Financial Analyst’ (CFA) after your name will make all the difference to your career. While supervising the examination in Los Angeles last Saturday, it struck me how much growth the CFA Program has experienced in the last decade. Over 126,000 candidates in more [...]
Best jobs still elsewhere
Recruiters say coveted front office roles are still few and far between in Dublin’s financial sector. “Dublin still has a small trading presence where nepotism rules and often you need the right schooling and right background to get you a front-office job,” says Edward Cox, manager of the banking and finance desk at recruitment agency [...]
Job wrap: Heavyweights bow out, banks expand
Derek Walker, chairman of Morgan Stanley Europe, and Sir John Bond, chairman of HSBC, announced their retirements last week. Walker, who will stay on as a senior advisor, was replaced by Jonathan Chenevix-Trench, chairman of Morgan Stanley’s institutional securities business and of the European management committee. Sir John Bond announced he will retire as HSBC [...]
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