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Want to work for Brevan Howard? It looks quite unlikely in London
Brevan Howard is hiring – in Hong Kong. It’s just announced the appearance of David Adams, former head of rates trading at Morgan Stanley in Australia. Not long ago, it hired Farouk Juma, a former prop trader at UBS in Singapore. In London, meanwhile, enthusiasm for recruiting appears to have abated. Last March, Nagi [...]
Evidence that Norway and Sweden has some very skilled traders
We’re a little late on this, but the emergence of the ‘Robin Hood’ day traders in Norway and Sweden, who managed to profit from the flaws in algorithmic trading programmes, reignites the old man versus machine debate. Trading floors of investment banks have, of course, been cut back to the bone because of the rise [...]
What employers want from you in an interview
It’s the most stressful part of the job seeking process: the interview. When you are fortunate enough to have your job search reach that level, there is at last a face to contend with. To help you succeed in the tete-a-tete, understanding what goes through the interviewer’s mind may help you land that next position. [...]
Third year economics student at York University explains how she converted her equity research internship into a job offer from Goldman Sachs
What does it take to get a graduate job in equity research at Goldman Sachs? We’ve already looked at what equity research at Goldman Sachs involves, but if you want to know about succeeding in the recruitment process, Katherine Chan, a third year economics student at York University (with a graduate offer of an equity [...]
Nightmare for junior corporate financiers with private equity aspirations: banks are identifying and pre-emptively sacking them
There’s one thing worse than being an analyst or 1st year associate spending your every waking hour on pitchbooks, and that’s being an analyst or associate spending your every waking hour on pitchbooks whilst trying to time for interviewing with private equity funds. Recruiters working with private equity funds in London say there’s a lot [...]
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. [...]
Merrill Lynch International made an operating loss of $268m last year, increased headcount 30%, and paid its average employee $488k
Merrill Lynch International, the London-based business of what was once known as Merrill Lynch before it was subsumed into Bank of America, has released its results for the year to December 2011. They show some considerable hiring. Merrill Lynch International started the year with 2,600 people and ended it with 3,390 – an increase of [...]
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 [...]
Your questions to the head of graduate resourcing at Barclays Wealth, and her answers
Sarah Cockburn, head of graduate resourcing at Barclays Wealth, has agreed to respond to some of your questions on graduate jobs and internships. We’ve started the process by asking Sarah a few questions below. Please post your questions in the comments box at the bottom of this page. Sarah will be answering three a day [...]
The misguided job search tactics of the alpha male
Being an alpha male can be a good thing. Alpha males are confident, natural leaders. They’re usually intelligent. They’re analytical and they’re doers. Lloyds is so keen to turn its employees into alpha males, it’s reportedly sent them on a course titled, ‘Hunter-Gatherers in the Corporate Jungle,’ where they’ve been equipped with alpha male traits. [...]
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