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Late Lunchtime Links: Hundreds of jobs could be coming to a leading hedge fund in London; the empty platitudes of Aviva Investors’ accidental email firing all its employees
If you want to work for a hedge fund, you could keep an eye on Winton Capital. One of the largest and more lucrative hedge funds to work for in London, our research recently suggested Winton increased its headcount of registered persons by 40% over the past two years. It may want to increase it [...]
The competition for keeping your job at Investec says something depressing to the whole market
In 30 days’ time, it will be the 28th of December and most people will be loosening their belts or visiting their in-laws. But at Investec, 85 people may be losing their jobs. As the next step in the pained fusion of Investec and Evolution Securities, Financial News reports that Investec has put 85 of [...]
GUEST COMMENT: My distressing experience with a recruiter who wasted my time
I am an experienced graduate currently looking for work in quantitative finance or algorithmic trading roles in London. I would like to share a recent very unpleasant experience I had when I made a job application. The application was for a software development position at a ‘leading’ London hedge fund (aren’t they all?). I applied [...]
Lunchtime Links: Banks’ unprofitable expansion in Asia; the MBA with the 434k hedge fund starting salary
We’ve suggested before that all this expansion in Asia might not be good for banks’ bottom lines. Now RBS has confirmed our suspicions – for wealth management at least. The bank has declared its intention of adding relationship managers to the 550 people it employs in Singapore, Hong Kong and India next year – even [...]
Late Lunchtime Links: A bank has been hiring in fixed income
And not just in fixed income: in rates sales, an area where other banks have been cutting. The perpetrator is Mizhuo International, which has been making noises about strengthening its fixed income business for some time. Now it’s hired Christophe Savornin as a director of its fixed income business in France, and David Grundy as [...]
Lunchtime Links: Protestors at St Paul’s are being evicted; protestors at Finsbury Square are holding ‘social dreaming’ sessions
With the news full of nothing but redundancies, London’s Occupy Camps provide a useful panacea to the gloom. Over at Finsbury Square, there is a full programme of events on today, as shown in the photograph of their schedule, below. Most notable: social dreaming in the early afternoon. Anyone with free time might be interested [...]
Hedge funds want to hire technologists with gaming and research backgrounds
Hedge funds are still hiring technologists, more IT professionals within investment banks want to make the switch across…but hedge funds are increasingly recruiting from outside the financial sector. If you’re a developer working on a cutting edge trading platform in an investment bank, and think that you’ll be able to apply your skills in a [...]
Man Group’s strange choice of a former head of MTV to get ahead in China
While jobs are cut in London, another organization is making a push into China. The Financial Times reports that UK hedge fund Man Group has got a 5-10 year plan to push into China and that it intends to open a “fully fledged research and trading office in Beijing in the near future.” Working on [...]
Lunchtime Links: 20-something poker players are making six figures; private equity hiring is not what it was
As banking careers carry increased risk of sudden death, alternatives may be preferable, like professional poker. The BBC highlights the case of two 20-something UK poker players, one of them a model from Kent with a 1st in astrophysics (the other a “mop” haired recent graduate of indeterminate origin), who are making big money. Mop-haired [...]
Our new annual graduate guide is available to download now
Readers of our student centre will know that we endeavour to offer regular news and advice on how best graduates can break into banking. However, you we’d also like to draw your attention to our comprehensive annual publication, Careers in Financial Markets. It aims to guide students through every sector within financial services, offering tips [...]
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