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REVIEW MY CV: I have been working in a back office role in India and want to move into a front office role in London
I’d like your advice. Recently I was into a back office role. I’ve completed an MSc and am now interested in front/middle office, equity research, portfolio management and financial data analytics. Can anyone give me any pointers? Nationality : Indian (UK student visa till January 2011 and hold National Insurance Number) Education: Business School, UK: [...]
REVIEW MY CV: Should I take a more junior role to build my skillset?
“I am looking for an equity analyst role, preferably on the buy side. This includes hedge funds, private equity houses and long only fund managers. I am willing to take a more junior role in order to build up my skillset within fundamental equity research. So far the response to my CV has been slower [...]
What, exactly, is wrong with my CV (10)?
I’m looking for is a sales related role in equities or FX, and am open to working in a brokerage, hedge fund, or investment bank. I’d quite like to move to Asia, but am open to settling in London for the right opportunity. Education: 10/2004-09/2008 Masters in Business, continental European university Diploma thesis: The underpricing [...]
Universities offer expanded courses in financial services
The ICMA Centre, a financial services-focused business school attached to the UK’s University of Reading, received a 5m (€7.4m) grant to finance the expansion of its teaching facilities this month. The endowment was a gift from the centre’s benefactor and namesake, the International Capital Markets Association. But Reading is not the only university to run [...]
European jobs roundup: Lazard builds principal finance unit
As CSFB, Société Générale and Barclays all unveiled substantially higher profits for 2003 last week, Lazard added to the mood of optimism by moving into mid-market private equity with the creation of a London-based principal finance unit. The bank recruited two buyout specialists: Graham Keniston-Cooper, a former Cinven partner and Victor Vadeneaux, a former partner [...]
Demand for CFA exams surges in Germany
The numbers taking the CFA exams have risen more than five-fold between 1999 and 2002, up to 1,862, and training firms expect the figure to rise. They are taking advantage of the demand by starting new courses for candidates. Next January, BPP Hyperion, the City of London training company, will offer CFA training in Frankfurt [...]
Betty Buyside: Bonus blues
Bonus time has just come round again on the trading floors of the Square Mile….and I’m still recovering. You’ve no idea how disruptive the whole process is for a typical investment analyst working in a fund management company, such as myself. During the first few weeks of each calendar year all my usual brokers are [...]
PR headhunter hires ABN Amro executive
The appointment sees McGregor leaving ABN Amro after eight years. She joined the Dutch bank as an investment analyst and her most recent position was deputy chief executive of ABN Amro’s investment banking office in Tokyo. She recently returned to the UK to help with the hand-over from Nigel Hugh Smith to Tina Beattie as [...]
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