Tag: Investment Management

Here are some asset managers that hire graduates

Still trying to find out where you could do an internship or graduate programme? If banks are failing you, you could try the asset management industry. We’ve listed a selection of the asset managers in Europe that take on graduates below. Some (Threadneedle and Legal and General Investment Management) have already closed their applications. Applications [...]

By Carolyn Emett, 18 November 2011 • 1 comment

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 [...]

By Paul Clarke, 9 November 2011 • 0 comments

GUEST COMMENT: I am channelling Ayn Rand to help determine my career path

The Russian-American novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand argues that all of us have a philosophy of life. Likewise, when it comes to investing, I think it’s really good to know what you believe and how you know it to be true. Successful investing requires a unique blend of attributes and ideas. A humble spirit, for [...]

By anonymous anonymous, 4 November 2011 • 21 comments

Hedge funds are STILL hiring technologists

It hasn’t been a great few months for most hedge funds, but while front office hiring has largely ground to a halt, there remains an appetite to recruit technologists. We’ve mentioned previously that the increased institutionalisation in the hedge fund industry, combined with a desire to utilise technology to gain a competitive edge, is spurring [...]

By Paul Clarke, 26 October 2011 • 2 comments

Jefferies says people are bursting to work there, but can it pay them?

The good news is that Jefferies has continued hiring this year. Its newsroom shows a cascade of hiring announcements and it added 620 people in the third quarter (although around 420 of these came with the Prudential Bache acquisition). The bad news is that Jefferies had a bad Q3. Fixed income sales and trading revenues [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 21 September 2011 • 0 comments

Hedge funds versus asset managers: the technology pay stakes

The flow of technologists from investment banks to hedge funds has been increasing over the last year or so, with people tempted by the promise of larger bonuses. It’s easy to forget, however, that asset managers are also competing for the same pool of IT talent – and generally pay less. Asset management IT recruitment [...]

By Paul Clarke, 31 August 2011 • 0 comments

Hedge funds demand impeccable academics…even for techies

If you want to get into a hedge fund there are usually two basic prerequisites – flawless academics from a top university. It’s slightly surprising, though, that this elitist attitude even extends to IT roles. A move from an investment banking technology role to an IT position in a hedge fund is increasingly common. The [...]

By Paul Clarke, 29 July 2011 • 1 comment

GUEST COMMENT: Why you wouldn’t want to be the analyst working with a beautiful intern

A little eye candy in the office is never a bad thing, except when it poses a real threat to your bonus, as I once learnt to my cost. This website recently profiled on a certain Swiss female intern, of Eastern European extraction, who is a summer intern at JPMorgan. As anyone who has spent [...]

By Anonymous, 25 July 2011 • 10 comments

GUEST COMMENT: Being a financial journalist is like sitting in a Ferrari but never driving it

I’m about to embark on what I believe will be one of the most exhilarating chapters in my life: moving to London to study. But first, a little about what I’m giving up. I was previously the finance correspondent for The Straits Times in Singapore. In my job, I was privy to the blistering economic [...]

By Gabriel Chen, 20 July 2011 • 8 comments

GUEST COMMENT: The CFA Institute are deluding themselves if they think ethics can be taught

Another June weekend, another set of CFA exams. The CFA has become the benchmark for professional investors everywhere. Bizarrely, this gold standard of the investment management industry awards 10-15% of its total marks for the dubious category of, ‘Ethical and Professional Standards’. As a market participant, I’m confident in my ability to understand a business [...]

By Anonymous, 8 June 2011 • 12 comments