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Q&A: Mike Connarty, director of international investments at Standard Life, advocates learning Mandarin if you want to get ahead
Mike Connarty is based in Edinburgh but he’s an international figure in financial services. As director of international investments, Mike manages Standard Life’s fast-growing joint venture investments in India and China. If you want to work for him, you’ll need a genuinely international outlook – and ideally the capacity to speak Mandarin. Q: How long [...]
Asia isn’t happening. Do an MBA in Brazil
Credit Suisse’s results confirmed it: Asia is not it. Year-on-year, the bank’s total revenues in Asia Pac fell 5% in the first quarter. Its profits fell 4%. Citigroup did a little better: its Asian securities and banking revenues were up 17% year-on-year in the first quarter. However, its Latin American revenues were up 28% (its [...]
These are the qualifications that will get you a financial services job in the UK today
Back in January, we looked at the financial services qualifications that were most in demand in the UK, and the jobs you could do with them. Two months on, some things are unchanged: based on job adverts on eFinancialCareers, ACAs are still the most in-demand qualifications in the UK, followed by ACCAs, followed by CIMAs. [...]
GUEST COMMENT: Don’t be as stupid as to think the purpose of your MBA is to study
On the first day of my MBA, the dean advised us to prioritise. He spoke about the many opportunities that would be placed in front of us and how the hours in the day were limited. In the previous 10 years of my career, I had prided myself on being able to multitask, juggle, and [...]
Late Lunchtime Links: The highest paid London Business School fresh MBA graduate had a £350k starting salary last year; a US MBA graduate earned £478k
Business schools pride themselves on their ability to inflate the pay of their MBA students. The Financial Times’ recent MBA ranking revealed increases as high 148% for graduates of the top 10 schools worldwide. Some fresh MBA graduates, however, earn far more than even very experienced financial services professionals can expect to command. The blog [...]
Should you really go with the FT’s new MBA ranking? Or is there a better, more finance-focused alternative?
You’re thinking of doing an MBA in financial services, but where should you study? The Financial Times’ 2012 MBA ranking is out today. It ranks the top 10 global full time MBA programmes in 2012 as follows. The FT’s 2012 full time global MBA ranking: Stanford Graduate School of Business Harvard Business School University of [...]
These are the financial services qualifications which should enable you to earn the most and the least
Following on from last week’s look at the qualifications most likely to get you a job in UK financial services now, we’d like to elaborate with a look at the financial services qualifications that should – apparently – enable you to earn the most money. The figures below are derived from jobs currently advertised on [...]
The head of risk at AQR on the qualifications that will help you get a job
Trader and blogger Michael Martin has been talking to Aaron Brown, chief risk officer at hedge fund AQR Capital Management and the man whom Nassim Taleb apparently called “the Dean of Wall Street Risk Managers.” Martin’s interview is very long and very informative and includes such trading (and potential career management) gems from Brown as: “These [...]
In order of preference, these are the qualifications financial services employers want now
If you’re about to lose your job and are worried about finding a new one, you may be tempted to seek additional qualifications. If so, the figures below provide a snapshot of what financial services employers using eFinancialCareers to advertise roles are looking for in theUKat this moment. Needless to say, the information below has [...]
GUEST COMMENT: How to leave your investment banking job properly
These days I’ve been running into more people in finance than usual who absolutely hate almost every aspect of their jobs. Whether it’s sheer boredom from the work, (NEWSFLASH: some jobs in finance are about as intellectually stimulating as walking a straight line), disappointment in their career progression to date, their paycheck vs. their hours [...]
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