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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. [...]
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 [...]
The unspoken nightmare faced by non-EU nationals working in the City of London today
Many non-EU nationals working in the City of London are being heavily penalised under new immigration rules which came into force in April. Most notably, a high proportion of non-EU nationals who lose their jobs in the City of London are now obliged to leave the country for a year before they can come back [...]
GUEST COMMENT: The problem is, it’s too frightening to resign from a financial services job
If you still have a job in the City then you have something in common with the great novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In 1849, the writer was about to be shot by a firing squad for dissent when, at the last moment, he was pardoned by the Czar. Living with the threat of layoffs is like [...]
Q&A: The Russian chief executive of a $100m hedge fund says if you really want to make it, you need to work for yourself
We spoke to Slava Rabinovich, CEO of Moscow-based Diamond Age Capital Advisors, a hedge fund with $105m under management. This is what he told us about his career, and life in general. How did you come to work in the Russian hedge fund sector? In 1996, I was about to graduate from the Stern School [...]
GUEST COMMENT: As a junior corporate financier I am spending my life tweaking PowerPoint presentations
Many young undergraduates harbour dreams of becoming an investment banker when they finish university, but few know what the job entails. Those who know the reality have probably done an internship in the sector, be it in ECM, DCM or M&A. Some of these people have continued to bite the bullet and become full-fledged analysts, [...]
GUEST COMMENT: The 8 main reasons why people become investment bankers
There are different reasons why individuals become investment bankers. Chance plays a role, but deep-seated motivations are usually the determining factor. These motivations explain why so many bankers agree to work unusually long hours, put up with abnormally high levels of stress and sacrifice personal and leisure time. Take a look at the faces of [...]
GUEST COMMENT: I have attended a positively mind-blowing class as part of my Masters at the London Business School
Gabriel Chen is a Singaporean student at London Busines School and a former financial journalist for Singapore’s Straits Times. I recently wrapped up one of the best courses of my Masters in Finance at London Business School (LBS). Called Topics in Asset Management, it was taught by Robert Jenkins, an external member of the Interim [...]
A Q&A with Anil Hansjee, the former investment bank software engineer who became Google’s main M&A man in EMEA
Anil Hansjee has had quite a career. Having started out as a programmer at Swiss Bank Corp, now Union Bank of Switzerland, he moved into a risk-product role at Chemical/Chase (now JPMorgan) before making an unusual move into corporate finance. From there, he moved to the buyside and venture capital, and from there he moved [...]
GUEST COMMENT: The parable of the Great Analyst Cull of 2002-2003
Listen carefully, for I am going to tell you a tale: the tale of the Great Analyst Cull of 2002-2003. It is a parable of brutal culling, followed by years of dry pitching, followed bounteous riches. It may offer sustenance in the horrid years ahead. For those without the folk memory of the Great Cull, [...]
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