Sector: Asset Management

These are the jobs you can do with each level of CFA qualification

If you have done or are doing the CFA qualifications leading to the CFA Charter, you may be wondering what you’ll be equipped to do once you’ve passed each of the three exams. Fortunately, therefore, the CFA Institute has clarified this. Earlier this month, they sent us the following statement: Each level of the CFA [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 21 June 2011 • 25 comments

This is where you should be working, bank by bank, market by market

If you aspire to work for a bank that’s the global market leader in your product area, but for some reason are ignorant as to which bank that is, we have the answers. Derived from figures from analysts at JPMorgan, who last week released a detailed analysis of each banks’ revenues, by product, for 2010 [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 4 April 2011 • 12 comments

Help! Should I work on the buyside? Should I work on the sellside?

“I have been working on the buyside for three years as an analyst and am looking at potentially moving to the sell side. I’m an equity researcher and moving to the sellside would probably mean joining at the associate level. On the other hand, if I stay on the buyside I’ll probably be able to [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 23 February 2011 • 6 comments

Who is Julian Barnett? (Or how an IT programmer became a ‘star’ hedge fund manager)

Julian Barnett is in the news. Aged just 33, and 11 years out of university, he is setting up his own $200m hedge fund, Ridley Park Capital. The Financial Times describes it as, ‘one of the most anticipated start ups among London’s hedge fund community this year.’ How did Julian achieve such acclaim? 1) He [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 8 June 2010 • 8 comments