Your job consumes the majority of your waking day – we’re all at work for at least 8 hours each day. So, if you’ve lost your excitement for your job then a major part of your life is unbalanced. Having […]
Author: Célie
L’Alpaga : cocktails au coin du feu ou… en chambre !
À l’Hôtel Alpaga de Megève, vous pouvez siroter un cocktail création au coin du feu ou même carrément le faire livrer dans votre chambre ! Vous aimez la neige, le ski, Megève et les cocktails ? Direction L’Alpaga, un hôtel […]
“Banking is a very unattractive industry. I’m starting my career there anyway”
If you’re a university student who wants to work in banking and finance and you don’t have a spring or a summer internship, you might want to avert your eyes. At last week’s rarefied gathering of the top finance students […]
Private debt funds are the new top escape route from banking
If you’re looking to get out of a banking job, you have a few options. There’s private equity, there’scorporate development, and then there’s another less-talked-about yet popular landing spot for bankers looking to shake things up – private debt, whose […]
D.E. Shaw has hiked pay for its London staff to nearly £500k
Quant hedge fund giant D.E. Shaw hiked pay for its London staff by nearly 30% in the year to March 2017, and continued to hire after revenues surged by 48%. Staff in the UK operation of the $43bn investment firm […]
The crucial difference between making MD at Barclays and Goldman Sachs
If you want to make MD in an investment bank, should you work for Barclays or for Goldman Sachs? Statistics released by each bank on this year’s MD promotions suggest it depends upon your career path. Surprisingly, it looks a […]
This Scientist Wants to Bring ‘Star Trek’ Values to Congress
Vulcanologist Jess Phoenix never expected to be involved in politics. Until recently her life revolved around science—traveling the world to study different volcanoes and running an educational nonprofit. But the environmental record of the Trump administration has motivated her to […]











