Contrary to popular belief and contemporary memes, it’s never been easy to get a graduate job. There were always hoops to jump through. It’s just that the hoops have multiplied and have got more weird. As we reported earlier this […]
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Bonuses up 20% for top people in Barclays’ investment bank
Barclays’ results for 2020 are out. The British bank appears to have done its very best to pay people well in its investment bank, even though profits at group level were pressured by writedowns against potential non-performing loans. The bonus pool across Barclays as a […]
Why finance recruiters don’t respond to your applications
Why don’t financial services recruiters respond when you apply for jobs? The populist response to this common question usually involves some recruiter bashing, but I’d like to provide a different and more balanced perspective (if not a full-blooded case for […]
The top 20 investment bankers in America and Europe
Banking information platform MergerLinks has now issued its lists of the top 10 investment bankers in both Europe and the Americas for 2020. If you’re wondering who managed to get the most deals done last year, we’ve combined the top 10 names in Europe […]
How hedge fund non-competes can mean you’re paid twice over
It’s not easy saying goodbye to a job at a hedge fund. Not only are you walking away from the opportunity to earn exorbitant amounts of money (unless of course you’re moving to another hedge fund), but you may well be constrained […]
Égalité hommes-femmes : vers de nouveaux quotas dans les Comex et les Codir ?
Les entreprises font des progrès en matière de parité. Mais pas assez. En particulier dans les instances dirigeantes. Le gouvernement planche sur un nouveau critère à intégrer dans l’index de l’égalité professionnelle. Mais aussi sur de nouveaux quotas. Notamment dans les “codir” […]
The dark underside of Robinhood
Some Robinhood traders count their winnings, the Wall Street Journal reports on a darker side to the trading app. Alex Kearns, a 20 year-old student, took his life after initiating a trade for which he thought the loss was capped […]
“They go after a year”: young Singapore technologists quit banks for big tech
Banking technologists in Singapore are sounding the alarm about the number of young tech professionals leaving the finance sector to join big tech companies. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and Grab are using Singapore as a beachhead into Southeast Asian […]
COVID nightmares for women in hedge funds
Working in an investment role for a hedge fund during a time of family strife is a challenge irrespective of your gender. – In 2013, Paul Tudor Jones controversially claimed that hedge fund managers’ returns fall by 10-20% when they’re going […]
This is the enormous pay at The Carlyle Group and Apollo Global Management
How much will you earn if you leave your investment banking role for a job in private equity? If you work for the big funds like Carlyle Group and Apollo Management, you could earn a lot. The two behemoths of the buy-side reported […]