Working long hours as an analyst or associate in an investment bank has long been seen as a rite of passage: today’s senior staff did it when they were juniors, today’s juniors do it now, and when today’s junior staff are senior they’ll expect the same of […]
For millennials in investment banking (defined as those who reached adulthood after 2000, and who therefore joined the industry no earlier than 2004), the trial of British hedge fund celebrity Crispin Odey is likely to be a curious time capsule. It’s sort […]
If you’re a junior investment banker now you’ve probably been through a pandemic adjustment process along with the rest of us. – As an industry we’ve swung from macho face-time and staying late in the office to being (institutionally) afraid to […]
Joining a boutique private bank was once a fairly standard career move for junior relationships managers trying to escape the more rigid market coverage and management structures at the likes of UBS and Credit Suisse. But as smaller players such […]
If you’re a top ranked junior banker with exceptional academic credentials and a long-term career plan, it’s highly probable that you have an aspiration to work in private equity. This is fine. But you need to go in with your eyes open. […]
It’s only the end of January and I am already exhausted. It’s easy to forget how relentless working in investment banking can be during the Christmas break; the reality is tougher than a lot of people imagine. And it’s not […]
Last year, I was at a friend’s birthday party, who, like me, worked in investment banking. Unsurprisingly, most people at the party was working in the same space; many well-off, promising faces from investment banks and funds. Another friend was […]
Singapore’s three local banks – DBS, OCBC and UOB – are all among the most aggressive recruiters in the city state. In the year to end-June 2019 they collectively added 3,449 staff, according to their financial results. If you’re considering going […]
As global banks (most recently, Deutsche Bank) cut costs in Hong Kong and Singapore, directors and managing directors are increasingly finding themselves displaced by cheaper and more junior team members. But while ex-MDs are busy starting their own businesses or finding […]
If you work in the financial services industry in a major financial centre like London, New York, or Hong Kong, you almost certainly earn more than the average person. You might be in the top 1%, which implies that you earn […]
