It’s not uncommon for first year investment banking analysts to get the winter blues a few months into the job and to start wondering whether they’ve made the right life choices. Usually, this results in an emotional conversation over coffee […]
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Is this why young bankers try escaping from Frankfurt?
In theory, Frankfurt has it all happening. The German city is attracting legal entities as investment banks set up registered EU subsidiaries there. It’s getting some new front office jobs. It’s getting plenty of new back offices jobs. And it’s seeing the expansion […]
“Over promoted” young bankers in HK and Singapore can’t cope in new jobs
As global banks 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 new jobs on the buy-side, their young replacements […]
A tough message for young bankers: You’re just cannon fodder
If you’ve left university and achieved a job at a top investment bank, you obviously know how to jump through hoops. You clearly got some good grades, went to some kind of big university, did all the right things. You probably feel like […]
What young bankers who quit London because of Brexit do next
Call it Brexit, call it British autumnal blues, call it boredom, people are leaving London – and they’re not all called Mark Carney. Over the past weeks and months, there’s been a definite trickle of juniors out of investment banks […]