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The Path to Success: How to Become an Investment Banker

OfficeHours

While a degree in finance, economics, or related fields is highly sought after, investment banks will hire candidates with a diversity of backgrounds, especially in STEM fields. To develop these skills, take classes in finance and economics, regardless of your major. Maybe even more important than your major is your GPA.

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Top 3 Trends for the Institutional Investing & Pension Funds Space in 2018

Accenture Capital Markets

The year ahead will be busy for institutional investors and pension funds as they navigate political turbulence and speculations around when the economic cycle will shift. The industry is rethinking how to manage the generation, storage, transformation, usage and retirement of both structured and unstructured data.

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BofE launches stress testing ‘exercise’ for major banks and buy-side to prevent future bonds collapses

The TRADE

As part of the new system-wide exploratory scenario (SWES) exercise, participants including major banks, hedge funds, asset managers and pension funds will be asked to evaluate the impact of “severe but plausible” stress including what actions they might individually take in that scenario, with a focus on the UK markets.

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Keeping an aircraft carrier nimble in times of turbulence

The TRADE

Chicago-based head of US trading at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) Ryan Raymond has seen enough economic turmoil during his career to know what to do when markets turn volatile. Chicago is a very small community and so I knew most of the portfolio managers and management at LGIM America before I came over.

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Eyes on a new prize: How outsourced trading has taken off and why the attention is now turning to larger managers

The TRADE

For some asset managers and hedge funds, the seemingly impossible notion of all traders not physically sitting together on a centralised desk and communicating face-to-face was all but wiped away overnight as the hybrid working setup was forcibly tested and passed with flying colours.

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Outsourced trading: Easy to do, difficult to get right

The TRADE

Aaron Hantman, chief executive of Tourmaline, agrees that, despite the pursuit for quality, the decision to outsource – specifically where to outsource – often comes down to economics, explaining that in some cases this can have negative repercussions. “If

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It’s Private Credit’s World

The Deal

But the asset class has also carried over its caution from the second half of last year amid economic uncertainty and a tighter fundraising environment. Meanwhile, in January, Churchill raised $737 million for its second Junior Capital Opportunities fund — more than double its first — and Goldman Sachs Asset Management snagged $15.2

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