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Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

Mergers and Inquisitions

People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. Traditionally, banks gave away equity research reports for free to incentivize large clients to trade with the bank.

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Buy Side M&A Blog Series - Vol 7 - Valuing The Target

RKJ Partners

It is important that the buyer’s deal team includes an experienced investment banking professional that can effectively and efficiently facilitate the appropriate business, financial, and valuation-related analyses during due diligence, and ultimately the completion of a business valuation.

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