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Wealth Management vs. Investment Banking: Career Deathmatch

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Think: benchmarking portfolios rather than modeling companies. You will very rarely get exposed to the type of financial modeling that bankers complete: 3-statement models , DCF models , M&A models , LBO models , and so on. As with the job itself, the theme is breadth over depth.

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Metals & Mining Investment Banking: The Full Guide to Ground Zero for the Energy Transition

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If you have an engineering background, you might get hired for your ability to read and interpret technical analyses such as feasibility reports and help bankers incorporate them into financial model assumptions. On the producer side, you can see how much they spend to build new plants, factories, and processing centers.

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Renewable Energy Investment Banking: How to Make Greens by Going Green

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For example, if a renewable developer wanted to raise debt to build a new offshore wind farm as a separate entity, it would fall under Project Finance. Renewable Energy Accounting, Valuation, and Financial Modeling For the most part, very little is “new” here.

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

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People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. So, for example, quarterly financial models are more common in equity research, as are detailed bottoms-up models used in initiating coverage reports.