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Investment Banking in India: Please Avoid It and Try Again in Another Country

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If you have the option to work in finance in different parts of the world, investment banking in India should be at the bottom of your list. But the main problem is that winning a “true” front-office investment banking role in India is virtually impossible, even if you have outstanding academic credentials and work experience.

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Wealth Management vs. Investment Banking: Career Deathmatch

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If you want to read angry comments and long threads with plenty of insults, you can’t go wrong with the wealth management vs. investment banking debate. Some of these client differences relate to the distinction between private wealth management and private banking; for more on that, you should review the the private banking article.

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From Wealth Management to Investment Banking: How to Make the Leap

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How can I move from wealth management to investment banking ? It’s arguably the most difficult “front office to front office” transition within finance, so you should probably start by considering why you want to make this switch: Table Of Contents Why Switch from Wealth Management to Investment Banking? I hate this job.

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The Full Guide to Pre-MBA Internships: Are They Worth It?

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But then recruiting moved up, the MBA process became more structured, and now we have 4-year-olds aiming for “Target Kindergartens” so they can eventually get into investment banking ~15 years in the future. Interestingly, there are not many investment banks on these lists.

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Trading at the frontier

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In nothing short of a baptism of fire, he took his first steps into trading in January 2007 in the build-up to the global financial crisis. Historically, investment banking and trading was fairly wild and there was a lack of control generally in terms of the way banks managed traders, P&L and risk,” he adds.

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

The TRADE

According to Coalition Greenwich, the top dozen investment banks offering prime services saw revenues rise to a record $20.4 So you can see how this growth and momentum just starts to really build over time.” That’s adding a level of interest in the sector again by allocators. billion in 2023.

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Investment Banking in Singapore: The Best Gateway to Asia for the Non-Chinese?

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I’ve found that two main groups care about investment banking in Singapore : Students who are from Southeast Asia and are considering whether they want to work in Singapore, NY, London, or other places. It’s just that it’s smaller than you might expect, which means a lower investment banking headcount than true financial centers.