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Trading at the frontier

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The London-based trading team at Ninety One has a very particular set of skills. The active investment manager specialises in emerging and frontier markets trading across fixed income, credit and specialist equities. Ninety One’s trading team consists of 17 globally with six – soon to be seven – based in London.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

based bulge brackets (GS, MS, JPM, Citi, and BofA) are the strongest international banks, and Avendus, Kotak, JM Financial, ICICI, and Axis are the strongest domestic firms. Financials are usually in the #1 spot because banks and insurance firms constantly issue debt; other sectors trade places in the rankings.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Traditionally, banks gave away equity research reports for free to incentivize large clients to trade with the bank. Therefore, equity research generated revenue indirectly via trading commissions , but it was still considered a front-office role due to the compensation, interaction with managers and investors, and exit opportunities.

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Wealth Management vs. Investment Banking: Career Deathmatch

Mergers and Inquisitions

For example, they might ask you how to use a DCF, what bond yields are, or the trade-offs of debt vs. equity – but but they won’t ask you to build a DCF model or calculate Unlevered Free Cash Flow. As with the job itself, the theme is breadth over depth.

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

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“Year-to-date, we’re seeing for the first time in many years a notable uptick in new fund launches and spin outs from bigger places,” says Jack Seibald, managing director, co-head of Marex prime services and outsourced trading. They are now trading in all these other asset classes. billion in 2023.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

We cover many of the trade-offs in the earlier wealth management vs. investment banking article , but in short: Investment banking has better exit opportunities at all levels. People sometimes claim that sales & trading or equity research to investment banking are difficult, but they’re much easier than moving in from wealth management.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

You’ll learn about the trade-offs of Singapore and other locations in this article. The basic difference is that the international bulge bracket banks tend to be stronger in M&A advisory and weaker in equity and debt capital markets. If you have a bad day (client emergency, deal blow-up, last-minute pitch book, etc.),