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Anyone who has been a student of the industry of public finance for years can feel it. Well, if you are at a bulgebracket firm, I would be more concerned than if you are a non-bulgebracket firm. Rumblings in the street that there may be more reductions in force coming. Friedman Search LLC.
Were they all from bulgebrackets or small regional firms? I have already spoken to most of those special candidates at one time or another over the last ten to twelve years I have been recruiting only public finance professionals. Was there a trend to the candidates that I was now talking to? Friedman Search LLC.
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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. based bulgebrackets (GS, MS, JPM, Citi, and BofA) are the strongest international banks, and Avendus, Kotak, JM Financial, ICICI, and Axis are the strongest domestic firms.
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Bigger and better Just five years ago when JP Morgan surpassed $500 billion in prime brokerage balances, the bank’s head of global head of prime finance, Jonathan Cossey, quipped: “Next stop, one trillion!”. They need a financing platform to support all of that. They are now trading in all these other asset classes.
These pre-MBA programs are the most prominent in consulting , finance, and technology , which makes sense since most MBA students target these industries. We’ll return to this point later, but in finance, it’s more common to do a pre-MBA internship at a small VC/PE firm or boutique bank rather than a bulgebracket bank.
There’s plenty of information online about case studies in finance interviews (IB, PE, etc.), They plan to target these smaller and mid-sized banks because they’re easier to reach and they have fewer resources for pitch book creation. Also, small banks depend far less on long and detailed pitch books than large banks.
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The apparent cover-up / censorship here is also quite disturbing (mainstream media ignored this for days until Reuters / Yahoo Finance picked it up , and the Co-Group Head at BofA seemingly deleted his LinkedIn profile). Analyst / Associate: “OK, what do we need for the pitch books ?” Please quit immediately if this is your job.
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