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Fundstrat's Tom Lee keeps making bold stock calls — and nailing them

CNBC: Investing

The co-founder of the independent financial research boutique doesn't expect to be right all the time, but leans on history and probability when making calls.

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Investment Banker Salary and Bonus Report: 2022 Update

Mergers and Inquisitions

Initially, it’s 100% cash, but a percentage will shift to stock and deferred compensation as you move up. As a later Associate or VP, it might be around 20-30% stock/deferred with a 3-year vesting period. Meanwhile, some elite boutique banks , such as Centerview, went up to $130K for Year 1 Analysts (!). at some smaller firms.

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Bulge Bracket Banks: 2024 Edition

Mergers and Inquisitions

Greenhill was formerly considered an “elite boutique,” at least by some people, so this deal could turn Mizuho into more of an investment bank and give it a greater presence outside Asia, which is why I listed it in the “Potential” category above. The elite boutique banks (Evercore, Lazard, Centerview, etc.)

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Why Investment Banking? How to Answer the Most Boring But Persistent Interview Question of All Time

Mergers and Inquisitions

a summer internship that converts into a full-time offer vs. a boutique internship in your 1 st or 2 nd year of university). These 1 – 2 “steppingstone internships” could be at any firm, but many students do them at boutique investment banks or small/startup private equity or venture capital firms.

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People Moves Monday: Updates from the trading desk

The TRADE

Head of UBS’ Neo business, Nej D’jelal, left the bank to join the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) as head of its Workspace platform, effective from the end of this month. He was most recently director of business development at boutique private investment vehicle, Ancora Investment, working specifically on long term investments.

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The TRADE’s most read stories of the year part three: Regulation, consolidation and resignation

The TRADE

September’s announcement marked the filing of a new NMS plan “to replace the three existing national market system plans which govern the public dissemination of real-time, consolidated equity market data for national market system stocks”.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

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 bulge bracket bank. Pre-MBA programs at large companies tend to be more common and important in tech and consulting; internships at boutique firms (via networking) are more common in finance.

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