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Capital Markets vs. Investment Banking: Deals, Careers, Recruiting, Exits, and Offer Decisions

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Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking? Do you learn anything?

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

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Some argue that GE offers the best of both worlds: the opportunity to fund innovation and growth – as in venture capital – plus the ability to limit downside risk and invest in proven companies – as in private equity. Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms.

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Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance: Careers, Recruiting, Financial Modeling, and More

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This article will focus on careers and recruiting , while the accompanying YouTube video will discuss the technical/modeling aspects in more detail. The term “Project Finance” at large banks refers to a group that operates like Debt Capital Markets or Leveraged Finance but for infrastructure rather than normal companies.

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

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The more significant equity research vs. investment banking differences relate to recruiting and careers , including points such as the compensation and exit opportunities. If you do IB, you can get into deal-based roles ( private equity , corporate development , venture capital , etc.),

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Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Full Guide to the Industry, Recruiting, Careers, and Exits

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Sovereign wealth funds have much longer time horizons and more “permanent capital” than traditional PE firms, hedge funds, and funds of funds, and these points create differences in timing, strategy, and willingness to pay. Most SWFs do not recruit undergraduates, with some exceptions, such as GIC and Temasek (if you fit their profile).

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How to Get an Investment Banking Internship

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The IB internship recruiting timeline is now so insane that even mainstream news sources like the Wall Street Journal are writing about it (“ The Race Is On to Hire Interns for 2025. In practice, this means you must be on top of IB internship recruiting from Year 1 of university if you’re in the U.S. Wealth management.

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Venture Capital Interview Questions: What to Expect and How to Prepare

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Look around online, and you will quickly discover that most coverage of venture capital interview questions is junk. Categories of Venture Capital Interview Questions I would split VC interview questions into 6 main categories. Venture Capital Interview Questions: Fit / Background Q: Walk me through your resume.

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