Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 10, 2024

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. And wealth managers at large banks may advise people with as little as a few hundred thousand to invest. Think: benchmarking portfolios rather than modeling companies.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms. 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.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

No Right or Wrong Answers – Some technical questions have correct answers, but many market and investment ones do not. There are better and worse explanations for your answers, but in the absence of time travel, VC interviewers can’t determine if your startup investment pitch was “correct.” Which market is attractive?

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Mergers and Inquisitions

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

They do not invest in risky biotech startups attempting to cure cancer (at least not within their traditional PE portfolios). These firms lie in the territory of life science venture capital firms that invest in high-risk, early-stage companies. Some PE firms also invest in this vertical, typically via separate groups (see below).

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Mergers and Inquisitions

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This site has already covered investment banking interview questions , private equity interview questions , and venture capital interview questions , so the next topic on the list seemed to be growth equity interview questions. The same goes for “firm and process” questions, though some would argue they’re of the same importance in GE.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 5, 2025

If you had to pick a single industry that could be interesting to every hedge fund investing in individual companies, it might be biotech. Its more of an industry focus at the intersection of several other strategies , such as long/short equity , event-driven investing , and even merger arbitrage. also find their way into the industry.

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