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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Mergers and Inquisitions

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”

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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Mergers and Inquisitions

If you hate high finance and leave, fine but why rule it out before even trying? And money printing and debt levels took off and never looked back. This is why I still recommend fields like investment banking and private equity to ambitious students: You want the optionality to earn a high income when youre young.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

In equity research, the goal is to get clients to pay for the teams research consistently , but revenue does not depend on deals or other specific events. But you would not build models for M&A deals, leveraged buyouts, or debt/equity issuances in research or at least, they would be far simpler than the IB versions.

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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

Mergers and Inquisitions

Sports Investment Banking Definition: In sports IB, bankers advise on equity and debt issuances, mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring deals for sports teams and leagues, sports-adjacent technology and services firms, and facilities such as arenas, stadiums, and racetracks. What is Sports Investment Banking? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce)?

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Wells Fargo's top ideas to help cushion your portfolio from rocky markets

CNBC: Investing

"There's a lot of news events and pretty material market-moving news events that all are going to converge in the months of July and August," said Darrell Cronk, president of Wells Fargo Investment Institute and chief investment officer for Wells Fargo's wealth and management division.

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General Atlantic follows Apollo in halting early recruitment of bankers

Financial Times - Banking

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Single Store Generalist Shops | Why the Era is Coming to an End with Cole Strandberg

Focus Investment Banking

The era of the single store generalist Body Shop is coming to an end is the subject of this month’s series, and it’s based on a presentation I’ve been giving at SEEMA Association events and beyond. So seller financing, it’s a good component, but not a good primary source of capital.