It’s not all glamour and adrenalin on the buy-side, you know. A very few people live the actual life of a hedge fund titan making billion dollar trades in nanoseconds. A slightly larger number are close enough to the action […]
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Creating the Next Generation of Conservation Finance
At a time of rising climate activism, The Conservation Fund (TCF) – partnering with Goldman Sachs – has tapped the capital markets with an inaugural debt issuance to scale its mission: protecting 1 million acres of America’s privately held working […]
Interview with Sid Klein, Founder & CIO at Global Alternative Investments
Mr. Klein is Founder and CIO of Global Alternative Investments (GAI). His 37 years of experience began as a stockbroker working at local and multi-national firms, where he developed his knowledge in the US, Japanese and Chinese equity markets, along […]
Four Years in Startups
Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point, or the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley’s startup scene—what cynics called a bubble, optimists called the future, and my future co-workers, high on the fumes of […]
The (Untapped) Opportunities Within Asia’s Payments Landscape by Goldman Sachs
Online payments are quickly dethroning cash as king across Asia. We sat down with Goldman Sachs’ Geddes Johnson to discuss the untapped opportunities — and latest misconceptions — within Asia’s payments landscape. In your role in Investment Banking, you spend a lot of time […]
The secretary who saw traders misbehaving after a few drinks
The judgement in the “witch’s hat” employment tribunal has been given, with a win for prime brokerage product manager, Stacey Macken. After funding the court case from savings and a loan she had been asking for compensation of as much as […]
The 28 nicest fixed income traders and analysts on Wall Street
One day, it seems, Wall Street will be full of the good guys trying to save the planet. For the moment, though, there’s just a normal cross section of the good and the not so good, and the good are mostly marked […]
‘Only households earning $350k+ are happy in cities.’
A favourite question during quiet times on the trading floor is always, “How much do you really need to earn?” Like really? Over at the Reformed Broker podcast, they discussed this very same issue in the context of some ‘research’ recently published on Marketwatch which said you need […]
Comment: The best bankers don’t make their money from banking
When outsiders look at the pay earned by people on Wall Street or in the City of London, they probably think people in the banking industry are wealthy because of their day jobs. It’s true, some are. But in my experience, the most […]
Nightmare for Deutsche Banker doing two jobs for one salary
When Garth Ritchie left Deutsche Bank at the start of the current restructuring program, Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing announced that for the time being, he would assume direct responsibility for the investment banking operations himself. Even though Sewing is a retail […]
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