More candidates, fewer jobs, lower salaries
The latest piece of research from Morgan McKinley doesn’t make great reading if you’re trying to find a new job. According to the recruitment ...
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News & Advice
16 May 2008
Week in Review: Swinging the axe at Bear, JP, Morgan, Calyon, Natixis and UBSThere were lots more redundancies last week. Everyone from managing directors (Morgan Stanley) to associates (UBS) felt the steel. Bear Stearns continued to feel the ...
16 May 2008
15 May 2008
French banks get heavy handedForget the 35-hour week and jobs for life, French banks are showing signs of Anglo-Saxon-style ruthlessness. So far it’s restricted to London, but it’s reasonably ...
15 May 2008
Can Pandit handle it (and should you steer clear of Citi if not)?If Meredith Whitney’s right, Citi’s going to the dogs no matter how hard Vikram Pandit tries to bed it down amongst the roses. Whitney ...
15 May 2008
Dr Dread: Nastiness is by no means over yetIgnore what banking bosses say: the nice decade is most definitely past and the nasty decade is upon us, says the purveyor of gloom…. ...
14 May 2008
When is a sabbatical not a sabbatical?By some strange coincidence, more and more senior bankers are apparently opting to spend six months stamp collecting or studying Ancient Greek. The S word ...
14 May 2008
Barclays Capital sprays cash at ABN M&A bankersWho says Barclays Capital doesn’t do M&A advisory? Bob Diamond’s decision to hire wholesale from ABN suggests BarCap wants to do M&A and wants to ...
13 May 2008
Tranched: Life after CDOs, Week OneOur new columnist, a CDO pro recently ejected from a European bank, reflects on the new reality of life minus job: As my distinguished predecessor ends ...
13 May 2008
Getting into infrastructureWhile all other bubbles have burst, investors are still hurling money at infrastructure. Rumour has it there are even jobs to be had in the ...
13 May 2008
Is Merrill Lynch really the place to be?Merrill Lynch is attracting some heavy hitters from rivals. Is Thain really about to turn things around, or is he just opening the Merrill cheque ...
12 May 2008
Getting out of CDOs, Part IIA handful of people have been let go from the likes of JPMorgan and Deutsche, but surprisingly little CDO blood has been spilt so far. ...
12 May 2008
Editor’s take: Toothless regulators won’t bite bonusesIt’s down to regulators to reform the bonus system. And given regulators are powerless to intervene, reform looks as likely as a small village in ...
09 May 2008
Big bonuses won’t be back until 2011The latest missive from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicts bonuses will fall 40% in 2008, and won’t reach last year’s levels ...
09 May 2008
Week in review: Hooray for hedge funds, more cuts at investment banksIt was a good week for hedge funds – unless you were GLG. Banks were still busily lopping staff, although there were rays of hiring ...
08 May 2008
Candidates abusing recruitersWith jobs harder to come by, bankers are behaving badly towards recruiters and headhunters, who are suddenly unable to slot them into comfortable new positions. ...
08 May 2008
Private equity jobs in Australia and the USFailed in London? Try Sydney or New York. Rumour has it there are private equity jobs to be had in both cities. Predictably, however, only ...
07 May 2008
The Insider: When to do an MBAWill an MBA really do wonders for your banking career, asks George Trower, our resident columnist and banker on the inside. The MBA is ...
07 May 2008
The real tragedy of the Microsoft/Yahoo deal collapse…...isn’t that Yahoo’s share price plummeted 15%, or that Microsoft now has no online advertising strategy. It’s the loss of bankers’ fees. Depending on where ...
07 May 2008
Do careers die in Shanghai?Forget ‘Shanghai, Dubai, or goodbye’. Is a move to an emerging market really a one-way bet for your career? Banks are busy transferring as many ...
06 May 2008
Making the move to MumbaiWall Street and the Square Mile might be kicking investment bankers into the street, but India is taking them on by the team-load. Sourabh Chattopadhyay, director ...
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