2012 Bonus Recap: Investment Banking Bonuses Go Bust?
So we decided to do something a little… different for bonus news this year.
And no, not just because everyone was expecting bonuses to collapse in a fiery apocalypse.
What actually happened was far less destructive: bonuses decreased by less than what many people were expecting, and our predictions from a few months ago were almost 100% accurate.
Investment Banking Bonuses: 2007 to 2012
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2012 Investment Banking Bonus Predictions: Has Your Bank Account Been Occupied?
I’ve been getting requests to publish this year’s investment banking bonus predictions.
And I’d like to fulfill those requests, but there’s one small problem: there will be no bonuses this year.
Normally investment banks wire transfer analysts’ bonuses directly to their bank accounts upon announcing the numbers…
This year, however, it was revealed that protesters had Occupied the bank accounts of all analysts worldwide, hacking into banks’ websites and stealing all the funds before anyone could withdraw the money and blow it on a trip to Vegas (or a trip to Cain).
It’s unknown what the protesters will use funds for, but early rumors point to using the money to send envelopes containing white powder to banks worldwide.
Good luck getting those bonuses back!
2011 Investment Banking Analyst Bonuses: Is the World Slightly Less Flat?
Banks seem to announce bonuses later and later each year, and for good reason: with the economy in worse shape each time around (OK, maybe things improved slightly in 2010?) no one wants to be the first to commit to real numbers.
And while the US and Europe came very close to the brink of bankruptcy over the past year, banks themselves remained afloat – so they had enough money to award bonuses.
The good news is that even Citi and UBS were able to pay bonuses this year, and that my predictions a few months ago were on the low side.
But the bad news is that the actual numbers weren’t too much higher – and they won’t be much better next year, either.
The Cold, Hard Numbers
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