Groups & Regions
Here you can find everything you need to know about working in different groups within finance – M&A, ECM, and so on – as well as in different regions and cities across the world.
Plus, all sorts of different areas beyond investment banking – such as Sales & Trading, Equity Research, Private Wealth Management, Prop Trading, and more.
And we even get to make fun of consultants a good amount as well (since that never gets old).
Investment Banking – Product Groups
- All About Equity Capital Markets: How You Get In, What You Do, and What You Do Next
- All About Leveraged Finance – from a Director in the UBS Leveraged Finance Team
- Corporate Banking 101: Create Twice the Value and Work Half the Hours?
- Debt Capital Markets 101: How You Break In, What You Do, and What You Do Next
- ECM Independent Advisors: Tougher Police Than the SEC?
- Industry Groups vs. Product Groups: Got Exit Opps?
- Mergers & Acquisitions: What You Do Every Day
- Private vs. Public M&A Deals: Got Divested Assets and a Stepped-Up Tax Basis?
- Restructuring: The Hottest Group In A Cooling Economy
- Structured Finance 101: What It Is and How You Break In
- Structured Finance: Debt Raising Made Easy, or Financial Weapon of Mass Destruction?
- The Initial Public Offering (IPO) Process: Got Facebook Shares?
- What You Do In Equity Capital Markets, Part 2: The Equity Syndicate
Investment Banking – Industry Groups
- Apparel, Appliances, and Advisory: What You Do in the Consumer Retail Group at an Investment Bank
- Bridges, Broadband, and Bankrupt State Governments: How to Break Into Public Finance
- Clean Tech Investment Banking: Work in Finance Without Corrupting Your Soul?
- Financial Institutions Groups (FIG) 101: Got Book Value?
- Healthcare Investment Banking: The Best Place to Check In When Other Bankers are on Their Career Death Beds?
- Industry Groups vs. Product Groups: Got Exit Opps?
- Media & Telecom Investment Banking: The Best Way to Advise Companies In Pursuit of World Domination?
- Metals & Mining Investment Banking: Got Divested Gold Mines?
- Planes, Trains and Capital Equipment: What You Do In the Industrials Group at an Investment Bank
- Public Finance, Part 2: A Day in the Life, Deals and Modeling, Exit Opportunities and More
- Real Estate Investment Banking 101: Location, Location, Location
- Sports Investment Banking: The Best Way to Own Manchester United AND the Miami Heat?
- Technology Investment Banking: Bubbles, Failed IPOs, and Unprofitable Billion-Dollar Companies?
- The Financial Sponsors Group: Masters of the Financial Universe, or Humble Servants of PE Firms and Hedge Funds?
- The Industrials Group (Part Three): Maritime Shipping Investment Banking
- Transportation & Logistics Investment Banking: The Industrials Group, Part 2
Types of Finance Firms and Types of Banks
- Boutique Investment Banks vs. Bulge Bracket Banks
- Boutiques vs. Bulge Bracket, Round 2: Underdog Victory?
- From Boutique to Middle-Market to Bulge Bracket: Got Rankings?
- Investment Banking Groups: The Legend Of UBS LA
- The Buy-Side vs. The Sell-Side: The Worst Way to Categorize Finance Firms?
Investment Banking – Regions
- Breaking Into Investment Funds in Eastern Europe: How to Get Screwed on Your Bonus and Then Leave for Ethical Reasons
- Credit Derivatives Trading in Tokyo: Interview
- Emerging Power or Emerging Bubble? What You Do in the Latin America Coverage Group at an Investment Bank
- Finance in Canada, Part 2: Investment Banking to Pension Funds and Everything in Between
- Finance in the Middle East: The Infographic
- From Big 4 Accounting to Private Equity at a Canadian Pension Fund: A One-Way Ticket to Earning More and Becoming a Deal-Maker?
- From Liberal Arts Major with No Finance Experience in the UK to Equity Research in… Mexico
- From London to the Middle East: How to Break Into Investment Banking in Dubai
- From Non-Target School to Sales & Trading to Commodities Banking in Western Canada: How to Break In and Survive as a Female in Finance
- From Physics Major with Low A-Levels and No Finance Experience in the UK to Investment Banking… in India
- From Top Chef to Top Bank: How to Break Into Investment Banking in Canada
- How to Advise on a Mega M&A Deal in Latin America and Survive in One Piece: A Story from the Inside
- How to Break Into Asset Management in Germany – from a Part-Time, Non-Target, Distance Learning MBA Program
- How to Break Into Finance in London Coming from an Unknown School in Eastern Europe
- How to Defy the Odds and Break Into Private Equity in China as a Foreigner – Even as Everyone Else is Getting Deported
- How to Network Like a Ninja in London and Break Into Finance with Low Grades and a Non-Target School on Your CV
- Investment Banking from Russia: With Love?
- Investment Banking in India: How to Break In Even If You’ve Been Out of School for 5+ Years and You Don’t Have a Finance Background
- Investment Banking in Saudi Arabia: The Hottest and Most Overlooked Emerging Market in the World?
- Investment Banking Recruiting in Europe: London vs. Frankfurt vs. Milan
- Investment Banking, Hong Kong Edition: The Best Place to Bank If You Know Mandarin?
- Investment Banking: Australia Edition
- Investment Banking: Canada Edition
- Investment Banking: Dubai Edition
- Investment Banking: Italy Edition
- Investment Banking: Pakistan Edition
- Investment Banking: South Africa Edition
- Investment Banking… from Vancouver to Korea to Everywhere In Between
- Money, Hours, Models, Bottles: Investment Banking in New York, California, and Everywhere In Between
- On the Job in the Nordic Renewable Energy Investment Industry: The Coolest Place Ever to Work?
- What to Expect In Your Private Equity Internship in China: Deals, Culture, Pay, and How You Break In
- What’s the Big Deal About Emerging Markets?
- Which Language Should You Learn to Break Into Investment Banking?
- Why You Can’t Break Into Private Equity as a Foreigner in China
Consulting
- All About Operational Consulting: Moving Beyond PowerPoint to Add Real Value to Companies?
- From Canada to Hong Kong – A One-Way Ticket to Landing a Job in Investment Consulting?
- Investment Banker vs. Management Consultant: Why the Banker Wins with a Knockout in Round 1
- Investment Consulting in Hong Kong: The Path to 50-Hour Finance Workweeks, Solid Pay and Enticing Perks?
The Back Office
- Busting the Front Office Analyst Myth: Three Unexpected Truths You Need to Move from Admin to Analyst
- Holla Back, Office: 7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Work In The Back Office
- Secrets from the Presentation Center: A Night in the Life of a Graveyard Shift Operator
- Tales From The Back Office: How To Take No Prisoners And Fight Your Way Into The Front
- Tales from the Graveyard Shift, Part 2: The Battle of the Front Desk
- The Back Office at a Hedge Fund: Time to Jump Off a Cliff?
- The Nightmares Before, During, and After Christmas on the Graveyard Shift at The Most Successful Bank in the World
Sales & Trading
- 48 Hours in the Life of a Sales & Trading Intern
- A Day in the Life of a S&T Intern at a Bulge Bracket Bank in New York: 5 AM Wake-ups and Glorified Lunch Delivery Service?
- A Day in the Life of an Options Trader at a Bulge Bracket Bank: From Delta to Vega and Back Again
- All About Automated Trading: What It Is and What It Isn’t
- Convertible Bond Sales 101: Got Liquidity?
- Credit Derivatives Trading in Tokyo: Interview
- Equities Gone Wild: How to Break into Institutional Dealing at an Investment Bank
- From Middle-Office Operations to Front-Office Sales & Trading: How One Reader Made the Leap and How You Can Do It Too
- From Private Equity to Trading: Shady Deals, Soft Skills and Trading From Home
- From Sales & Trading to Investment Banking: How to Hop Over the Fence
- From Visa-Less Foreigner in the UK to the FICC Trading Desk at a Top Bulge Bracket Bank: How to Make the Leap
- On the Trading Floor
- Prop Trading vs. Bulge Bracket Sales & Trading: Fatty Bonuses vs. Restrictive Regulations That Drain Your Bank Account?
- Sales & Trading Interview Domination, Part 2: Markets, Brainteasers, and Mental Math
- Sales & Trading Interviews, Part 1: How to Dominate the “Fit” Questions
- Sales & Trading Networking: 3 Success Stories from a Non-Target School and What You Can Learn from Them
- Sales & Trading vs. Investment Banking, Part 1 – Recruiting
- Sales & Trading vs. Investment Banking, Part 2: Lifestyle, Co-Workers, Pay & Exit Opportunities
- The Equities Trading Floor: What You Really Do Every Day, and Why You Don’t Even Have to Work in Dallas
- The Non-Target School Sales & Trading Recruiting Process: How it Works from Beginning to End
- The Perfect Sales & Trading Resume Template?
- Traders and Brokers: Bud Fox vs. Gordon Gekko?
- Trading Psychology: How to Think Like a Trader
- What Do You Do In Fixed Income Besides Bankrupting Your Firm with Toxic Assets?
- What You Actually Do In Sales & Trading, Part 2: Equity Trading
Equity Research
- Buy, Sell, or Hold: How to Break Into Equity Research and Pitch Stocks Like a Pro
- Equity Research: A Day in the Life, Pay, and Exit Opportunities – Got Hedge Funds?
- From Liberal Arts Major with No Finance Experience in the UK to Equity Research in… Mexico
- How to Get Fired from Your Equity Research Job in Dubai by… Opening a Library in Pakistan
Private Wealth Management / Private Banking
Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading)
- From Engineering to Prop Trading: How to Make the Leap, and How to Survive on the Job
- Prop Trading 101: How You Break In, What You Do, and How Long It Takes to Make $10 Million and Retire to Your Own Private Beach in Thailand
- Prop Trading vs. Bulge Bracket Sales & Trading: Fatty Bonuses vs. Restrictive Regulations That Drain Your Bank Account?







