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.
Almost everything here is in the form of interview Q&A article with readers who volunteered to contribute to the site.
We’ve written quite a few articles on sales & trading, so that gets its own separate area here as well.
Investment Banking Groups (Plus, Making Fun of Consultants)
- 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
- Apparel, Appliances, and Advisory: What You Do in the Consumer Retail Group at an Investment Bank
- Boutique Investment Banks vs. Bulge Bracket Banks
- Boutiques vs. Bulge Bracket, Round 2: Underdog Victory?
- Debt Capital Markets 101: How You Break In, What You Do, and What You Do Next
- ECM Independent Advisors: Tougher Police Than the SEC?
- From Boutique to Middle-Market to Bulge Bracket: Got Rankings?
- Holla Back, Office: 7 Reasons You Shouldn't Work In The Back Office
- Industry Groups vs. Product Groups: Got Exit Opps?
- Investment Banker vs. Management Consultant: Why the Banker Wins with a Knockout in Round 1
- Investment Banking Groups: The Legend Of UBS LA
- Mergers & Acquisitions: What You Do Every Day
- Planes, Trains and Capital Equipment: What You Do In the Industrials Group at an Investment Bank
- 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?
- Tales From The Back Office: How To Take No Prisoners And Fight Your Way Into The Front
- The Buy-Side vs. The Sell-Side: The Worst Way to Categorize Finance Firms?
- What You Do In Equity Capital Markets, Part 2: The Equity Syndicate
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
- From Canada to Hong Kong – A One-Way Ticket to Landing a Job in Investment Consulting?
- From London to the Middle East: How to Break Into Investment Banking in Dubai
- From Top Chef to Top Bank: How to Break Into Investment Banking in Canada
- 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 Network Like a Ninja in London and Break Into Finance with Low Grades and a Non-Target School on Your CV
- 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: Australia Edition
- Investment Banking: Canada Edition
- Investment Banking: Dubai Edition
- Investment Banking: Italy Edition
- Investment Banking: Pakistan Edition
- Investment Banking: South Africa Edition
- Investment Consulting in Hong Kong: The Path to 50-Hour Finance Workweeks, Solid Pay and Enticing Perks?
- Money, Hours, Models, Bottles: Investment Banking in New York, California, and Everywhere In Between
- 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
Sales & Trading
- 48 Hours in the Life of a Sales & Trading Intern
- All About Automated Trading: What It Is and What It Isn't
- Credit Derivatives Trading in Tokyo: Interview
- From Middle-Office Operations to Front-Office Sales & Trading: How One Reader Made the Leap and How You Can Do It Too
- 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
- Sales & Trading vs. Investment Banking, Part 1 - Recruiting
- Sales & Trading vs. Investment Banking, Part 2: Lifestyle, Co-Workers, Pay & Exit Opportunities
- 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?
Private Wealth Management / Private Banking
Proprietary Trading (Prop Trading)
