2008 Investment Banking Analyst Bonuses: I Told You So

Posted by Inquisitor on July 4th, 2008

Around a month ago when bonus discussions were heating up, I took a different approach from most others and looked at each bank’s…. investment banking revenue.
Based on this analysis, I concluded that bonuses would be down 20-30% overall:
“…But if I had to guess, I’d say that bonuses will be down 20-30% overall. Something in the [...]

What Investment Bankers Actually Do

Posted by Inquisitor on November 28th, 2007

I’ve seen lots of explanations of what investment bankers actually do, but none have seemed particularly good or satisfactory. I think I can sum up what we actually do in 2 words (ok, and 1 picture):

Ari Gold.
If you haven’t seen Entourage (shame on you, but I guess that’s possible), an alternate explanation will be [...]