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The Truth About Investment Banking Hours – Myth vs. Reality

The Truth About Investment Banking Hours – Myth vs. Reality

For those that have been following this blog, you all know that I started my career a while ago as an investment banker working in an M&A industry group. I went through 20+ interviews and close to 10 superdays. Got rejected over and over again before somehow managing to land an offer during the last […]

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7 Best Investment Banking Exit Opportunities

7 Best Investment Banking Exit Opportunities

Let’s be honest – nobody who starts their career as an investment banker plans to stay for more than two to three years. Throughout your entire life in college, you have had all the freedom in the world to do what you want whenever you want, and working in investment banking throws all that out […]

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Investing Banking, Private Equity and Hedge Fund Salaries and Bonuses

Investing Banking, Private Equity and Hedge Fund Salaries and Bonuses

Practically everyone is initially drawn to a finance career because of the money, which seems to be all that college students care about nowadays. Most are broke, have a bunch of student loans and do not know exactly what they want to do in life. So the safest and riskless solution is to find the […]

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10 Steps to Being a Top Bucket Ranked Banking Analyst

10 Steps to Being a Top Bucket Ranked Banking Analyst

Congratulations, you broke into banking and only have to stick it out for two grueling years before moving to the buyside. All the hard work is done and your banking years are just a quick stepping stone to the buyside. In reality, your first two years out of college are the most important when it […]

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