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Investment and Trading Books If you read all of the investment books below, you will probably have a broader knowledge of investments than any...

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Investment and Trading Books

If you read all of the investment books below, you will probably have a broader knowledge of investments than any financial planner you will ever meet. They are only roughly sorted by subject, but at the bottom of the list there is a selection of the very best ones, and the order in which you [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Be an Investment Banker

Everyone hears a lot about investment banking while in school, and it seems to be the coolest thing since the wheel. The point of this post is not to bash on sellside, but just to give an idea of why many people prefer the buyside. Equity Research A different industry Investment banking is really concentrated in a [...]
Top International Business Schools

This is an attempt to categorize of non-US business schools in terms of reputation. The issue with international school rankings is that it makes little sense to compare schools with a similar reputation but a vast geographical distance (for example, Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands and HKUST in Hong Kong), so the categorization includes two global groups (“Ultra Elites” and ”Elites”) followed by and extra level of [...]
Hedge Fund Interviews

Most of the times, your attempt to move into a hedge fund will begin with an informational interview with a HF manager. Informational interviews can turn into real interviews very quickly, and a lot of the things that you talk about in an informational interview are pretty much the same that it would come up in a formal interview. In any case, the key is to [...]
A Day in the Life of an Investment Research Associate

Investment Research Associate (Major Mutual Fund Firm) 7:00 a.m.: Arrive at the office. 7:01: Read The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, paying particular attention to articles about the industry you follow. 7:30: Listen to morning call voice mails from sell-side analysts. (“Each sell-side firm has a morning meeting, and the highlights are sent via the institutional salesperson [...]
London City Recruitment Agencies

The agencies below have been sourced from / recommended by a mix of recruitment websites, commentators and professionals operating in the City/financial services sector. * denotes those agencies that are NOT purely focused on ‘CITY’ recruiting alone, ie may also recruit into financial positions in industry. All operate globally unless otherwise specified. Locations and Sectors in bold [...]