Do you want a career that pays you to learn about new things every day? A career that rewards you to predict the future and capitalize on market dislocations? A …
Career Guide to Wealth Management
Wealth management is an exciting, dynamic, and often misunderstood sector of the financial industry. For the right professionals, wealth management offers nearly unlimited upside potential. Realizing that potential, however, can …
High Frequency Trading: Today’s Landscape and Career Guide
HFT Overview Efficient Market Hypothesis states share prices reflect all information of a given security. That’s the high-level gist of it. When looking at names like Apple, you’ve likely noticed …
A guide to careers in private equity
If you are a young professional with an interest in finance, you cannot have failed to notice the rise of private equity investing over the last decade. Although this exceptional …
Career Guide – Private Equity
1. What is Private Equity? Private equity is an alternative investment asset class where funds are invested in non-listed private companies. Sometimes PE firms also invest in publicly listed companies …
Career Guide – Venture Capital
What is Venture Capital? Venture capital is growth capital provided to start-up companies and small, breakout businesses which are expected to grow rapidly but lack the funds or other resources …
Career Guide – Hedge Funds
What is a Hedge Fund? Hedge funds are exclusive and highly speculative investment vehicles utilizing a variety of unconventional strategies to generate absolute return for their investors. Let’s break that …
Career Guide – Portfolio/ Asset Management
What is Asset Management? Asset Management is the umbrella term for the business of managing financial investments on behalf of investors including risk management, asset selection and other management activities. …
Career Guide – Quants/ Financial Engineering
What is Quantitative Finance & Financial Engineering? Quantitative finance is the use of advanced mathematical concepts in the field of finance. This includes concepts like linear algebra, probability theory, multivariate …
Career Guide – Equity Research
Equity Research is the process of collecting relevant information about a company and processing that information into actionable recommendations for trading that company’s equity stock. Job Description Equity research analysts …