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Live Intel: Which Banks Are Hiring, What They Want, When They’re Deciding
Get Real-Time Recruiting Intel Your Competition Never Sees While you're refreshing Goldman Sachs' careers page for the hundredth time, students enrolled in Prospect Rock Academy are accessing recruiting market intelligence through Meridith's 36,000+ financial services...
Wall Street Bonuses Rise a Third Year: What Johnson Associates’ 2026 Forecast Means for Bankers
Johnson Associates expects Wall Street bonuses to rise for a third straight year, led by equity and deal bankers. Here is what the forecast, third-quarter pay accruals and the bonus calendar mean if you are thinking about a move. Wall Street bonuses are set to rise...
How the Midterms Could Affect Investment Banking Recruiting: What a Democratic Congress Means for Your Group, Your Firm and Your Next Move
The election will not set your bank’s hiring plan. But it could change which groups are busy, which firms are hiring and how hard it is to move. Here is how to read it for your own seat. The midterm results landed this week, and Wall Street spent the following days...
What a Partner Seat Really Means: How Partnership Titles Work at Goldman, the Boutiques and the Big Banks, and What They Are Worth
"Partner" is the most prized word on the Street and one of the least consistent. Here is how to tell what a partner offer is actually worth before you take it. Every other autumn, Goldman Sachs calls a group of managing directors and tells them they have made partner....
When Your Bank Reorganizes: What Merged Groups, New Co-Heads and Reporting Changes Mean for Your Title, Coverage and Bonus
A reorg memo rarely tells you what it means for you. But it can change who staffs you, who credits your deals and who speaks for you when bonuses are set. Year-end is reorg season. The memos tend to land between October and January, after the budget is set and before...
When Your Sector Turns: How Bankers in a Hot Coverage Group Should Think About a Downturn in Their Sector
The Graceful Exit: How to Leave Investment Banking Without Burning Bridges
Anyone planning to leave investment banking eventually considers going out in style. Wall Street has a long tradition of people who did. The ones who left quietly tend to have done better. The Op-Ed On March 14, 2012, Goldman Sachs employees opened the New York Times...
Coverage or Product? How Your Group Shapes Your Skills, Pay, Lateral Options and Exits
A few senior moves this fall say a lot about how banks think about talent right now. Goldman Sachs hired Joseph Servi, SMBC's co-head of asset-backed securities and head of digital infrastructure and esoteric ABS origination, as a managing director in AI...
Layoff Season: How Banks Decide Who Goes Before Bonuses, and How to Read the Signs
Every fall, bankers ask us some version of the same question. The deal tape looks better. Profits are up. Why is my bank still talking about cuts? This year the question is sharper. Barclays says it will cut about 5,000 roles in...
When Your MD Leaves: A Guide to Team Moves, Non-Competes and Non-Solicits in U.S. Investment Banking
When a managing director resigns, the vice presidents and associates who worked most closely with them often wonder whether they will be asked to follow. In many cases they are not, and even when they are, whether they can make the move depends on factors largely...
The Private Equity Door Is Narrowing
What slower fundraising and stuck exits mean for private equity hiring, and for bankers planning a move to the buy side For most analysts and associates, private equity is still the default next step. It is also where the pipeline is tightest. U.S. PE deal value fell...
Apollo Delays On-Cycle Again. What It May Mean for the Class of 2028.
In the span of two weeks, both sides of the analyst-to-associate pipeline moved. On October 5, Citi said it is cutting its investment banking analyst program from three years to two. On October 15, Business Insider reported that Apollo is delaying recruiting for its...
An Investment Banker’s Guide to Sending Emails by Level
In banking, the more senior you are, the shorter your emails get. It is a running joke on every deal team, and it is also a fairly precise description of how the job changes, and of what juniors get wrong when they try to skip ahead. Every banker knows the pattern....