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The Complete Excel Shortcuts Guide for Investment Banking Analysts
Master the Skills That Separate Top Performers from Everyone Else It's 2:30 AM on a Tuesday. You're still at your desk, squinting at a DCF model that should have been finished hours ago. Your mouse hand is cramping from endless clicking through Excel menus, and you're...
One-on-One Career Counseling
One-on-One Coaching (Meridith Dennes) Reflecting on my own 15-year career journey working at top-tier bulge bracket investment banks and global financial institutions, I understand the complexities and challenges people face when recruiting for a job...
They Hired Over You. Now What?
When banks hire rainmakers from the outside, senior VPs and Directors need a different playbook For many senior Vice Presidents and Directors, the final leap to Managing Director suddenly feels out of reach. A couple of years ago, the path was clearer. Put in the...
Why Lateral Recruiting in Your Promotion Year Almost Never Works
Why Recruiting as AN3, ASO3, or VP3/4 Is Risky—And Why 2025-2027 Makes It Worse You've put in the years—closed deals, pulled all-nighters, proven yourself. Now you're in your promotion year and thinking about making a move. Maybe you want a better platform, the...
2023 Investment Banking Compensation Report
The published 2023 Investment Banking Compensation Report by Prospect Rock Partners provides a comprehensive analysis of compensation trends across investment banking. Based on responses from almost 1,000 investment banking professionals (representing 98% of total...
The Great Poach: How Wall Street’s Elite Banks Are Raiding Each Other for Proven Talent
As deal pipelines strengthen and attrition looms, elite banks are abandoning passive recruiting to aggressively target proven performers from direct competitors. The lateral recruiting market for investment bankers has entered a new era—one that looks nothing like the...
Wall Street Reverses Course: Johnson Report Projects Broadly Positive Bonuses for 2025
In a dramatic reversal from earlier projections, the financial services industry is now bracing for broadly positive year-end bonuses across most sectors in 2025, according to Johnson Associates' latest report released November 5, 2025. This marks a significant shift...
Why F-1 STEM OPT Students Can Finally Breathe Again: What the October Clarification Really Means
The first sign of hope since September's chaos—though banks are still figuring out what comes next What Actually Happened September 19, 2025 felt like a gut punch for international students trying to break into investment banking. Trump signed an executive action...
The $400B AI Spending Spree Hits a Wall: Why Your IB Job Might be Safer Than You Think
The numbers are staggering. Tech giants Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet are on track to spend nearly $400 billion on AI-focused capital expenditures in 2025, with Morgan Stanley projecting an additional $2.9 trillion in AI-related investment between 2025 and...
OpenAI Just Hired 100 Ex-Bankers to Replace You: Here’s the Timeline
Beyond Goldman’s 1,000 Layoffs: How AI Could Reshape Investment Banking Compensation and Careers
Image Credit: NY Post The Paradox On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs posted results that most banks would celebrate without qualification: profit up 37% to $4.1 billion, revenue climbing 20% to $15.18 billion, investment banking fees surging 42%. The firm is on track for its...