Investment Bankers

Facebook To Big Banks: Have Some Prestige Instead Of Money

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Allen, Investment Bankers, Bank of America, Underwriters, Facebook, Barclays, Yahoo, Goldman Sachs, Video, Zynga, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Reuters, Ipo, Mark Zuckerberg, J.P. Morgan, Initial Public Offering, Silicon Valley, Technology News

By Alistair Barr and Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 (Reuters) - Facebook will pay a fee of just 1.1 percent ...

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How Working On Wall Street Will Make You Sick

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.15.2012

The life of a Wall Street banker is glamorous -- if you don't mind grappling with alcoholism, eating disorders, Crohn's disease and arthritis. Thes...

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How UBS Hijacked an Aviation Legend

Jim Egan | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Amelia Earhart, Bankers, Banking Crisis, Aviation, Ubs, Investors, Formula One, Advertising, Investment Banking, Investment Bankers, Business News

In pursuing a brand comeback strategy, UBS' "We Will Not Rest" ad campaign is false and misleading, and reveals a UBS orientation in stark contrast to its claims.

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Top 10 Ways You Know You Are Dealing With an Investment Banker

John R. Talbott | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Investment Banks, Wall Street, Investment Bankers, Investment Banking, Occupy Wall Street, Business News

I got introduced to speak at Occupy San Diego tonight as an ex-investment banker from Goldman Sachs. So, I started my talk by saying, "I was an investment banker, and I'm sorry." I then went on to list the top ten ways you know you are dealing with an investment banker.

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Junior Investment Bankers Unhappy With Paychecks, Direction Of Their Industry: Survey

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Financial Industry, Rik Kopelan, Financial Sector, Investment Bankers, Junior Investment Bankers, Interns, Layoffs, Investment Banks, Wall Street Internships, Wall Street Layoffs, Wall Street Interns, Wall Street, Capstone Partnership, Investment Banking, Business News

As their industry shifts focus and work becomes ever more demanding, junior investment bankers are saying they're less satisfied with their jobs, acco...

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JPMorgan To Give Free iPads To Bankers

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blackberry, Apple Ipad, Blackberry Playbook, Apple, Investment Bankers, Jpmorgan, Bankers, Rim, Ipad, Technology News

Who says the iPad isn't for the enterprise? JPMorgan is giving free iPads to its investment bankers, Bloomberg News reports. In a move that is c...

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Deutsche Bank Pays Investment Bankers More Than Goldman Sachs

Bloomberg | Gavin Finch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Revenue, Economy, Investment Bankers, Investment Bank, Salary, Business News, Third-Quarter Loss, Wall Street, Business News

Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, set aside more in compensation for employees of its corporate and investment bank in the first nine months o...

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Slowing Down

Elizabeth Killingsworth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Lawyer, Unemployment, Attorney, Elizabeth Killingsworth, Investment Bankers, Economy, Third World America, Politics News

For many of us, the day we lose our jobs is the first day that we slow down - ever.

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'13 Bankers' In 4 Pictures: Why Wall Street Profits Are Out Of Whack

James Kwak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Too Big to Fail, Financial Sector, Lehman Brothers, Arianna's Reading, Books, 13 Bankers, Gdp, Investment Bankers, Financial Deregulation, Economy, Financial Crisis, Books News

We're not saying that everyone has to agree with everything we say about these pictures. But they make clear what kind of financial system we have today. And they need some kind of explanation.

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Wall Street Bankers Are Overpaid, Says Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack said investment bankers are overpaid and Wall Street compensation won't decrease much because firms don't want to lo...

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Dear Fellow Owners

Pat Choate | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Fraud, Representatives, Aig, Wall Street, Gm, Bailout, Political Contributions, Investment Bankers, Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, Senators, Business News

I never wanted to own part of a bank, insurance company, or automaker. But now I do. If you are a U.S. citizen, you do too.

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Holiday Songfest: It's Another Ho-Ho-Horowitz Christmas!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Parody Songs, Mitch McConnell, Christmas Parodies, John Boehner, Investment Bankers, Balloon Boy, Olympia Snowe, Bankers, Congress, Holiday Songs, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Andy Warhol, Fame, Nobel Prize, Wall Street, Holiday Parodies, Bank Bailouts, Christmas Songs, Satire, Tiger Woods, Levi Johnston, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Celebrity, Health Care, Holiday Season, Politics News

Jingle Bells // Sarah sells // Now she's got a book // Truth? Or lies? // While she tries and tries // To be worth a second look. // Oh, the weather outside is frightful // And the GOP is spiteful

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The Media Drops to Its Knees for Ex-Bankers

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banker Profiles, Finance Journalism, David Webb, Investment Bankers, Bernard Madoff, Media, Business Media, Finance Industy, Media News

For so many years, financial types from Madoff down proclaimed to be doing something, when in fact they were doing nothing. And now that they're actually doing nothing, the media thinks that's something.

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Rising Tide

Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gatsby, Geraldine Fabrikant, David Leonhardt, Super-Rich, Edward Lear, Investment Bankers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Business News

We all prefer, like King Canute, to think we can control the tide, as we our treasury now loot, from reality to hide.

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From Lehman to Landscaping: A Laid-Off Banker, One Year Later

P.G. Sittenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Laid Off, Investment Banks, Lehman Brothers, Investment Bankers, Business News

After losing my job, I watched Lehman's stock price until the whole ship went under last fall. I needed a new source of income, so I moved to Dublin, Ohio to work for a lawn care company.

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Returning to the Scene of the Crime

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Securitization, Bond Market, Wall Street, Investment Bankers, Financial System, Larry Summers, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Systemic Risk, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Financial Regulation, Business News

We can expect a new wave of mortgage-backed bond defaults to hit the headlines any day now.

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Wall St. Unemployed Forced To Take Low-Wage Jobs

wsj.com | MARY PILON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street, New York City, Investment Bankers, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Bankers, Banking Industry, Business News

Carlos Araya used to order lobster, filet mignon and $200 bottles of red wine at the Palm Restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Now, he seats customers at...

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Bankers Balk at Fees

Tom Pappalardo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, TARP Money, Douglas Leech, Investment Bankers, Frank Pallotta, Federal Reserve, Bankers, Timothy Geithner, Centra Bank, Tarp, Business News

Can you imagine being stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean with these bankers and suddenly you get ill and need more water than what has been allotted to everyone?

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Dating A Banker Anonymous: Finance Girlfriends Form Support Group

New York Times | RAVI SOMAIYA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investment Banker Girlfriends, Investment Banker Wives, Finance, Dating a Banker, Investment Bankers, Dating a Banker Anonymous, Business News

[Women] shared their sad stories the other night at an informal gathering of Dating a Banker Anonymous, a support group founded in November to help wo...

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Reflections on Reconciliation: Paradox of Excess & Deprivation

Terry Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Excess, Human Family, Safety Net, Barack Obama, Reconciliation, US Airways Hudson River, U.S. Economy, US Airways Plane Crashes, Plane Crash Hudson River, Economy, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger, Sully, Bankers, Airline Prices, Chesley B. Sully Sullenberger, Healthcare Workers, Hudson River Plane Crash, Great Depression, Sully Pilot Hero, US Airways, Money, Investment Bankers, US Airways Crash, US Airways Pilot, Pensions, Airline Industry, US Economy, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, Sully Plane Crash, Schools, Healthcare, Business News

I wonder if Captain "Sully" Sullenberger's colleagues' pensions are secure. Somehow, I doubt it. Although airlines were the companies we used to loved to hate, airline employees are part of the family, too.

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A Forward Looking 5-Point Plan to End the Economic Crisis

Shafqat Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Treasury Department, White House, Investment Bankers, Economy, George W. Bush, Federal Reserve, Credit Crisis, Bankers, Housing Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, FInancial Markets, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Treasury, Banks, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Treasury Secretary, Home News

For too long the Democrats have surrendered the ground on taxes and free markets to the Republicans. Now is their chance to seize the initiative in these two areas with a simple 5-point plan.

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Bankers' Spouses Deprived Of Luxury Items During Downturn

New York Post | KRISTINA COOKE, CHELSEA EMERY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investment Bankers Wives, Schadenfreude, Interior Designers, Luxury Items, Bear Stearns, Investment Bankers, Business News

From Wednesday's New York Post, with the oh-so-packed headline "Execs Bear-ly $urviving": Less than 48 hours after news broke that Bear Stearns & Co....

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Citigroup To Cut 2,000 More Jobs

New York TImes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Citigroup, Citigroup Layoffs, Job Cuts, Traders, Investment Banks, Investment Bankers, Business News

Citigroup plans to lay off another 2,000 investment bankers and traders before the end of the month, people close to the situation said on Wednesday. ...

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IBanker Convicted Of Insider Trading

Reuters Via NYT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insider Trading Charges, Hafiz Naseem, Insider Trading, Credit Suisse, Investment Bankers, Business News

A federal jury Monday found a former Credit Suisse Group investment banker guilty of insider trading and conspiracy. Prosecutors accused the banker, ...

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IBanker Convicted Of Insider Trading

Reuters Via NYT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insider Trading Charges, Hafiz Naseem, Insider Trading, Credit Suisse, Investment Bankers, Business News

A federal jury Monday found a former Credit Suisse Group investment banker guilty of insider trading and conspiracy. Prosecutors accused the banker, ...

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