Investment Banking

No, Social Security Is Not Broke

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Google, Video, Facebook Patents, Social Security, Seven and a Half Things, Business News, Metlife, Medicare, James Murdoch, Investment Banking, Business News

There's good reason to doubt that the Trojan Horse entered Troy on this very date in 1184 BC, but there's no doubt you need to know seven and one half...

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8 Jobs That May Be Bad For Your Health (And What You Can Do About It)

The Huffington Post | Amanda L. Chan | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Standing Arthritis, Job Health Risks, Work Health Risks, Caregivers Depression, Job Health Problems, Job Health, Shift Work Sleep Disorder, Health Risk of Investment Bankers, Construction Lung Disease, Slidepollajax, Investment Banking, Health Hazards of Investment Banking, Health Related Investment Bankers, Healthy Living News

According to a recent study from the University of Southern California, Wall Street life may not be as great as it seems -- at least, when it comes to...

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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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Is Banking Immoral? Wrong Question.

Jedediah Purdy | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Banking Immoral, The One Percent, Bain Capital, David Brooks, Mitt Romney, Banking Crisis, Morals, Investment Banking, Nick Kristoff, Business News

This is how we've learned to talk about our economy: as a matter of personal virtue and vice, from the overdrawn consumer to the one-percenter with the fifteen percent tax rate and some senators' private numbers in his iPhone.

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Global Investment Banking Fees Plunge To Three-Year Low

Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Investment Banks, European Debt Crisis, Business News, Video, Investment Banking Fees 2011, Investment Banking, Investment-Banking-Fees, Business News

LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Global investment banking fees hit their lowest level for three years in 2011, costing $5 billion in lost income compare...

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The Investment Banking Profession As We Know It Is Over

Bloomberg | William D. Cohan | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Investment Banks, Ivy League Careers, Wall Street, Ivy League, Business News, Ivy League Schools, Investment Banking, Wall Street Jobs, Business News

We are witnessing the decline and fall of the investment-banking profession as we have known it for the past 40 years. The evidence is everywhere. ...

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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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Rebuilding Wall Street: The Yoga of Investment Banking

Monika Mitchell | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Investment Banking, Bank of America, India Institute of Technology, Monika Mitchell, Wall Street, Bhakti Yoga, Occupy Wall Street, Rasanath Das, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Conversations With Wall Street, Cornell University Business School, Business News

My dear friend Rasanath was revealed as a born-again banker in his new incarnation as Bhakti Yoga monk. RD left the gilded halls of investment banking two weeks before the fall of Lehman in September 2008 to take a vow of poverty and chastity in search of deeper truth.

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Goldman May Cut More Jobs Than Previously Indicated

Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Chief Financial Officer David Viniar, Video, Benefits, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Compensation, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, New York Stock Exchange, Investment Banking, Job Cut, Business News

Goldman Sachs Group Inc may cut $1.45 billion in expenses by year's end, $250 million more than it indicated in July, in a move that could lead to...

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BofA Cuts Investment Bankers In Industrials Group

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Investment Banks, Layoffs, Business News, Cost-Cutting, Brian Moynihan, Investment Banking, Video, Business News

Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) dismissed 13 investment bankers in its industrials group and may cut more, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing two ...

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The Strategy Of Rogue Traders

Jared Dillian | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Why Do Rogue Traders Happen, Rogue Trader, Kweku Adoboli, Rogue Trader Strategy, The Strategy of Rogue Traders, Martingale, Martingales, Why Rogue Trades Happen, Jerome Kerviel, Why Rogue Traders Do It, Investment Banking, Rogue Traders, Books News

I was an ETF trader at Lehman Brothers, so I had the same job as Kweku Adoboli, the UBS trader arrested recently for concealing $2 billion in losses. And I gotta tell you: it is hard to go rogue in the electronic age.

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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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The Bhagavad Gita And The Value Of Vulnerability

Ramnath Subramanian | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Yoga, Humility, Arjuna, Courage, Bhagavad Gita, Krishna, Vulnerability, Bhagavad Gita Vulnerability, Bhagavad Gita Humility, Hinduism, Investment Banking, Religion News

In this culture, I have grossly and subtly ingested the notion that I should not have any weakness -- so much so that when I came in touch with my natural human limitations, it was painfully embarrassing.

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The Time Not to Act

Mellody Hobson | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Investment Advice, Bad Investments, Investing Advice, Gold Investments, Investment Banking, Smart Investments, Investors, Debt Ceiling Economy, Debt Ceiling Markets, Market Low, Debt Ceiling, Debt Ceiling Jobs, BV Money, Black Voices News

The big umbrella statement, however, is that as scary as this period may seem, this is not the time to radically alter your own personal financial journey.

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Ex-Lehman Brothers Director Arrested, Charged With Drug Prescription Forgery

Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Bradley Jack, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Oxycontin, Economic Crisis, Business News, Financial Crisis, Drugs, Ritalin, Investment Banking, Business News

A former Lehman Brothers managing director has been arrested on charges of forging a prescription to buy drugs. Bradley Jack, formerly of the faile...

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Goldman Sachs Plans To Hire 1,000 In Singapore While Cutting U.S. Jobs

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Layoffs, Goldman Sachs, Economics News, Unemployment, Wall Street Layoffs, Wall Street, Singapore, Business News, Banking, Investment Banking, Business News

Goldman Sachs, the country's fifth-largest bank by assets, plans to hire 1,000 people in Singapore while laying off a significant number of workers at...

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Grumps, Dreamers, Bean Counters, Cool Cats and Shills: The Taxonomy of High Profile Economists

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Economists, Economy, Stephen Colbert, Investment Banks, Npr, The Colbert Report, Daily Show, Math, Hedge Funds, International Development, Colbert Report, Development, The Daily Show, Investment Banking, Business News

The dismal science has bred a fascinating collection of prominent species. While many economists toil away in obscurity, a small set of economists rise to fame, fortune or even both.

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Goldman Sachs' Profit Drops Nearly Three-Quarters From Last Year

Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Goldman First Quarter Profit, Housing Crisis Profit, Goldman Profit, Financial Crisis, Investment Bank Profit, Warren Buffett, Financial Regulation, Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs Profit, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profit, earning more money from bond trading than analysts ha...

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The Knotty Problem of Partial Regulation

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amar-Bhide, Main Street, Nyse, Wall Street, Investment Banking, The Deal, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Today there's sensitivity to the dangers of regulatory arbitrage when regulatory regimes widely vary either nationally or internationally -- although, so far, there are few answers to resolve this beyond gestures toward coordination.

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Suits: A Woman on Wall Street

Manisha Thakor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Security, Investing, Nina Godiwalla, Careers, Suits: A Woman on Wall Street, Financial Planning, Investment Banking, Financial Advice, Women in Business, Women Business, Business News

"I'd heard the banking experience would be 'challenging,' but I didn't expect it'd be so hard to break into a conversation of men in their late 40's sharing their rowing memories from their East Coast summer camps."

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Wall Street Has Become Socially Worthless

The New Yorker | John Cassidy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Small Business, Stocks, Capitalism, Recession, Unemployment, Subprime Mortgages, Bailout, Hedge Funds, Ipo, Banking, Banks, Stock Market, Socialism, Wall Street, Income Inequality, Investment Banking, Business News

A few months ago, I came across an announcement that Citigroup, the parent company of Citibank, was to be honored, along with its chief executive, Vik...

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Morgan Stanley Earnings Jump In 4Q

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Morgan Stanley Earnings, Banks, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley Earnings 4Q, Investment Banking, Business News

NEW YORK — Morgan Stanley's earnings rose 60 percent in the last three months of 2010 on strong investment banking results. The New York bank e...

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Investing Do's and Don'ts for 2011

Dan Solin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investments, Investing, Investing Advice, Investment Brokers, Investment Banking, Stockbrokers, Brokers, Investors, Business News

Don't rely on predictions by anyone about the direction of the markets or what to buy or sell in 2011. No one can predict random events. If your broker couldn't call the worst crash in 50 years, why do you believe his predictive skills have improved?

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Goldman Sachs Posts Strong Quarter, Despite Lower Trading

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earnings, Banks, Goldman Sachs, Trading Volume, Economic Forecasts, Revenue, Investment Banking, Business News

NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s earnings easily beat analysts' forecasts again, but the bank saw a big slowdown in trading, its most profi...

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