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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis shows the way the friendship between the two gifted young psychology professors Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky laid the foundations of what we now call behavioural economics. Their ideas are everywhere; it’s almost impossible to find a book in the “smart thinking” section Read More …
A successful trader approaches the markets as a serious business, with tools and attitude drawn from their live trading experience that give them confidence and help them handle trades, moving forward. In fact, there is nothing you can do to make sure you’ll succeed in every single trade: even with carefully prepared trading plans and strategies, Read More …
Your CV for finance jobs (or any other sector) has a tough job. It will probably be in the hands of the recruiter for a very small amount of time so every word counts. Your CV has to sell you, making you sound interesting, fit for the organisation and capable of making a difference. Let’s focus on Read More …
Last year, Citywire published the Alpha Female – a special report on how far women have got in fund management and how they are performing. The report shows that women are under-represented in asset management: women make up only one in ten of the individuals employed to look after investors’ money and just 7% of the funds sold to Read More …
People’s typical reactions when you speak about your career in Finance vary greatly depending on the area of finance you work in. Saying you work in almost any sub-section of finance gives a different impression: people would generally consider that: Traders love excitement; Investment Bankers are often master salesmen; High-frequency traders essentially applied mathematicians; Ops & Tech exactly like Read More …
Working until the late night is a common habit amongst (young, especially) investment bankers. In fact, when you work in a stressful environment, the fear of not finishing before the deadline, making a mistake in a deliverable, failing to meet expectations and to impress your senior banker(s) keep you moving along. The incentive to perform well far Read More …
Casino games are designed to have a negative expected return. If you play in a casino, over time you’re be expected to lose some money because the casino has set the odds so that you’ll lose more often than you will make it. Casinos actually exist because people are willing to pay money, by losing it, to Read More …
If you want to make yourself an idea of what an entry-level banker in a finance group does, try and imagine yourself in this imaginary typical day. 7 am Get up, take a shower, wear a suit, have your breakfast and get to work. 8 am Group meeting with interns, analysts and all the rest of Read More …
From Old Testament to Ancient Greeks and Romans, from Ebenezer Scrooge to Warren Buffet: why are practices of banking and investing often perceived as evil? Distrust of banking and finance is, unfortunately, as ancient as civilisation. The Old and New Testaments of the Bible both contain clear injunctions against charging interest on borrowed money. The Read More …
In addition to the published explanation in our F.A.Q.s of the required skills to be successful in the City, today we’d like to detail some of the related frequently asked questions about the necessary “hot skills” of the finance field at the moment. “What areas should a university student master to be successful in the future?” Mainly, Read More …