GoodBye Mr President or Successful Banker Begins New Journey
Success in the financial world is all about evolution. Only those able to change with the natural rhythms of the free market economy survive over the long term. Knowing when the time to move on has...
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Former hedge fund trader Sam Polk recently wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times in which he provided an insider explanation of greed among Wall Streeters. Polk´s term for greed among...
View ArticleLooking for a bigger Bonus? Quit Finance and Join a Tech Start-Up
The internet brought about many changes when it was introduced in 1990. Near the end of the decade, the NASDAQ was trending a steadily upward as a result of the technological influence on existing...
View ArticleThe Sheriff Who Took on BlackRock and JP Morgan
Eric Schneiderman, the 65th attorney general of the state of New York, has established that there are not many arenas and industries that he is not willing and competent enough to engage. He has...
View ArticleTop 10 Olympic Skiers Working in Finance
When you compare the competitive nature of the finance world and top-level sport, it is not hard to imagine why some of the best skiers in the world are currently working on Wall Street or The City. It...
View ArticleWhy Bond Trader choose Social Investment over the Market?
Ben Rick was an investment banker for almost two decades. He landed at Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European prop trading division. Unfortunately 2010’s Volcker rule, preventing banks from...
View ArticleGoldman Helping Poor Female Entrepreneur: Altruistic or Marketing?
Global investment bank Goldman Sachs proudly announced hitting a milestone. Six years ago, the bank created a philanthropic foundation for poverty stricken women around the world. The foundation...
View ArticleThe Royal Family of Finance: Bush
From War to Wall Street: A Brief Primer on the Bush Family Fortune By design, America has no kings and no queens. One Revolutionary War later, there is no royal family, there are no decrees, and there...
View ArticleWarren Buffet Successor Revealed
Legendary Investor Warren Buffett has no Disciple. The “Oracle of Omaha,” Warren Buffett, gave some very simple advice to those who received his 49th Annual Report from Berkshire Hathaway, and it...
View ArticleGet Your hedge, Predict the market: “Happy” Data Mining
Fund managers are finely attuned to monitoring all aspects of the economy, and this includes consumer sentiment. Because consumer sentiment has been relatively low for many years, fund managers could...
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