Career in INVESTMENT BANKING

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Welcome  In my Article regarding “investment banking careers”

Dear Members,

At This point of TIME Investment Banking Industry is on their BOOM, its a good opportunity  for us to increase our interest in the INDUSTRY.  

ABOUT INVESTMENT BANKING: What they Works ? & Role of IB ?

Investment Banks help companies and governments issue securities, help investors purchase securities, manage financial assets, trade securities and provide financial advice. The top investment banks including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are said to be in the bulge bracket.

Other investment banks are regionally oriented or situated in the middle market (e.g. Piper Jaffray). Others are small, specialized firms called boutiques which might be oriented toward an industry vertical, bond-trading, M&A advisory, technical analysis or program trading. Firms have lots of different areas and groups within them. In most firms, there is sales and trading which works with owners of securities, investment banking which works with issuers of securities (firms and governments) and capital markets which goes in between the other two.

 

Investment Banking:
Skill and Talent Requirements

Investment banks want employees with a combination of strong analytical and interpersonal skills. Some jobs lean more towards one skill set than another (e.g. brokers need to be mainly sales people). A typical job of an equities analyst requires both analytic and interpersonal skills. The skills involved include:

Key Skill Area

Requirement

People skills:

High

Sales skills:

Medium

Communication skills:

High

Analytical skills:

High

Ability to synthesize:

High

Creative ability:

High

Initiative:

Medium

Work hours:

50-120/wee

Investment Banking:
Job Options

By far the most common route into investment banking for someone just finishing an undergraduate degree is to be hired into a bank's analyst program (for more on life as an analyst, see here). MBAs are generally hired as associates. Analysts and associates work within specialized groups but they may not always have control over the group to which they get assigned (analysts especially). Some of the most common groups found within investment banks are described below, along with the work they do. If you're a new graduate interested in one of these areas specifically, learn as much as you can about the area that intrigues you so that you're best positioned to be assigned to that group, but understand that you'll most likely be looking for a job as an analyst or associate.

Industry Coverage

Corporate Finance

Capital Markets

Mergers and Acquisitions

Project Finance

Trading

Structured Finance

Derivatives

Advisory

Equity and Fixed Income Research

International Sales/Emerging Markets

Public Finance

Retail Brokerage / Private Client Coverage / Stockbroker

Institutional Sales

IT and Systems

Ratings Analyst

 

 

Investment Banking: Salaries

Starting salaries in investment banking positions with a bachelors degree after bonus (assistant or junior analyst position) range from $60,000 to $70,000. Starting salaries with an MBA degree range after bonus (associate position) range from $80,000 to $150,000. These salaries vary with firms and with the region of the country you are in. Bonuses typically would be 10-50% of salary to start and can move to one to three times salary later. Lately, salaries have increasingly included an equity component which may not be liquid for up to three years, although as an analyst you would typically be sheltered from this. This is good for the banks because it makes it much harder for people to move around.

As we write this in the Fall of 2009, banking salaries and bonuses are under attack due to the perception that high banker salaries may have worsened the financial crisis. Regardless, many investment banks will continue to pay good bonus compensation, that times will eventually improve and that many firms did not participate in the bailouts anyway.

Salaries in Investment Banking (with bonus)

Job Level

Salary Range

Typical All-in Comp

Prerequisite (degree/yrs experience)

$60K - 150K

$90K

Bachelor's

$120K - 300K

$150K

Bachelor's

$150K - 250K

$170K

MBA

$250 - 450K

$300K

MBA

Vice President

$350K - 1MM

$500K

3-6 years

Director / Principal

$400K - 1.5MM

$700K

5-10 years

Managing Director / Partner

$500K - 20MM

$800K

7-10 years

Department head

$800K - 70MM

$2MM

10+ years

 

 

Investment Banking:
Top Firms

S.No.

Name

1

2

3

4

UBS

5

6

7

 

 

With Regards,

ANKIT BANSAL

Replies (9)

Ankit,

          Is there some specialized bachelor's degree for this position.

          & how to apply ti these I.B Firms.

I am a CA Fresher having cleared all three levels in first attempt. I am interested in IB Job Profile. How can I apply to any of the firms that are listed. What are the chances of getting in?
 

Hi Yash,

Clearing CA will very much improve your chances of getting in to Investment Banking but you cannot actually work on decision making roles or running any of the business units mentioned above. IB needs very strong relative experience. CA does'nt completely cover the IB financial products. Having knowledge of Derivatives, equities, commodities, SEBI rules etc are different but the actual work of handling the products and managing the product specialists like brokers, Traders, Product distributors, Investors, Clients etc definitely needs exprience. The Job of being a intermediary and creating investments ( Issuing of securities / Raising funds ) for clients and sourcing of Investors ( Consumers of products) with brokers, traders etc is huge task and will need top level of networking and communications. Moreover Industrial knowledge of different fields like manufacturing, IT/ Banking/ Economy are thouroughly required. All the analyst and associate positions are no actual Investment Banking works and are just supporting work.  No use in doing that. I would suggest you to currently join as a senior equity analyst - specialist position pertaining to certain sectors like telecom, Banking, Infrastructure, IT etc in a Indian Fund house company. ( strictly it should be only an Indian company like Mutual Funds, Venture capital, Private equity, Portfolio Management services (PMS) etc).  No outsourcing work, even if they offer position of Asst mamager/Manager. Build good amount of experience and do CFA (US) along with it or prepare for CAT/ GMAT and do a MBA from reputed B-school only after 3-4 or may be 5 years of experience. Remember all the MBA's from reputed Bshools who are offered very good package in IB had "previous years" of experience in IB or Funds management. No one will give IB actual role to fresher as it involves very high responsible job both Financially and legally. It's hard to say that fresh CA's will not be entertained to real IB jobs but to a supportive respectable job. No second opinion on the fact that IB is fast growing Industry in India and will be for many decades to come as India is a growing economy but do understand that the real IB job needs experience along with Knowledge. Time being you can also consider PG Diploma in Investment Banking from ICFAI. It has very Knowledgeable contents in the curriculam and you can build up your knowledge to good extent with it but nothing comes close to what I had mentioned earlier. Kindly give more importance and respect to experience for this field because it is a very high pressue job and your activities will always be in the news circle quite frequently.

Hello Mr. Naresh,

 

It is a very crisp and more-than-possibly clear explaination of how CAs should approach the career in IB. This thread had been dead for quite long, and now you have come in as a savior. There is not much info available regarding this elsewhere, unless you know a person who has been in the field himself.

Hats off for the effort and insight. !

I have a few questions regarding the subject..

1. When we are talking about Indian PE/VC/HF/MF/PMS, etc. which are the companies i should be targeting? 

2. The Big4 offer financial advisory/M&A services too right? Is it a good option to join them? How far will that help in an enhancement of experience pertaining to IB?

3. Even if we overlook the fact about CAs not having enough experience, is it advisable to join initially as analyst/associate? (and carry on with the finance courses simultaneously and also do the MBA aftr 3-4 yrs) so that you can move up gradually?

Sorry for too many questions. 

But your advice would be very valuable . :-) 

Thanks in advance!

awesome naresh.... :)

 

I am a B.tech(IT) Fresher  . I am interested in IB Job Profile. How can I apply to any of the firms that are listed. What are the chances of getting in?

 

Thanks that's good to know about the salaires, here is some more into on what is investment banking https://www.corporatefinanceinstitute.com/what-is-investment-banking

 

Hi... It is good career in investment banking. If you know more about Investment banking firms, here visit on - JM Finance services. Hope it helpful.....

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