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Lazard Bonus
Might want to check out Lazard that posted a $140MM loss, because they paid a record comp ratio of 71% of their $1.6B revenue as comp figures. Last year their ratio was around 55-57%, meaning that if...
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Bank CEO Bonus figures
JPM: Jamie Dimon comes out on top with a $1MM salary and $17MM bonus (5 years restricted stock) GS: Lloyd Blankfein makes a $9MM bonus (restricted stock) MS: James Gorman makes a $9MM bonus and $800K...
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YTD 2010 League Tables
Global M&A Volume (in billions) for YTD Jan 29th 2008: $698.63 2009: $575.12 2010: $181.60 Global Ranking of M&A Advisors as of YTD Jan 29th in billions Format: (YTD 1/29/2009 first number,...
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Ken Lewis Home for Sale
BAML Ex-CEO Ken Lewis is selling his Charlotte Home for $4.5M. Take a look at how one of Wall Street's biggest players had lived: http://www.ccbhrealtors.com/search/PropertyDetails.aspx?MLSNumber=908329
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M&A in the Air
Some interesting M&A deals happening in the last week: 1) Walgreen decided to buy Duane Reade for $1.1B taking over the 257 NYC stores 2) Simon Property is offering $10B for General Growth which,...
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2010 YTD Announced Global M&A
Announced Global M&A by deal value in $bn as of 3/1/10 1) GS..............$142.8 2) CS................136.0 3) Citi...............103.0 4) JPM...............92.7 5) MS.................92.4 6)...
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Futures Trader turned Porn Star
Monica Mayhem, an Australian porn star, started out as a futures/forex trader. This reminds me of the GS intern turned stripper story, albeit that one turned up false. " I used to work in financial...
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Creative Exit Opportunities for a Banker
After finishing a two-year BB-IB stint, what are some of the more creative exit opportunities as opposed to the classical: B-school, HF/PE, Corp Dev. I was taking a look at some jobs at Google that...
View ArticleCornell AEM or Georgetown Econ for Wall Street jobs?
I was recently accepted into Cornell's undergraduate business school (AEM) and Georgetown (not the McDonough School of Business but the College). At G-Town I would major in economics. I was wondering...
View ArticleGoogle and Wall Street
My question is pretty simple Will a non programming (yet extremely competitive) internship at Google hurt my chances on wall street (provided Google dosen't follow up with a job offer after the...
View ArticleHP to acquire Palm
What do you all think about the deal ? Its already being referred to as 2010's third-largest U.S. tech acquisition. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870442350457521250340708793... Bank of...
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Is Ops Really Inferior to PWM? (Intern Level)
It seems that on these forums, operations are looked down upon as a career path with few exit opportunities, particularly if one wants to move on for a FO role. On the other hand, it seems that PWM is...
View ArticlePrivate Investment Banking
What exactly is private investment banking and what would an analyst there do?
View ArticleLloyd Blankfein Interview On BBG TV right now
Lloyd Blankfein interview with Charlie Rose on For the Record right now. hes doing a decent job, but it strikes me as pretty amazing that this dude is in charge. between the congressional hearings and...
View ArticleCornell ILR school
Fellow Monkeys, Have any of you heard of Cornell's ILR program? If so what is rep for it on the street? among consulting firms? Will I be at a disadvantage for recruiting for not being in AEM? Though I...
View ArticleHotel Buyouts
Hey guys, does anyone know of any famous Hotel buyouts that you could point me in the direction of? Very fascinated about this industry but the only one I know about is Blackstone's buyout of Hilton....
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Bumper sticker I saw today:
Bumper sticker I saw today on a flawless orange Lambroghini of all things: "I'll take my freedom, my guns, and my money, and you can keep your change." Had a good laugh at that one.
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