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The Private Equity Career Path: The Complete Guide

When thinking about the private equity career path, our favorite analogy still applies: a fraternity house. Yes, we previously compared the investment banking career path…

Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

We sometimes get questions about why we don’t offer an “equity research course.” People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different…

Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad… …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking, private equity, or…

Private Equity Value Creation: Equally Viable Alternative to PE Deal Teams?

Private equity value creation came on my radar a few years ago when I noticed something: Even though traditional PE deal roles were not doing…

Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms. Some argue that…

Fixed Income Research: The Overlooked Younger Brother of Equity Research?

While everyone seems to know about equity research and trading stocks, fixed income research gets far less attention. Partially, it’s an issue of accessibility: Everyone…

Wealth Management vs. Investment Banking: Career Deathmatch

If you want to read angry comments and long threads with plenty of insults, you can’t go wrong with the wealth management vs. investment banking…

Capital Markets vs. Investment Banking: Deals, Careers, Recruiting, Exits, and Offer Decisions

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A, ECM, DCM, and Leveraged Finance, we continue to get questions about…

How to Get into Commercial Real Estate: Side Doors, Front Doors, Steppingstones, and Career Paths

While people obsess over investment banking and private equity, other sectors within finance, such as commercial real estate (CRE), often go ignored. That’s a shame…

Private Equity Regulation: 2023 Changes and Impact on Finance Careers

Private equity was viewed as a “lightly regulated” industry for a long time. Only wealthy individuals and institutions could invest, so governments cared less about…

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