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'Culture Hasn't Changed' And A Few More Things I Learned In A Year And A Half...
Why would you want to become an investment banker? A few years ago, you didn’t necessarily need a qualitative reason. The money was enough. Now, as salaries have downshifted from tremendous to very...
View ArticleAn Angel Investor On Two Key Differences Between Male And Female Entrepreneurs
Joanne Wilson is an angel investor, and her investment thesis is simple — she invests in people and real businesses, not ideas.Within that, though, there's a wide range of possibilities. She addressed...
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20 Of Wall Street's Hottest Power Couples
In honor of Valentine's Day, we've decided to feature some of the hottest power couples on Wall Street. The range here is wide. We have fund managers who date well-known actresses. We have bankers who...
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GOLDMAN SACHS, BANK BAILOUTS, NO EXPERIENCE: Why These Stigmas Won't Stop...
Neel Kashkari, who oversaw the government's bank bailout in 2008, spoke to us about running for governor of California. Kashkari is running as a Republican and his platform is focusing on just two key...
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This Wall Street Wealth Manager Has Been On Some Of Your Favorite TV Shows
You may have seen Mark Axelowitz—a managing director at UBS Private Wealth Management—on television before. We don't mean on CNBC or Bloomberg TV either, even though he's appeared on both financial...
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How To Stop Wall Street From Eroding Your Retirement Savings
Humans are horrible at understanding compound interest, and it's making our golden years much less so.Think about your 401(k). The first thing you probably look at when you pick your funds is their...
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A Banker Jumped To His Death From The Top Of JP Morgan Headquarters In Hong Kong
A man jumped off of JP Morgan's Hong Kong headquarters to his death, according to George Chen of the South China Morning Post.JP Morgan has confirmed that the man who jumped was a 33 year-old employee...
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How A Reporter Got Busted Crashing A Super-Secretive Wall Street Fraternity...
In January 2012, then-Dealbook reporter Kevin Roose rented an ill-fitting tuxedo and crashed the secretive black-tie induction ceremony for exclusive Wall Street fraternity Kappa Beta Phi.Kappa Beta...
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Here's What You Learn If You Follow Eight Young Bankers Around For Two Years
Think of it like 'Real World, Wall Street': One journalist followed around eight young strangers in their first years of banking. Then the journalist, New York Magazine's Kevin Roose, put it all...
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What To Do When You Interview At An Investment Bank And Don't Hear Back
“It was great meeting you – we’ll get back to you in a few days!”The VP shakes your hand, and you turn around and leave the room.You walk out of the interview on top of the world.After studying...
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Goldman Sachs Takes One Of Its Interview Questions From An 18th Century...
Nassim Taleb called it a "black swan." Donald Rumsfeld went with "unknown unknown."But in Wall Street parlance, the likelihood of a low-probability, highly-catastrophic event is known as "tail...
View ArticleSports Illustrated Swimsuit Models Have Taken Over The New York Stock...
Trading has been halted on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange... just kidding! But really, Sports Illustrated swimsuit models are down there right now, so we can imagine it's pretty easy to get...
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Banker Arrested For Allegedly Hitting A Guy With A Beer Bottle In An NYC...
Banker Julia Kadioglu was arrested last month for allegedly hitting a guy on the head with a beer bottle in an NYC night club, the New York Post reports citing unnamed police sources.According to the...
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What It's Like To Earn $10M On Wall Street And Blow It All On Cocaine,...
I moved to New York in 1994, aged 24, looking for a job in PR or journalism. It wasn’t working and I was getting very frustrated, so my mum suggested I call my uncle, who knew all about finance. I had...
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The 18 Best Ski Racers On Wall Street
In the spirit of the Winter Olympics, we've decided to track down some of the top ski racers who are now working on Wall Street. We've found folks who competed in the Olympics and others who were World...
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Why Young Bankers Are So Miserable
Over a few beers after work one spring evening, two junior Goldman Sachs employees started contemplating the best ways to kill themselves.“If the goal is, like, how do I inflict maximum psychological...
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FORMER GOLDMAN BANKER: 'The Wolf Of Wall Street' Is Total Crap
I have been harsh in the past about some things William D. Cohan has written about Wall Street, specifically in this review of his book about Goldman Sachs, and this view on Fabulous Fab’s criminal...
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The Bankers That Worked On The Facebook-WhatsApp Deal Could Make More Than...
The two investment banks that worked on the $19 billion Facebook acquisition of popular messenger app WhatsApp could make more than $80 million in advisory fees, according to preliminary...
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The Most Famous Technical Analyst On Wall Street Has Left Oppenheimer
Carter Worth, the Chief Technical Analyst at Oppenheimer has left the firm for Sterne Agee.This is big in the world of technical analysts. Worth is known for having predicted the 2007 market top to the...
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The Official Goldman Sachs Elevator Review Of 'Young Money,' A New Book On...
When I heard about Kevin Roose's new book, "Young Money," of course I wanted to read it — after all, "Liar’s Poker" lit the fuse on my own Wall Street aspirations.Although I do not know Kevin...
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