CFA EXAM HORROR STORY: A guy dropped his calculator into the urinal and you...
A huge moment in the lives of many young Wall Streeters is coming up Saturday.That's when all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam will be administered.Many, many young...
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It looks as if we now know what the smaller of Bill Ackman's two new investments is.Forbes reports that Pershing Square Capital, Ackman's $20 billion hedge fund, disclosed a stake in Nomad Holdings, a...
View ArticleA Wall Street billionaire just gave Harvard the biggest gift in its history
Another Wall Street billionaire has made a massive donation to an Ivy League school.Hedge fund manager John Paulson donated $400 million to endow Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,...
View ArticleCFA EXAM NIGHTMARE: One of the big test-taking sites was located across the...
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam will be administered worldwide on Saturday. Many young Wall Streeters have spent months cramming for the famously difficult test. To put the exam's difficulty...
View ArticleThere's only one thing Wall Street hates about Hillary Clinton, and it has...
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is already scandal-ridden.There's the separate State Department e-mail server, the sky high speaking fees, and money that seems to flow through a bunch of odd...
View ArticleHere's the only book Wall Street interns need to read this summer
"Against the Gods"Bloomberg's Tom Keene, the host of Bloomberg Surveillance and an industry legend, is out with a post on Wednesday recommending that all Wall Street interns read Peter Bernstein's...
View ArticleSome banker just declared these the 10 commandments for Wall Street interns...
This might not have been the best idea. According to The Wall Street Journals' Daniel Huang, Justin Kwan, a second-year analyst in Barclays' global power & utilities group, sent an email to the...
View ArticleThese 2 charts show that the US market could be heading for a big correction
Stock markets around the world have been on an extended bull run for a long time now, but economists are getting increasingly worried that at least in the US it could soon be coming to an end — and...
View ArticleActual Wall Street interns think the '10 Commandments' everyone's talking...
Wall Street's incoming class of interns are convening in New York this week for training before their stints at the banks get underway.In light of that, a Barclays analyst sent around an email to...
View ArticleForget Hillary and Jeb, here's who Wall Street really wants to run for president
Wall Street wants Michael Bloomberg to run for president, but the billionaire isn't budging.At the Yale CEO Summit this week, the talk was of "drafting Bloomberg" however possible.The former New York...
View Article159,889 Wall Streeters are crowding auditoriums and classrooms to take a...
Thousands of Wall Streeters will crowd gymnasiums and auditoriums around the world to write a grueling 6-hour exam on Saturday. Their odds of passing are less than 50%.The three levels of the Chartered...
View Article20 horror stories about the brutal exam Wall Streeters have been cramming for...
This has been a brutal week for those Wall Streeters who are studying for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).On Saturday, all three levels of the CFA will be administered worldwide. The CFA...
View ArticleThese are books Wall Street's smartest people think you should read this summer
Summer is the season of interns and young financiers bustling through an industry several times their age. So Business Insider reached out to veterans and asked, what are you reading?We've compiled...
View ArticleThe 3 grueling exams are just the first step to becoming a CFA charterholder
On Saturday, some 160,000 students will gather to write Levels I, II, and III of the Chartered Financial Analyst exam.The 6-hour exams are notoriously tough, and writing them, in the words of Kurt...
View ArticleIt's clear that Wall Street is worried about labor organizing
Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner at SkyBridge Capital, is blogging about why unions aren't the answer. The post is in response to this week's Business Insider argument about why it's...
View ArticleHow a 19-year-old hustled his way to an internship at Goldman, then turned it...
Landing a summer internship at any Wall Street firm is tough.But Business Insider recently spoke with a summer intern who had to work extra hard to get his first finance gig — and not for any of the...
View ArticleBanning Uber in the Hamptons is a big fat safety hazard
Taxi-hailing app Uber has been banned in "The Hamptons" by East Hampton's Supervisor. The ban is in effect from East Hampton to Montauk.The ban is effective immediately.So is my outrage.Let me take you...
View ArticleThe big market correction everyone's worrying about could be around the corner
Stock markets around the world have been on an extended bull run for a long time now, but economists are getting increasingly worried that it could soon be coming to an end.Two new charts, from...
View ArticleAmerica may not understand the Clintons — but Wall Street does
Here are some things the Clintons do that most of America doesn't understand: Using a separate email server at the State Department.Borrowing your friend's private plane.Owning shell...
View ArticleForget Hillary and Jeb, here's who Wall Street really wants to run for...
Wall Street wants Michael Bloomberg to run for president, but the billionaire isn't budging.At the Yale CEO Summit this week, the talk was of "drafting Bloomberg" however possible.The former New York...
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