The Vault.Com Career Guide to Investment Banking
by Lott, Tom; Vault ReportsEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Vault Reports Inc
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Summary
Are you interested in a position in investment banking? Then this book is your entree into the fast-paced and lucrative investment banking industry. The guide includes a detailed look at the roles and lifestyles of investment banking professionals, from the all-nighters of the financial-model building corporate finance analyst to the pressure-packed position as an influential stock research analyst, to the schmoozing of the private client sales associate.
Table of Contents
| Overview of Investment Banking | p. 1 |
| The Industry | p. 3 |
| What is an Investment Bank? | p. 5 |
| Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, and Asset Management | p. 17 |
| Commercial Banking vs. Investment Banking | p. 17 |
| The Buy-Side vs. the Sell-Side | p. 20 |
| The Equity Markets | p. 23 |
| The Fixed Income Markets | p. 31 |
| Trends in the Investment Banking Industry | p. 41 |
| Stock and Bond Offerings | p. 45 |
| Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Placements and Reorganizations | p. 49 |
| The Jobs | p. 53 |
| Corporate Finance | p. 55 |
| The Players | p. 56 |
| The role of the players | p. 59 |
| The Typical Week in Corporate Finance | p. 68 |
| Institutional Sales and Trading (SandT) | p. 77 |
| T rading -- The Basics | p. 79 |
| Executing a Trade | p. 84 |
| Trading -- The Players | p. 89 |
| Trading -- The Routine | p. 92 |
| Sales -- The Basics | p. 96 |
| The Institutional Sales -- The Players | p. 98 |
| Private Client Services (PCS) | p. 103 |
| Research | p. 107 |
| The Players and the Product | p. 108 |
| Three Months in Research | p. 116 |
| Research -- The Ties that Bind | p. 121 |
| Syndicate: The Go-betweens | p. 125 |
| Leading Employers | p. 131 |
| A.G. Edwards | p. 132 |
| Allen and Co. | p. 138 |
| Banc of America Securities | p. 144 |
| BancRobertson Stephens | p. 150 |
| Bear Stearns | p. 156 |
| Bowles Hollowell Conner | p. 164 |
| Broadview International | p. 170 |
| Brown Brothers Harriman and Co. | p. 176 |
| CIBC World Markets | p. 182 |
| Credit Suisse First Boston | p. 190 |
| D.E. Shaw and Co. | p. 198 |
| Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown | p. 204 |
| Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette | p. 210 |
| Goldman Sachs and Co. | p. 218 |
| Hambrecht and Quist | p. 226 |
| Jefferies and Co. | p. 232 |
| J.P. Morgan | p. 238 |
| Lazard Freres and Co. | p. 246 |
| Legg Mason | p. 252 |
| Lehman Brothers | p. 256 |
| Merrill Lynch | p. 262 |
| Morgan Keegan | p. 268 |
| Morgan Stanley Dean Witter | p. 272 |
| PaineWebber | p. 278 |
| Peter J. Solomon Company | p. 284 |
| Prudential Securities | p. 290 |
| Raymond James Financial | p. 296 |
| Salomon Smith Barney | p. 302 |
| SG Cowen | p. 308 |
| TD Securities | p. 314 |
| U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray | p. 320 |
| Warburg Dillon Read | p. 326 |
| Wasserstein Perella | p. 332 |
| Appendix | p. 339 |
| Basic Accounting Concepts | p. 341 |
| Glossary | p. 347 |
| Recommended Reading | p. 355 |
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