ANZ National is New Zealand’s largest and most diverse financial services group. Our goal is to be the financial strength behind New Zealand and New Zealanders. Through some of New Zealand... more>> PERMANENT - London - City - per annum
Top Tier Global investment bank looking for a candidate with extensive experience selling interest rate derivatives to Swedish or Norwegian corporates in order to further... more >>
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A successful financial institution are looking to add an experienced Macro Economist to their research team. The focus of the research will be the Eurozone... more >>
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A Research Analyst is required by a European Central Bank to focus on the assessment of risks to the relevant financial system arising from payment systems and market infrastructures.
The main more >>
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A very successful Investment bank are looking to add to their research desk, in London. The successful candidate will focus their research primarily on the... more >>
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Our client a European Bank are looking to hire a Credit salesperson covering Institutional Clients in the Benelux area. You will have experience selling cash credit products including ABS, high yield bonds, EM's. more >>
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Top Tier Global investment bank looking for a candidate with an established network of hedge fund or money manager clients to help further expand its... more >>
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Our client is a boutique Investment house who is looking to make a mid-level hire for a flow & structured products sales person to cover... more >>
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An leading fund manager based in London are currently looking to add an FX analyst/strategist to their team with the primary responsibility of building a... more >>
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Highly regarded commodity structuring desk in the US, known for its innovation and excellence in the institutional solutions arena, is actively sourcing a VP-Director level... more >>
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One of the top 3 structuring desks in the USA is actively looking for strong Analyst -level commodity structurers to join its team in New... more >>
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With the new LME contracts coming on to the LME in February, the demand for minor metal traders is at an all time high. We... more >>
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Bloomberg is looking for an entrepreneurial sales person to join the Bloomberg Valuation Content Acquisition team in London. The Content Acquisition group is responsible for all OTC pricing content f more >>
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My client is a leading firm, who is looking to add to their research desk based here in London. The organisation is looking to... more >>
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A commodity focused hedge-fund is seeking a senior soft commodity prop trader to join their operation in London. The fund operates globally and is looking... more >>
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We are a global Investment Bank and are currently looking for a German speaking, Senior Distressed Debt/ Leveraged Finance sales person/ relationship manager to join our london office.
The ideal candidate will have 5 plus years experience working for a top tier house in syndications and have in depth relationships and clients which can be transferred across.
If you feel you can adhere to the above please send us your details stating your current remuneration, notice period and expectations more >>
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It is now almost received wisdom that there is a bubble in commodity markets. The evidence from institutional investor behaviour is mixed. They have begun to sell the Materials sector and flows into commodity producing countries have not risen as fast as those into developed markets in the last month. This spells uncertainty and trepidation rather than a conviction that commodities are destined for a nasty correction. However, the stronger dollar may put commodity prices under pressure and that could yet spell bad news for broader markets.
FCA Recruitment was established as a specialist financial recruitment consultancy. Since inception our company has expanded its focus and today has access to over 20 years of experience in various fields of expertise. As a result, this enables us to boast an expansive database of both local and internationally based highly skilled professionals, available for permanent and contract employment.
The creation of NJF BlackSheep enables the extension of the NJF service portfolio, including: equity research, corporate finance and specialist sales areas of boutique/medium sized natural resources focused banks and brokers.
NJF Search International is a niche search firm that specialises in the recruitment of Front Office Quants, Traders and Technologists within the Investment Industry. Our core business is identifying and assessing outstanding Front Office Executives and recruiting them into often complicated and specialised roles in some of the highest profile and most profitable Hedge Funds and Investment Banks in the world.
Selby Jennings recruits throughout Europe, the US and Asia for Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Fund Management, Brokerages, Corporate Finance Boutiques, Energy Trading Houses and Financial Consultancies into the following areas across all asset classes: Analysis, Development, Marketing, Origination, Quant Analysis, Quant Development, Research Analysis, Risk Analysis, Risk Control, Risk Management, Sales, Structuring, Trading.
ANZ National is New Zealand’s largest and most diverse financial services group. Our goal is to be the financial strength behind New Zealand and New Zealanders. Through some of New Zealand’s best known and most respected brands, we help one in every two New Zealanders achieve their financial goals. We employ around 10,000 people throughout New Zealand. They are all resourced and ready to help New Zealand’s people, businesses and communities succeed.
Bank of America is at the forefront of many of the industry's largest and complex deals, and we have more clients than any other financial services company in the world.
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. Sometimes known as the 'Old Lady' of Threadneedle Street, the Bank was founded in 1694, nationalised on 1 March 1946, and gained independence in 1997. Standing at the centre of the UK's financial system, the Bank is committed to promoting and maintaining monetary and financial stability as its contribution to a healthy economy.
Citi, the leading global financial services company, does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services. With a presence in many countries dating back more than 100 years, Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.
Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in all aspects of finance, around the world, around the clock.
Dresdner Kleinwort operates an integrated business model, the elements of which are; leading capital markets expertise, an international cross-border advisory platform, innovative risk management solutions across all asset classes, strength in the home markets of Germany and the UK, with an international presence and capability in key product areas to support a global client base.
At Fitch Ratings we rely on the diverse skills and backgrounds of our staff to deliver solid credit opinions. Through Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, we provide worldleading products and services to offer market participants greater insight into the growing complexity of the credit markets to enable them to make more timely and informed business decisions.
Fortis is an international provider of banking and insurance services to personal, business and institutional customers. We deliver a total package of financial products and services through our own high-performance channels and via intermediaries and other partners. Fortis ranks among Europe’s top 20 financial institutions, with a market capitalisation of EUR 23.9 billion (30/06/2008).
Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for over 40 years. Headquartered in New York with more than 20 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management.
JPMorgan is a leading financial services firm with one of the largest client franchises in the world. We partner with our clients to offer the most complete and innovative solutions in the industry to help them achieve their goals. For more than 200 years, we have taken a long-term approach to our clients and to the way we conduct business.
Landsbanki Islands hf ("Landsbanki") is a European Corporate and Investment bank. The Bank focuses on serving mid-cap companies in Europe through the provision of dedicated debt finance, asset-based lending, trade finance, leverage finance and mezzanine finance.
Merrill Lynch is a leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory company, with offices on six continents. The company is a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.
Nomura leads the Japanese securities market and we have established ourselves as a truly international global finance house. In a series of 'firsts' this has been a characteristic of our business since it was founded in 1925. Nomura was the first Japanese securities company to establish an overseas office in 1927. We created the first investment trust and were one of the first two foreign-owned members of the London Stock Exchange. Our services are structured to meet the needs of our clients. Orchestrated from four main centres of the world: Japan, Hong Kong, London and New York, with a web of offices in 30 countries, clients can count on a seamless service from Nomura.
Pershing Limited provides broker-dealers, asset managers, intermediary firms, and financial institutions across Europe with a comprehensive range of products, services, and solutions including retail clearing, fully disclosed institutional global clearing, broker services, and execution services. Established in London in 1987, Pershing Limited and its subsidiary, Pershing Securities Limited, are members of the London Stock Exchange and Euroclear UK & Ireland.
RBC is the 5th largest financial institution in North America and ranks among the top 25 banks in the world. With over 70,000 employees globally, the firm serves more than 15 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in 41 countries. RBC maintains one of the highest credit ratings of any financial institution – Moody’s Aaa, Standard & Poor’s AA-.
Santander is one of the largest banks in the world. Santander has more than 150 years experience in banking, and more branches worldwide than any other international bank. Headquartered in Spain, Santander has more than 66 million customers, just over 130,000 employees and has an international presence in over 40 countries.
State Street is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $14.045 trillion in assets under custody and $1.686 trillion in assets under management at September 2008, State Street operates in 26 countries and more than 100 geographic markets worldwide.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) was established in 2001 through the merger of Sakura and Sumitomo Banks. SMBC boasts a number of competitive advantages, including a strong customer base, the quick implementation of strategies and an extensive lineup of financial products benefitting from the expertise of specialist Group companies. SMBC has over 16,500 employees in 427 branches throughout the world.
Sunrise Brokers, founded in 1991, was the first London-based broker to focus on over the counter derivatives products. It has been established since then as a leader of most equity derivative listed and OTC products.
Category: Stockmarkets
This authoritative and accessible investment classic promises rare insight into what it really takes to run money in a top-performing investment fund. Anthony Bolton, the UK's most successful stock market investor, tells the story of his contrarian approach to managing money. He provides invaluable lessons on the factors that really matter in picking a stock: the need to identify good managers, how to run a portfolio, the importance of value investing, reading charts and how to trade successfully. It's not easy to continually buy low and sell high. This book gives clear directions for doing we.....
Category: Trading
'The catastrophic events of 2008 prove that the financial world has not learnt the lessons of my own tragic tale. But anyone who thinks that the world of derivatives is just about greedy bankers who put our pensions and savings at risk is wrong. "Day One Trader" is the gripping chronicle ofthe unknown working class heroes of the Liffe floor who shattered a glass ceiling of elitism in the City of London and helped build one of the few financial institutions that we can be proud of' - Nick Leeson. 'As I walked into the members entrance of the exchange for the first time on September 30 1982 I fe.....
Category: Bonds/Fixed Income
This new book by the authors of 'Wake Up' shows how anyone and everyone, with sufficient research and discipline, can rectify their financial position. Using a step-by-step programme, readers can take control of their financial destiny before it's too late. After all, who wouldn't want a financially secure retirement? The book is designed to have a wide appeal: it suits almost anyone who has investments or is concerned about how he/she will finance his/her retirement. It covers all key investment classes, including stocks, funds, bonds, cash, property, commodities and collectables. It also .....
Category: Stockmarkets
Richard Farleigh reveals the 100 secret strategies that he developed to enable him to succeed in the markets. During his time running a trading desk, Farleigh set out to develop a repeatable methodology based on observation and reasoning, not just on one-off flukes and luck, to enable him to outperform the market on a regular basis. The (potentially controversial) beliefs that he incorporates into his strategies include: - Markets tend to under-react, not overreact. - Big, obvious ideas offer great opportunities. - It is safe to invest with a consensus view. - Contrarian trading is.....
Category: Futures
Once you read Trading Day by Day you will never look at trading in the same way again. Truly unique, this book has everything you will ever need to be a competitive trader in any market, at any time: a perfect synthesis of approach and method, philosophy and practicality, theory and reality. Discover for yourself: - The three natural laws of trading - The right approach and method - A sound mathematical system - The "spike" rule - The "mistake" rule - Divergences - Relative strength - The truth about options - Detailed money management rules - Over a hundred "real-time", day-by-.....
Category: Trading
It's back - and this time it's even more revealing. In this completely updated and expanded edition, top trader Robbie Burns gives you the lowdown on the strategies you need to make money from the stock market without having to sit at a screen all day. Robbie quit the rat race in 2001, and believes you can do it too. The original Naked Trader flew off the shelves as the glowing reviews from readers mounted up. This new edition contains loads of new stuff: more essential tips, more key facts, more ideas, more insights, more real-life tales and an awful lot more toast. Robbie, aka the Nake.....
Category: Bonds/Fixed Income
For students enrolled in Fixed Income Securities Courses or Bond Markets Courses Learn how to assess and invest in bonds with this best-selling text. Fabozzi's Bond Markets is the most applied book on the market. It prepares students to analyze the bond market and manage bond portfolios without getting bogged down in the theory. The new edition has been updated substantially, primarily for the latest developments in structured products (mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and collateralized debt obligations) and credit derivatives......
Category: Options
Options Trading for Directionless Markets provides an in-depth exploration of the most effective ways in which to trade within a market where the market is neither trending up or down, and gives traders practical advice on trading profitably. Options trading is becoming an increasingly popular investment tool, fuelled by an electronic marketplace, greater transparency, stock exchanges introducing their own options and increased globalization. A directionless market - one where the market is not trending up or down - is the most common, but also the most difficult to trade. Based on the auth.....
Category: Stockmarkets
This updated paperback edition of "Inside the House of Money" lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse at how today's highest paid money managers approach their craft. Now with new commentary, author, Steve Drobny takes you even further into the hedge fund industry. He demystifies how these star traders make billions for their well-heeled investors, revealing their theories, strategies and approaches to markets. Whereas some still maintain that rationality permeates financial markets, Drobny captures a different dimension, showing how the unquantifiab.....
Category: Futures
This book is a simple, practical guide to how you can use some of the newer investment products like spread betting, binary betting, contracts for difference, covered warrants and exchange-traded funds, as well as older ones like futures and options, to help your investing. In different ways, each of these products allows you either to: - boost the returns you get in exchange for taking on greater risk; - hedge your bets in exchange for slightly lower returns; - use much less capital to achieve the same market exposure; or - move money into and out of a range of markets and s.....
Category: Trading
In Trading in the Zone, Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistently profitable trades and helps traders overcome the deep-rooted mental habits that cost money. Douglas takes on the myths of the market and exposes them, one by one, teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be guided by and be comfortable with the 'uncertainty principle' that governs all stock speculation. Trading in the Zone introduces a whole new mental dimension to getting an edge on the market. Use it to leverage the power of the 'zone' for unpre.....
Category: Bonds/Fixed Income
The "Bond and Money Markets" is an invaluable reference to all aspects of fixed income markets and instruments. It is highly regarded as an introduction and an advanced text for professionals and graduate students. It features comprehensive coverage of: Government and Corporate bonds, Eurobonds, callable bonds, convertibles; asset-backed bonds including mortgages and CDOs; derivative instruments including futures, swaps, options, structured products; interest-rate risk, duration analysis, convexity, and the convexity bias; the money markets, repo markets, basis trading, and asset/liability man.....
Category: Options
Binary options are the latest products to hit financial markets. From 5 minute FTSE100 bets offered by online bookmakers, longer duration FTSE100 bets traded on online betting exchanges plus binary bets offered by spreadbetting companies, all are offering the same instrument as the CBOT's binary option on the Fed Funds rate. Hitherto, the largest single marketplace for binary options has been Lloyd's of London where they are known as insurance contracts, while the sports enthusiast is unwittingly buying a binary option every time he takes a price from a sportsbook or bookmaker on this horse or.....
Category: Stockmarkets
From the author of the best seller 'The Financial Spread Betting Handbook' comes a book about constructing winning spread betting strategies. Seven strategies are presented covering all types of market; up, down and sideways. Key ingredients for each strategy include overall market direction, entry and exit techniques and bet size determination. The strategies are used on a wide range of instruments including stocks, commodities and currencies, and trade duration tends to be in weeks. Examples of each strategy are fully illustrated with charts and commentary - there are over 150 charts i.....
Category: Futures
Short term interest rate futures (STIR futures) are one of the largest financial markets in the world. The two main contracts, the Eurodollar and Euribor regularly trade in excess of one trillion dollars and euros of US and European interest rates each day. STIR futures are also unique because their structure encourages spread and strategy trading, offering a risk reward profile incomparable to other financial markets. STIR futures are traded on a completely electronic market place that provides a level playing field, meaning that the individual can compete on exactly the same terms as banks .....
Category: Bonds/Fixed Income
This book provides a comprehensive resource on all the main aspects of valuing and hedging interest rate products. A series of introductory chapters reviews the theoretical background, pointing out the problems in using na?ve valuation and implementation techniques. There follows a full analysis of interest rate models including major categories, such as affine, HJM and market models, and in addition, lesser well known types that include Consol, random field and jump-augmented models. Implementation methods are discussed in depth including the latest developments in the use of finite differenc.....
Category: Options
Lawrence G. McMillan, a recognized expert on options, builds from a solid foundation in the basic properties and advantages of options, listed and non-equity, to detail scores of proven techniques and tactics for a wide array of market scenarios. Now newly revised, updated and expanded, the best-selling guide that has sold over 100,000 copies, gives serious investors hundreds of market-tested strategies to maximize the earnings potential of their portfolio while reducing downside risk - regardless of how the market is performing. Reflecting today's market realities and the new innovative op.....
Category: Stockmarkets
Reach the heights of spread betting success! Financial spread betting is growing in popularity. But who wins and who loses at this game? What do the winners do that differs from the losers? That is what this book is about. Malcolm Pryor uses the model of climbing a mountain to explain a disciplined, winning approach to spread betting. First a base camp must be established: which includes getting set up with the right corporate data, charting and accounts software, deciding what to bet on and what your time frame should be, learning the nuances of operating an account, controlling risk, a.....