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Finance Professionals City is one of the top recruiters in the London finance markets, voted by candidates and clients as Best Contingency Recruiter 2007, awarded by Here Is The City. Establ... more>> Jobs
Prime Brokerage Associate
PERMANENT - London - Dependant on experience
An excellent opportunity has arisen for Prime Brokerage Associate, working for a very well known investment bank. As a Prime Brokerage Associate your responsibilities will include, Margining many of the major Hedge Funds and handling a variety of strategies covering the full range of Equities, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, Commodity, OTC and Listed Derivatives products.Ensuring all positions and valuations are accurate, that correct requirements are being charged in accordance more >>
Private Banking Support - Fluent Spanish & Portuguese
PERMANENT - London - City - £23000.00 to £30000.00 - bonus excellent benefits
- Use your language skills, working for a well-reputed private bank.
- Excellent training in treasury operations.
- Liaising with all areas of the bank as well as clients.
This is a fantastic o more >>
Private Banker, Private Client Middle East Regaion. Locations UK, Switzerland, Dubai
PERMANENT - Europe - Competitive Salary/package Bonus on AUM
** Our client is a leading International Bank ** more >>
Prime Brokerage Equity Nostro Process Manager
PERMANENT - London - £45k - £55k plus bonus
Prime Brokerage Equity Nostro Process Manager
An opportunity has become available to join a global leader within the Investment Banking field. Working within the Prime Brokerage team, this role wil more >>
Senior Private Banker
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
A leading Asset Management firm is seeking a Senior Private Banker for its London offices, to help grow its European business. Suitable candidates will currently have:
- A book of high net worth clients and ability to rapidly add value.
- Superb client relationship ability and an in-depth understanding of various Private Wealth strategies (particularly on the equity side), gained from experience in a major Private Banking institution.
The client is willing to pay a highly com more >>
Prime Brokerage - Business Analyst
PERMANENT - London - £80000.00 - N/A
Prime Brokerage - Business Analyst
Summary:
The Position Services Renovation program is a global initiative working to renovate existing processes and systems to build a leading edge platform for more >>
Prime Brokerage Middle Office - Equities
PERMANENT - London - £35000.00 to £45000.00 - N/A
Prime Brokerage Middle Office - Equities
Summary:
Our client is looking for a proactive and high performing individual to join their Prime Brokerage Middle Office Cash Processing team. Prime Broke more >>
Private Banker Turkish HNW onshore / offshore
PERMANENT - London - Strong package
Our client is a leading International Private Bank. more >>
Senior VP Private Banker UHNW Middle East
PERMANENT - London - Competitive Salary/package Bonus on AUM
Our client is an International Boutique Swiss Private Bank. Location: London. more >>
News & Press
Credit Suisse Group reports net loss of CHF 2.1 billion in the first quarter of 2008
Net writedowns in leveraged finance and structured products of CHF 5.3 billion in 1Q08. Continued significant reduction in risk exposures during 1Q08: risk exposures declined 41% in leveraged finance, 25% in commercial mortgages. Other than the areas affected directly by the credit crisis, most of our businesses performed well in 1Q08, with revenues near or above those in 1Q07. Steady inflows in Private Banking: net new assets of CHF 17.1 billion in 1Q08, including CHF 13.5 billion in Wealth Management. Strong BIS tier 1 ratio under Basel II of 9.8% as of the end of 1Q08. more >>
Jefferies' Private Equity Fund Placement Agent, Helix Associates, Expands In North America With Hiring Of Two Managing Directors
NEW YORK and LONDON, October 9, 2007 The Jefferies Investment Bank today announced that its Helix Associates division, a leading global private equity fund placement agent, has expanded its capabilities with the addition of Managing Directors Stephen D. Gray and Robert R. Rivett. These professionals continue the expansion of the Helix team at US-based Jefferies & Company, Inc., the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). more >>
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Finance Professionals City
Finance Professionals City is one of the top recruiters in the London finance markets, voted by candidates and clients as Best Contingency Recruiter 2007, awarded by Here Is The City. Established in 1997, the firm has built its successful track record and strong market reputation by offering expert career advice to candidates at the mid to senior level, from graduate to director.
Hanover Search & Selection
Hanover Search & Selection is a market leading Executive Search Firm specialising in the Financial Services market. Established for almost 15 years, Hanover's brand is renowned for consistently providing first class service to both top tier global clients and candidates alike. Our areas of expertise include: Actuarial and Risk, Asset Management, Investment Banking, Wealth Management and Life, Pensions & Insurance.
Employers
Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in all aspects of finance, around the world, around the clock.
Dresdner Kleinwort
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.
Jefferies
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.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, 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.
Best Selling Wealth Management Books
Simple But Not Easy by Richard Oldfield
Category: Stockmarkets
Described by the author as "a slightly autobiographical and heavily biased book about investing", Simple But Not Easy has plenty of interest to the experienced professional, and is aimed also at the interested amateur investor. The theme of the book is that investment is simpler than non-professionals think it is in that the rudiments can be expressed in ordinary English, and picked up by anybody. It is not a science. But investment is also difficult. People on the outside tend to think that anyone on the inside should be able to do better than the market indices. This is not so. Picking .....
The UK Stock Market Almanac 2008 by Stephen Eckett
Category: Stockmarkets
The Almanac is a unique reference work and provides you with the data to tackle the markets in the year ahead. The main section consists of a 52-week diary, supplemented with articles, facts, figures and trivia unique to the Almanac. This is an extremely valuable and massively informative companion to the financial year making the Almanac the one essential book for the serious trader or investor. Essentially three books in one, the Almanac consists of: 1. 2008 Financial diary - A 52-week, one week per page, diary Each page of the diary includes key financial dates including: impor.....
Big Money, Little Effort by Mark Shipman
Category: Stockmarkets
From the best-selling author of 'The Next Big Investment Boom', this book provides everything you need to know about making the world's money markets work to your advantage, enabling you to turn basic investments into a winning portfolio. 'Big Money, Little Effort' shows you how a straightforward, manageable and stress-free investment system, if properly applied and monitored, can protect you from the volatility of the world's stock markets while ensuring consistent returns on your original investment. In an industry awash with different (and often very vocal) opinions, the author removes the.....
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Category: Stockmarkets
The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Graham's book has remained the most respected guide to investing, due to his timeless philosophy of "value investing", which helps protect investors against the areas of possible substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies with which they will be comfortable down the road. Over the years, market developments have borne out the wisdom of Graham's basic policies, and in today's volatile m.....
The Harriman Book Of Investing Rules by Philip Jenks and Stephen Eckett
Category: Stockmarkets
For the first time, the tactics, strategies and insights relied on by 150 of the world's most respected financial experts are revealed in a concise, digestible form. Learn how you really make money in the markets from: - fund managers of billion-pound equity funds - traders in the options and futures markets - industry-rated analysts - economists from top business schools - writers on leading financial newspapers Each provides focused and practical rules on how to succeed in the market. Often counter-intuitive, their rules tell you exactly what to do and what not to do. No padding; j.....
The Complete TurtleTrader by Michael W Covel
Category: Stockmarkets
This is the true story behind Wall Street legend Richard Dennis, his disciples, the Turtles, and the trading techniques that made them millionaires. What happens when ordinary people are taught a system to make extraordinary money? Richard Dennis made a fortune on Wall Street by investing according to a few simple rules. Convinced that great trading was a skill that could be taught to anyone, he made a bet with his partner and ran a classified ad in the "Wall Street Journal" looking for novices to train. His recruits, later known as the Turtles, had anything but traditional Wall Street backg.....
Bernard Jones and the Temple of Mammon by Nick Louth
Category: Stockmarkets
In this second volume of the Bernard Jones Diaries, retired civil servant Bernard Jones is approaching his 64th birthday. Making money through investing remains as elusive as ever, though his overbearing and over-sexed wife Eunice finds no trouble spending it. Hell's Bells, the share club started at the Ring o'Bells pub by a coterie of dubious acquaintances, seems to be a better forum for gawping at barmaids and consuming pork scratchings than it is for an elevated debate over price earnings ratios and dividend yields. As ever, Bernard's family, Guardian-reading schoolteacher son Brian, dop.....
Taming the Lion by Richard Farleigh
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.....
A Bull in China by Jim Rogers
Category: Stockmarkets
If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of "the greatest economic boom since EnglandâÂÂs Industrial Revolution." In this indispensable new book, one of the world's most successful investors, Jim Rogers, brings his unerring investment acumen to bear on this huge and unruly land now being opened to the world and exploding in potential. Rogers didn't just wake up a Sinophile yesterday. He's been tracking the Chinese economy since he first went to C.....
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