...Careers in Investment Banking WetFeet Insider Guide 2005 Edition The WetFeet Research Methodology You hold in your hands a copy of the best-quality research available for job seekers. We have designed this Insider Guide to save you time doing your job research and to provide highly accurate information written precisely for the needs of the job-seeking public. (We also hope that you’ll enjoy reading it, because, believe it or not, the job search doesn’t have to be a pain in the neck.) Each WetFeet Insider Guide represents hundreds of hours of careful research and writing. We start with a review of the public information available. (Our writers are also experts in reading between the lines.) We augment this information with dozens of in-depth interviews of people who actually work for each company or industry we cover. And, although we keep the identity of the rank-and-file employees anonymous to encourage candor, we also interview the company’s recruiting staff extensively, to make sure that we give you, the reader, accurate information about recruiting, process, compensation, hiring targets, and so on. (WetFeet retains all editorial control of the product.) We also regularly survey our members and customers to learn about their experiences in the recruiting process. Finally, each Insider Guide goes through an editorial review and fact-checking process to make sure that the information and writing live up to our exacting standards before it goes out the door. Are we perfect...
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...Investment Banking in USA and Bangladesh Scope for Innovation Md. Shakhawat Hossain1 Abstract I discuss briefly the purposes and activities of Investment banking in USA and Bangladesh. The overall performance and structures of investment banks in USA and Bangladesh are shown in this report. Financial system of a country is always getting advanced and complex. Banking system in today’s world has evolved over long period of time. There have been lots of ups and downs or we can call financial crisis in this time period. One of the heavily regulated sectors in world economy is banking sector. This report focuses on how a bank performs in advanced economy and moderately advanced economic situation. There is a significant scope for Bangladeshi investment bank to compete in global market. Several studies have shown that investment banks play a major role along with government and in public finance. 1. East West University, Department of Business Administration. This project preparation is for academic and final year submission to project supervisor Quazi Sagota Samina. 1 The Evolution of Banking Banks are just one part of the world of financial institutions, standing alongside investment banks, insurance companies, finance companies, investment managers and other companies that profit from the creation and flow of money. As financial intermediaries, banks stand between depositors who supply capital and borrowers who demand capital. Given how much commerce...
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...equipment and software B) inventory C) real estate D) trade credit E) marketable securities Answer: B Difficulty: Easy Rationale: See Table 1.4. 3. In 2005, ____________ was the least significant liability of U. S. nonfinancial businesses in terms of total value. A) bonds and mortgatges B) bank loans C) inventories D) trade debt E) marketable securities Answer: B Difficulty: Easy Rationale: See Table 1.4. 4. In 2005, ____________ was the most significant financial asset of U. S. nonfinancial businesses in terms of total value. A) cash B) trade credit C) trade debt D) inventory E) marketable securities Answer: B Difficulty: Easy Rationale: See Table 1.4. 5. The material wealth of a society is equal to the sum of _________. A) all financial assets B) all real assets C) all financial and real assets D) all physical assets E) none of the above Answer: B Difficulty: Easy Rationale: Financial assets do not directly contribute the productive capacity of the economy. 6. ____________ of an investment bank. A) Citigroup is an example B) Merrill Lynch is an example C) Goldman is an example D) B and C are each examples E) Each of the above is an example Answer: E Difficulty: Easy 7. _______ are financial assets. A) Bonds...
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...LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT Report on Summer Training [Title] Investment avenues Submitted to Lovely Professional University In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the award of Degree of Master of Business Administration Submitted by: Tanu rani 10904883 DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY JALANDHAR NEW DELHI GT ROAD PHAGWARA PUNJAB acknowledgement I present this project report on “INVESTMENT AVENUES” IN AXIS BANK LTD., Kashmiri gate, near hasan building with a sense of great pleasure and satisfaction. I undersign with pleasure take this opportunity to thank all those related directly or indirectly in preparation of this project report. I started working on this project under the invaluable guidance of Honorable 'Mr. ROHIT BANSAL SIR for which I am very much thankful for her valued time given for the purpose. Without her co-operation our project work would have been difficult to complete. I express our sincere thanks to Mr. PARITOSH GUPTA, (Branch Manager) in Axis Bank Ltd., Wardha and staff in that organization. I am also thankful to Mrs. RASHMI MITTAL MAAM [Dean of our college] to allow us to carry out this project. Date: Place: Fortnightly Progress Report School Name----Business...
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...all know that Bank is nothing but a financial institution. And it’s a very much well known word to all of us. Bank actually serves as a financial intermediary. The term "Bank" may refer to one of several related types of entities like: Central bank, State- owned Commercial bank, Private Commercial bank or Merchant bank, Foreign Commercial bank, Specialized Development bank, etc. But when we use the term bank it generally means ‘commercial bank’ that collects the deposit from surplus unit of the society and then lends the deposits to the deficit units of the society. But the new thing is that how it operates and presenting its activities for the purpose of serving customer requirements to increase their well-being in the sense of wealth. Banks also provide many services for clients to make their life easy in this busy environment. In this competitive environment in today’s world, the entire bank increases their facilities in favor of their customers to retain them and capture more share of the market to be leader. The whole banking system is based on the Interest system. But according to the Islamic rules interest is not legal. So many people, who could be the potential customers of Bank, feel not to engage themselves in the banking system. To facilitate them in addition of the Conventional banking System there is another System we can see a banking world that run according to Shariah. This system established in Bangladesh on 13th March 1983, named Islamic Bank Bangladesh Limited...
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...Best Investment Banks 2011 New York, February 22, 2011 — Global Finance announces its selection of the World's Best Investment Banks 2011 to be published in its April 2011 issue. Global Finance editors, with input from industry experts, used a series of criteria to arrive at their selections. These included market share, number and size of deals, service and advice, structuring capabilities, distribution network, efforts to address market conditions, innovation, pricing, after-market performance of underwritings and market reputation. Deals announced or completed in 2010 were considered. "The investment banking industry has changed as a result of the financial crisis," said Global Finance publisher Joseph D. Giarraputo. "The best institutions are those that have a business model focused on customer needs." For editorial information please contact: Dan Keeler, Editor, email: dan@gfmag.com GLOBAL AWARDS | Best Investment Bank | Morgan Stanley | Best Equity Bank | Morgan Stanley | Best Debt Bank | Barclays Capital | Best M&A Bank | Morgan Stanley | Best Up-and-Comer | QInvest | Most Creative | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | SECTORS | Consumer | Credit Suisse | Financial Institutions | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | Health Care | J.P. Morgan | Infrastructure | Scotia Capital | Industrial/Chemicals | J.P. Morgan | Media/Entertainment | J.P. Morgan | Metals & Mining | BMO Capital Markets | Oil & Gas | Bank of America...
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...FINANCE & ECONOMICS Efficiency and Risk-taking in Pre-crisis Investment Banks Nemanja Radić, Franco Fiordelisi, Claudia Girardone Working Paper Series No 08/11 Efficiency and risk-taking in pre-crisis investment banks Nemanja Radić1, Franco Fiordelisi2, Claudia Girardone3 Abstract Investment banks’ core functions expose them to a wide array of risks. This paper analyses cost and profit efficiency for a sample of investment banks for the G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and US) and Switzerland prior to the recent financial crisis. We follow Coelli et al. (1999)’s methodology to adjust the estimated cost and profit efficiency scores for environmental influences including key banks’ risks, bank- and industry specific factors and macroeconomic conditions. Our evidence suggests that failing to account for environmental factors can considerably bias the efficiency scores for investment banks. Specifically, bank-risk taking factors (including liquidity and capital risk exposures) are found particularly important to accurately assess profit efficiency: i.e. profit efficiency estimates are consistently underestimated without accounting for bank risktaking. Interestingly, our evidence suggests that size matters for both cost and profit efficiency, however this does not imply that more concentrated markets are more efficient. JEL classification: D2, G24, G32, L25 Key words: Investment Banking;Stochastic Frontier Analysis; Efficiency; Environmental...
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...A STUDY ON INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES OF ISLAMI BANK BANGLADESH LIMITED PREFACE Bank is a part and parcel of the modern economy of any country. Like any other countries in the world banks play the most crucial role not in the economic but also the social, political environment in Bangladesh. Even it is wise to say that the financial sector of Bangladesh is solely dominated by the banking sector, because the non bank financial sector of Bangladesh is yet to develop to desired level, although it is growing very rapidly. The invention of banking based on Islamic shariah is a relatively new concept in the global banking arena. Now a day the Islamic Shariah based banks are not operating only in the Muslim countries but also in non Muslim countries with the same level of faith and efficiencies parallel to the conventional interest based banks. Even in some cases some of the Islamic Shariah based banks has exceeded their competing traditional banks in terms of service quality and some other key financial indicators. In Bangladesh Muslim constitutes more than 80% of her total population. These people possess strong faith on Allah and they want to lead their lives as per the instructions given in the holy Quran and Sunnah; the way shown by the prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Sm). But no Islamic banking system was developed here up to 1983. The Traditional banking sector was fully based on interest. This is why most of our religious...
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...Internship Report on [pic] “Overall Branch Banking and A Comprehensive Review on Investment of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited” [pic] “Overall Branch Banking and A Comprehensive Review on Investment of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited” Submitted to Professor Ashraf Hossain Dean School of Business Asian University of Bangladesh Submission Date March 30, 2008 This report is submitted as the partial fulfillment of BBA program Date: August 2, 2007 To Sub: Submission of Internship report on “Overall Branch Banking and A Comprehensive Review on Investment of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited." Dear Sir, With due respect and humble submission I would like to inform you that I am the students of Md.Shohel Khan ,School of Business . It is indeed a great pleasure to have the opportunity to submit the Internship report. I have prepared the opportunity to submit the Internship report according to your instructions. The topic name is " Overall Branch Banking and A Comprehensive Review on Investment of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited. ". While preparing this Internship report I came to know about several terms on banking sector. I have tried my best to present all the things to make the report more informative and usual one. If any part of the assignments means inappropriate...
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...Investment banks Services 1. Making an acquisition/ effecting a buyout (mergers and acquisition): With increasing competitive pressures being placed on businesses and the trend towards globalization, companies are engaging more and more in M&A activity. Many companies looking to expand or streamline their business will use investment banks for advice on potential targets and/or buyers. This normally will include a full valuation and recommended tactics. The investment bank's role in mergers and acquisitions falls into one of either two buckets: seller representation or buyer representation (also called "target representation" and "acquirer representation"). One of the main roles of investment banking in mergers and acquisitions is to establish fair value for the companies involved in the transaction. Investment banks are experts at calculating what a business is worth. They are also able to predict how that worth could be altered (i.e., what happens to the value of a company in a number of different scenarios and what those potential futures would mean financially). Financial models are constructed by investment banks to capture the most important fixed and variable financial components that could influence the overall value of a company. Investment banks do not just rely on buyers and sellers approaching them. They will also source deals by studying the market themselves and approaching companies with their own strategic ideas (i.e., they might suggest that two...
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...Activities:- A study on International Finance Investment and Commerce Bank LTD Thesis for the partial fulfillment of BBA program of BBA (I) in Management Studies PROJECT PAPER ON Information Technology (IT) for improving Banking Activities:- A study on International Finance Investment and Commerce Bank LTD Under supervision ------------------------- Prof. Md. Mosharraf Hossain Ph.D. Professor Department of Management Studies Jagannath University Prepared by: Md. Momin Uddin BBA 8th semester Roll-06671546, sec-B Department of Management studies Jagannath University Letter of submission Date- August 10, 2012 Prof. Md. Mosharraf Hossain Ph.D. Professor Department of Management Studies Jagannath University Subject: Submission of the assignment paper titled “Information Technology (IT) for improving Banking Activities-A study on IFIC Bank ltd” Dear Sir, It’s my pleasure to submit you my project paper on “Information Technology for improving Banking Activities-A study on IFIC Bank ltd.” I have completed my project paper on IFIC Bank ltd as a part of my study. Here is my overview on ‘Information Technology for improving Banking Activities-A study on IFIC Bank ltd. I have tried to explain my learning and experience which gathered knowledge from my thesis program briefly in this report. I appreciate that this approach really contributes in giving my course learning a lasting shape in me. The entire report is based on my research and survey from bank. I have put my best effort to complete...
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...stability. The case reviews the company’s efforts to deal with its choices and with the involvement of key financial intermediaries in providing roadmaps to these choices. It illuminates the broad spectrum of alternatives available in the capital markets and the tradeoffs in following difficult alternatives. In particular it highlights the shifting emphasis between debt and equity as the company struggled with its financial demands. The case provides realistic understanding of the viewpoint of corporate financial management in crisis situations and the interplay with investment banks in finding the best solutions in the capital markets to deal with fundamental financial issues. The case “The Union Carbide Deal” highlights three phases of the company’s financial situation. The first phase includes the Bhopal plan disaster and GAF takeover attempt. The second phase is the debt burden, and the final phase is the bank financing and equity. In discussing the first phase, the Bhopal accident is really the catalyst for all the financial issues Union Carbide experienced from 1984 when it occurred until long past the end of the case and its eventual merger with Dow Chemical. As described in a New York Times article by Claudae Deutsch, “the bitter aftertastes continue to tarnish their corporate reputations….Those issues have had lingering impacts on their valuations on Wall Street,'' (Deutsch, p.2) The impact of this devastating loss of human life was understandably massive on...
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...* Which forces in Goldman Sachs external environment have accounted most for The fortunes of fate “that the company- indeed, the investment banking industry – has experienced since 2008? Ans: The external environment is everything outside organizations boundaries that might affect it. Included in the external environment that surrounds an organization, is the economic dimension, which encompasses the overall health and stability of the economic climate that the company operates in. In the case of Goldman Sachs, the firm was inevitably touched by the global financial crisis and was forced to convert from an investment bank to a holding-company bank in 2008. Although executives attempted damage control, there were factors in play beyond their control, causing Goldman Sachs company stock price to fall approximately 50% at the height of the financial collapse. * Explain the roles of Goldman’s partners, both as owners and as employees, in forming and managing its internal environment. Ans: 470 of Goldman Sachs 35000 employees enjoy profit-sharing benefits, as partial owner of the financial giant. The author also states that the owners of a business are those who hold legal property rights over the organization, so we can interpret that these 470 select individuals play a dual-role in Goldman Sachs. On one end, their performance as employees directly affects the company profitability and customer retention, and on the other, those same individuals reap the benefit of their...
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...notable HR practices. Since our company “CARA SKY” has been trying to perform well but somewhere along the line of performance there is something misplaced or broken. CARA SKY Company has been suffering from employees’ absenteeism, which is being caused the morale of the employees. Having consulted the best HR practices in CIMB and Microsoft, the objective is to accommodate or apply some newer hr practices to reduce the problem of employee absenteeism in CARA SKY Company. CIMB CIMB Bank is one of the reputed banks operating in Malaysia. CIMB has started its operation back in 1920s by starting a bank in Sarawak. For the last 95 years, CIMB has been operating successfully and also expanding their business to some Asian countries namely Singapore, Indonesian, Cambodia, and Thailand. CIMB has two mainstream banking products namely – CIMB banking solutions for conventional customers and CIMB Islamic window for Muslim customers (Cimb.com, 2015).The company vision statement is to be the Premier Investment Bank in Malaysia post liberalization and deregulation and mission statement is to invest in our people to derive a culture driven by innovation to deliver quality service whilst providing superior returns and value to our stakeholders. Human resource being an importance resource for CIMB, CIMB has been following some of the industry’s best noteworthy HR...
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...CREDIT RATING REPORT ON Akij Food & Beverage Ltd. REPORT: RR/848/11 This is a credit rating report as per the provisions of the Credit Rating Companies Rules 1996. CRISL’s entity rating is valid one year for long-term rating and 6 months for short term rating. CRISL’s Bank loan rating (blr) is valid one year for long term facilities and up-to 365 days (according to tenure of short term facilities) for short term facilities. After the above periods, these ratings will not carry any validity unless the entity goes for surveillance. CRISL followed Corporate Rating Methodology published in CRISL website www.crislbd.com Address: CRISL Nakshi Homes (4th & 5th Floor) 6/1A, Segunbagicha, Dhaka-1000 Tel: 7173700-1 Fax: 88-02-9565783 Email: crisldhk@crislbd.com Analysts: Entity Rating Outlook Bank Facilities Ratings: Bank/FIs IBBL Date of Rating Declaration Long Term APositive Mode of Exposures (TK in Million) TLO* of Tk.750.16 WCL** of Tk. 83.66 May 26, 2011 Short Term ST-3 Asif Imtiaz Ahmed aiahmed@crislbd..com Asiful Huq asif@crislbd.com Entity Rating Long Term: AShort Term: ST-3 Outlook: Positive Ratings blr Ablr A- *TLO- Term Loan Outstanding **WCL Working Capital Limit ** CRISL rated the short term facilities under long term scale in view of their revolving nature 1.0 RATIONALE AKIJ FOOD & BEVERAGE LTD. CRISL has assigned ‘A-’ (pronounced as single A minus) rating in the Long Term and ‘ST-3’ rating in the Short Term to Akij Food and Beverage Limited...
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