Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets

What are your thoughts of RBC in London? How is there deal flow? How is there healthcare team? What were some of the recent transactions they did? What is 1st year Analyst salaries? How is the life - work balance?

Any information would help.

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Know at analyst level they pay in line with the street, not sure about Associate & above (assume it's more dependent on strength of the team for levels above Analyst).

You know you've been working too hard when you stop dreaming about bottles of champagne and hordes of naked women, and start dreaming about conditional formatting and circular references.
 

ie.: they can lend money to a specific buyer to finance an acquisition

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More strength to underwrite equity transactions such as for initial and secondary offerings (very popular in Canada for MLPs and REITs as MLPs have no tax deductible advantage so they do more secondary offerings). Ability to participate in leveraged finance transaction such as recapitalizations for extraordinary dividends and issue of high yields. If you do not have a Fortress balance sheet like RBC underwriting below investment grade bonds are obviously too risky.

 
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ddp34Gotcha-- thanks man. Had a couple of questions:

So, what is SO GOOD in RBC's balance sheet, that they can support larger financing, high yield issuance, overall leveraged finance deals, etc. (basically what you have mentioned in the above) as oppose to their competitors like Jefferies for example. Thanks!

For what you're talking about, it's not necessarily that RBC's balance sheet is SO GOOD, it's that it's big. Quick look on Yahoo shows RBC's balance sheet last year was at $756B while JEF was at $35B. The bigger you are, the more money you have to throw around and the less damage a single risky transaction could have on your BS.

MM IB -> Corporate Development -> Strategic Finance
 

its not considered a BB but they are strong in lev fin or with big financings because of their hefty balance sheet capabilities

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A lot of build-out the last 5 yrs or so - helped their rise to now a top 20 bank (league tables). Your work will be financing heavy b/c of their balance sheet

Very good culture - work hard, play hard, down to earth people - but still group/people dependent

Hours are standard banking but a little less and more efficient throughout groups (less BS and useless work)

Exit opps- not great. Lots of analysts do their third year and also get promoted to associate. You'll have to do a lot of work on your own to get into a PE shop

I'd suggest you put a lot of emphasis on why RBC and why you want to work there over other banks. Emphasize its MM experience in a BB atmosphere/deals

 

Their energy ER team is pretty good

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I did the numerical test for DB Hong-Kong (Wealth Management) in mid-february and also have not heard back yet.. So looks like you're not alone bud! :)

 

Best in Canada, but they are in the same boat as the rest of the Canadian banks south of the border. Actually, it's more of a dingy or a raft than a boat.

 

explain what you mean by dingy....do you really have any idea on this topic being a first year? or are you just saying that because you pretend to know.

I'm asking not to jab at you, just want to know if you really know the type of business canadian firms do in the U.S.

 
IronBankerexplain what you mean by dingy....do you really have any idea on this topic being a first year? or are you just saying that because you pretend to know.

I'm asking not to jab at you, just want to know if you really know the type of business canadian firms do in the U.S.

I am a Canadian working at a boutique in the US. I'm actually a second-year now too, I should change my profile. I know a lot of guys who work at BBs in the US. I also know a lot of Canadians who work in Canadian banks in the US (my brother included). So, yes, I would say that I have 'some idea' on this topic.

Basically what needed to be said re. Canadian banks in the US has been covered in this thread, so I'm not going to bother repeating. Just thought I would justify my previous position.

 

Canadian firms are mid-market at best in the US...and generally don't do anything too outstanding.

For example, CIBC used to have relatively large operations in Manhattan, but cut way back and now has a small office (not sure if they've actually moved to NJ). It's just not as profitable down there for the Canada banks-don't have the capital of US firms.

 

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