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Lipsey Co:s top brand survey

Swede's picture
CF
(Monkey, 58
 
Points)
 on 4/16/13 at 4:40am

What are your opinions on Lipseys brand survey for commercial real estate?

You can find the results for 2013 here:
http://www.lipseyco.com/images/stories/Lipsey-2013...

with the top ten being:

1. CBRE
2. JLL and Colliers (tied)
4. Cushman & Wakefield
5. Newark Grubb Knight Frank
6. Cassidy Turley
7. NAI Global
8. Avison Young
9. Costar Group
10. Cresa

To me, from a European perspective, it seems very US focused, even though it claims having an international survey base and a broad methodology with respondants from around the globe.

Given its US focus, Im also surprised to not see Eastdil higher.

What MMs would you take over BBs (IBD)

black mamba22's picture
IB
(Baboon, 128
 
Points)
 on 3/12/13 at 1:00am
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Obviously subjective, but what MM banks would you take over the BBs if you were concerned about exit opps? Obviously there is variance amongst groups, but in general, what (if any) middle markets would you take over the bigger guys? Also, does an analyst at a firm like UBS really have a better shot at larger PE than someone from a top mm like JEF or HLHZ? Finally, I realize that this is POINTLESS, I'm just wondering.

2013 Rankings

Tupac's picture
(Orangutan, 369
 
Points)
 on 2/13/13 at 1:00am
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With the understanding of a few things:
1. Many trading operations are extremely different, and that is important to factor in.
2. These are subjective opinions based off of user experience.
3. Fit is usually more important than "rank".

I think it's somewhat important that people have a better idea of where they stand, given it's about that time where people have to start making decisions.

I think we should do the best we can to objectively categorize companies based off of their performance and the quality of people they attract and retain. Does everybody else agree?

That being said, the categories: (all rankings tentative until further discussion...)

Sales & Trading: Equities (and Related)
Tier 1: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BAML
Tier 2:
Tier 3:

2012 League Tables Are Up!

bankbanker101's picture
(Baboon, 166
 
Points)
 on 1/11/13 at 6:00am
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Let me know if you guys find something different. These are pulled from Thomson One.

Legend: Rank, Name, Deal val total, mkt share, # of deals

TABLE 1: WORLDWIDE ANNOUNCED (2012)

1 Goldman Sachs & Co 717,829.52, 27.6, 433
2 Morgan Stanley 548,356.79, 21.1, 391
3 Barclays 471,371.17, 18.1, 276
4 JP Morgan 444,214.27, 17.1, 285
5 Citi 428,598.35, 16.5, 255
6 Credit Suisse 401,067.22, 15.4, 272
7 Deutsche Bank 379,160.93, 14.6, 246
8 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 351,588.93, 13.5, 224
9 Nomura 220,094.15, 8.5, 211
10 UBS 214,677.89, 8.3, 186
11 Rothschild 213,902.22, 8.2, 305
12 Lazard 202,384.86, 7.8, 260
13 Evercore Partners 141,532.41, 5.4, 123
14 RBC Capital Markets 114,080.06, 4.4, 191
15 BNP Paribas SA 107,659.65, 4.1, 108

Restructuring Focused Group Rankings

teejayyyyyyyy's picture
(Monkey, 40
 
Points)
 on 10/30/12 at 6:22pm
monkey pecking order

So how would you guys rank these banks strictly based on opportunities to Distressed Hedge Fund/ PE firms?

I figure Blackstone and Lazard are at the top, but I have an opportunity to pursue with a couple of the firms listed below and wanted to see where it sizes up:

Evercore
Moelis
Centerview
P J Solomon
Miller Buckfire
Millstein
Greenhill
Rothschild
Guggenheim
Imperial
Chanin (D&P's Rx arm)

This is strictly for the restructuring practices of each firm listed. Again not really trying to rank which one is marginally better than the other, but perhaps a tier system? Just to see which ones have possibilities for distressed buy-side options.

LinkedIn provided very little in terms of strictly distressed buy-side opportunities, btw.

Thanks for all the help.

The Economist 2012 Rankings

Boothorbust's picture
O
(King Kong, 1,130
 
Points)
 on 10/4/12 at 6:05pm

The Economist 2012 rankings are out
http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ra...

Love that Booth is on top, but anyone who puts Darden above HBS and Stanford at 8 needs to be looked at with a bit of a crooked eye.

The Economist weighs student surveys very heavily in their rankings, so obviously take with a grain (or a shaker) of salt - as with all rankings.

IBD Group Rankings

bananawhore's picture
(Monkey, 52
 
Points)
 on 9/7/12 at 3:30am

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What's up with people ranking target schools?

Beretta's picture
ST
(Orangutan, 358
 
Points)
 on 7/17/12 at 1:20pm

Never understood why people would make the effort to rank target schools. Most rankings I've read on this forum are basically re-creations of U.S. Newsweek...and they are certainly not accurate based on last year's or this year's numbers. Most people seem to just make up a random ranking to justify their own bias (or to support their own school). Personally I think this whole Tier 1 and Tier 2 thing is a joke.

Thoughts?

When are the next US News B School Rankings to be Released?

shorttheworld's picture
EN
 
Points)
 on 3/5/12 at 10:10pm
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Anyone have a definitive date? I know they were released mid March last year but not sure if this is the same time all the time...

Any schools drop out of the M7?

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Financial Times MSF Rankings

SalGr's picture
AM
(Baboon, 139
 
Points)
 on 6/20/11 at 1:23pm

The first MSF rankings are here-Financial Times has published its 2011 MSF rankings (in 2010 it was just a listing...).

IMO,THEY SUCK,just check them out...

http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/mast...

http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/mast...

The Most Laughable School Rankings Ever

dmackorth's picture
(Orangutan, 333
 
Points)
 on 6/8/11 at 9:35pm

I think this is foreign, but it is the most ridiculous list of rankings ever. You could not even make a more comical list if you tried.

Take a look:
http://www.webometrics.info/top12000.asp

JPM - 2011E / 2012E Detailed Revenue IB Split (FICC, Eq)

InGodsHands's picture
(Chimp, 15
 
Points)
 on 5/23/11 at 11:04am

I remember Citi posted a report on the banks overall expected performance (specifically in FICC) a while back. I believe this report by JPM gives a much more updated and detailed understanding into the expected performance of all the major banks in 2011 and 2012.

Link:
https://mm.jpmorgan.com/stp/t/c.do?i=5930E-12&u=a_...
Page 32 of the PDF illustrates 2011E
Page 19 of the PDF illustrates 2012E

Here's how they stack up in Revenues: (only focusing on the BB banks)

Fixed Income Markets:

Mortgages:

2011E:
1) BAC
2) C
3) DB
4) CS
5) GS
6) BCS
7) UBS
8) MS

2012E:
1) BAC
2) CS
3) C
4) DB
5) GS
6) BCS
7) UBS
8) MS

Credit Trading:

2011E:
1) GS
2) BAC
3) DB
4) UBS
5) C
6) BCS
7) CS
8) MS

2012E:
1) GS

Top Names in Hong Kong and Singapore

Souijuro77's picture
IB
(Monkey, 63
 
Points)
 on 4/7/11 at 2:43pm

Hi,

I'm curious to hear from anyone who's currently working in Asia or have had some experience in Asia as to some of the top 2nd-tier names in both Hong Kong and Singapore. We all know the US bulge brackets so I'm thinking more along the lines of HSBC, Standard Chartered, RBS, Macqarie etc. Does anyone have any info on any of these names?

Also, what are some of the exit opportunities after banking in Asia? People don't jerk off to the buyside that much back there do they?

This is where you should work, bank by bank, market by market

technoviking's picture
O
 
Points)
 on 4/5/11 at 6:51pm

From efinancialcareers.co.uk
http://news.eFinancialCareers.co.uk/newsandviews_i...

This is where you should be working, bank by bank, market by market
4 April 2011
Sarah Butcher

If you aspire to work for a bank that’s the global market leader in your product area, but for some reason are ignorant as to which bank that is, we have the answers.

Derived from figures from analysts at JPMorgan, who last week released a detailed analysis of each banks’ revenues, by product, for 2010 - plus projections for 2011 and 2012, here are the expected market leaders for 2011(excluding JPMorgan), plus their predicted direction of travel.

Advisory, predicted market shares 2011

Goldman Sachs: 28.6% (increasing)
Morgan Stanley: 19.3% (decreasing, slightly)

BB Rankings 2011

dukeofduke's picture
(Monkey, 32
 
Points)
 on 3/27/11 at 4:19pm

I want you to rank them!

Goldman Sachs
Morgan Stanley
JP Morgan
Credit Suisse
Citi
Douche Bank
Barcap
BAML
UBS

Get ready for a bunch of losers aspiring to get BAML/UBS jobs come in here and complain about rankings being "meaningless." Yeah, sure bet you'd think that if you were at GS/MS.

Ranking of Management Consulting Firms

SebLer's picture
(Chimp, 6
 
Points)
 on 3/13/11 at 3:58pm

Hi everyone,

what do you guys think of this ranking of management consulting firms:

http://firmsconsulting.com/ranking-mckinsey-bain-b...

My background: college student, trying to find out more about the consulting market. I thought this ranking was useful and better than the slightly arbitrary "prestige score" of Vault...

School Rankings

D M's picture
O
 
Points)
 on 3/8/11 at 9:55am

http://www.jdoasis.com/us-news-best-law-firms

I just wrote up this post over at JDOasis about the way US News ranks their top law firms by tiers vs #1, 2, 3, etc. What do you guys think?

Is this a good ranking of trading desks?

ambition56's picture
ST
(Gorilla, 601
 
Points)
 on 1/7/11 at 4:32pm

http://www.totalsecuritization.com/569/75659/TS053...

what do you guys think? is this a good ranking of the trading groups at top BBs? Or does it only cover a few desks

Glassdoor Best Places to Work

benjaminx's picture
CO
(Chimp, 7
 
Points)
 on 12/16/10 at 3:58pm

Glassdoor just came out with its 2011 list of Best Places to work, based on reviews submitted by employees of the companies themselves. Facebook is #1, Southwest is #2 (?) and Bain & Co. is #3. Even though it seems like everyone on here is dying to make it to Wall Street, you might want to be careful what you wish for. Banks don't fare too well, with Goldman the highest at #17, MS at #37, and DB at #48. Consulting must rock, though, with MBB all in the top 20. I was surprised to see Apple so low at #20 and Google at #30, but maybe they're the BBs of the tech world. What do you guys think?

http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_K...

BKCT Group and Posting on WSO in General

SLO89's picture
ST
 
Points)
 on 11/29/10 at 10:08am

OK... I signed up 3 weeks ago after doing a google search on the bkct group and seeing a ton of negative posts on this site and I wanted to email the posters to find out what the story was. A few people we really helpful (shorttheworld, JsinNola, Win1680) about the business of trading in general...others not so much, but even from them I learned a couple of things. 1) a good deal of the people on this site are like me.... soon-to-be-grads looking for a career; or unlike me, have already graduated, are unemployed, and are failing to realize that their best shot at a career is doing back office work at a 3rd tier firm. 2) everyone has a strong opinion, and most people can't substantiate why they have that opinion. How many threads can there be about "prop firm rankings"?

2010 Business Week MBA rankings

jrt336's picture
(Orangutan, 337
 
Points)
 on 11/11/10 at 5:24pm

1. Chicago
2. Harvard
3. UPenn
4. Northwestern
5. Stanford
6. Duke
7. Michigan
8. Cal
9. Columbia
10. MIT
11. UVA
12. SMU
13. Cornell
14. Dartmouth
15. CMU
16. UNC
17. UCLA
18. NYU
19. IU
20. MSU

http://www.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/bs...
57 total bschools ranked. Thoughts?

Best Damn Rankings Period

no homo's picture
HF
(Orangutan, 266
 
Points)
 on 10/22/10 at 1:48am

Want to know the best way to rank the banks? How about asking the incredibly obvious question "Who makes the most money?" instead of looking at the league tables and talking about "prestige"...

This is how those rankings would shake out (all NI ttm):

1. JPMorgan Chase & Co.: 14.30B
2. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.: 11.55B
3. Deutsche Bank AG: 7.72B
4. Credit Suisse Group: 6.32B
5. Barclays PLC: 5.16B
6. UBS AG: 5.08B
7. Morgan Stanley: 3.39B
8. Lazard: (0.95B)
9. Bank of America Corporation: (2.00B)
10. Citigroup, Inc.: (3.90B)

Can this please be the last "rank the bulge brackets" thread for the next 24 hours? They're all the same except for Goldman and that's just common knowledge.

The American Taxpayer: Wall Street’s #1 fee payer

Jorgé's picture
(Neanderthal, 2,182
 
Points)
 on 10/6/10 at 7:27pm
Screaming girl

For decades Main Street has been no fan of Wall Street, but in the last few years the general public has probably made banker bashing a national pastime. They have vilified financiers as greedy and immoral, they have blamed them for the recent turmoil, and all in all have been just total dicks about Wall Street.

Imagine their horror when they find out that they top the rankings in fees to its most hated enemy.

Hedge Fund Kings

Jorgé's picture
(Neanderthal, 2,182
 
Points)
 on 9/15/10 at 11:43am
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The Financial Times has recently released their top 10 Hedge Fund manager list, and no surprise here, it’s pretty much a cross section of the funds found on this recent thread. (Which I just found out also has a link to the article… Moving on.)

Net gains for investors since inception was the measure used to rank the managers and a lot of surprising facts about their returns were given, like did you know Eddie Lampert’s ESL has earned more than British Airways over the same period?

2011 Vault Rankings for Consulting Firms

Elegant_Hobo's picture
(Chimp, 7
 
Points)
 on 8/25/10 at 10:09am

http://www.vault.com/wps/portal/usa/rankings/indiv...

Personally think more weight should be put on prestige.

Tier 2 MSF Programs rankings

The.RealDeal's picture
O
(Orangutan, 272
 
Points)
 on 6/18/10 at 2:04pm

Not even sure if most of these are Tier 2. I realize that I created a similar topic a while ago, but I revised my list with regards to the school I think I can get into. I don't feel like retelling my story but Im basically aiming for a decent MSF program that will be regionally comptetive and at least on the statistical side of things, have placed someone in the Chicago/NYC/LA areas if they are amazing. Can readers please post any comments/feelings/ advice about this list and maybe which one is the most respected, have a decent alumni network and could give me a decent shot at getting a job after completed the program. It does not matter whether is a boutique IB's or a bulge bracket bank and I don't know yet whether Im interested in IB, AM or any other directions..

University of Kansas
University of Denver (Daniels College of Business)
Tulsa (Veru Expensive, Long shot, not excited about it really)
University of Alabama
Seattle University
University of San Francisco and their MS in Financial Analysis ( Seems like this would get me nowhere, never heard of this college)
Case Western Reserve

There are also these:

Disgusting attitude of money, prestige, target schools, one-upmanship

Seigniorage's picture
O
(Orangutan, 300
 
Points)
 on 5/7/10 at 8:50am

It's sad how this website has become a haven for discussions about 1st year bonuses, BB rankings, clothes, how much money one needs, jealousy of target school kids, prestigious possessions (cars, watches, etc), etc, etc
e.g. One recent post asked whether making $20m/yr is possible as a banker.

Who the fuck cares? Sorry to rant, but its sad how wsoasis quality has decreased as enrollment has skyrocketed. It's become the USAtoday of wall street discussion.
And what is this garbage about "fratty" e.g. "fratty banks"? the hell does that even mean?

I move for bullshit forum topics to be deleted. (including this one afters its been read!)

Equity Research Rankings? (MS TMT)

ElijahPrice's picture
IB
(Orangutan, 282
 
Points)
 on 4/22/10 at 2:33pm

Anyone know where I can find rankings of various research groups? I'm particularly curious about how MS TMT stacks up with the rest of The Street. Thanks.