Which Lateral Offer To Choose?
Looking at the following roles and was curious on which one to choose to best optimize exit opportunities within banking/buyside and that also provides decent WLB?
- Commercial Banking at a BB
- Loan Capital Markets at a Large Tier-3 Balance Sheet Bank
- Securitization/ABS Banking at a Large Tier-2 Balance Sheet Bank
What is ur current role?
Based on the most helpful WSO content, here's a breakdown of the roles you mentioned and how they align with your goals of optimizing exit opportunities within banking/buyside while maintaining decent work-life balance (WLB):
Commercial Banking at a Bulge Bracket (BB):
Loan Capital Markets at a Large Tier-3 Balance Sheet Bank:
Securitization/ABS Banking at a Large Tier-2 Balance Sheet Bank:
Recommendation:
Ultimately, your decision should align with your career goals and tolerance for work-life trade-offs.
Sources: BofA Wholsale Credit vs Credit Risk, https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/private-equity/going-from-mm-investment-bank-to-mega-fund?customgpt=1, Poaching junior analysts / hot job market?, Banking vs. The Buy-side: 10.5 considerations, Am I missing something about buyside exits?
Securitization and ABS has the best outlook and growth - assuming you’re interested in the field (and securitization here hopefully does not mean CLO)
Thanks! While ABS/Securitization is interesting, I heard that it tends to pigeonhole you into that space given how specialized of an asset class it is.
If my goal is to maximize my future exit opps and optionality on both the sellside and buyside, how do you think the ABS role stack up with the other two? Thanks
Do the one you're most interested in or gives you the optionality. Do not play the near term growth outlook game this early in your career but it's good to keep in mind like you don't wanna go do Sales and Trading or a vanilla research position at this point. By the time you make principal where real dollars come it could be a min. If that BB is JPM or Citi I'd say take the commercial banking crush it and use internal mobility programs that are strong. Loan Capital Markets is a broad seat is that being the junior on the sales and syndicate desk? See how other have exited...its a great job as a senior but not the best as a junior. It really comes down to your interest securitization / ABS structured pools of assets.
Curious as to what your thoughts are about starting your career in ABS/securitisation banking. I am interested in this area, but of course a little worried about optionality down the line if I wanted to pivot to another branch of credit. Thank you for your help!
I say do it if it interests you knowing its limiting a bit but you have an MBA to bail you out later. I say this because the guys who went infra/ABS when i started out or a few years early are making a killing rn, even some secondaries guys so hard to say what works but at the end of the day its all the same shit esp at the senior level - if you can make good money, get economics in your fund, like the ppl in your fund, keep your hobbies/WLB to an extent, and enjoy the work you are in the top 1%. Infra/ABS and even DL until recently were paying better than PE. I think the task for you is talking to everyone abt AI impact on ABS/Securitization and what it does for you long term (no one really knows but develop a consensus), and see if you can enjoy doing it for the near term but if not you can work in a capital markets arm of a Fintech, Infra, Defensetech player and pivot into corporate.
Sorry this is just a ramble of consciousness, hopefully i made sense.
what roles in infra/ABS are you referring to?
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