Almost all analysts leave IB after their analyst years, usually to PE or something else. Blair, Baird and Lincoln are know for promoting a2a, but I'm curious what percentage actually does this vs going on to pe. Is it 10%, 30%, >50%?
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I’d presume the analyst retention rate is north of 50% at Blair seeing as the firm has elected to pivot away from graduate level recruiting moving forward. Someone feel free to correct me should you work at Blair.
Can anyone who works at Blair comment
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Can only confirm part of this. Interviewed with Blair and amongst my conversation was told that the reason for killing the MBA programme was that Associates are more expensive, have less M&A experience and despite joining afresh end up being higher in the chain than analysts who by the end of their first year have done 1-2 end to end deals.
I mean, this is pretty obvious to every other IB out there that also recruits MBA associates.
They must have pretty high A2A retention and a robust lateral hiring program, thus not needing to hire directly out of an MBA program for their Associate-level talent.
Did they mention analyst retention % at all
How about Baird/Lincoln
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