Best Investment Bank for Each Decade
Hi guys,
After reading a little bit about historic IB firms such as DLJ, First Boston etc., I was just wondering whether we could get a few comments on which IBs dominated specific decades. I know that is probably quite irrelevant for recruiting atm but should be a fun touchpoint for interpreting IB experience of previous generations and how each current bank is historically positioned.
I think we can all agree that since the crisis it has been between GS, MS and JPM.
1660's: Dutch West India for s&t
LMAO
1490's : Spanish conquistadors for M&A of the "new world" aka West Indian markets
1933-1945: NSDAP, Sell-Side M&A Specialist
1200s - Mongol Empire. Undisputed leader in S&T and trade finance.
More like physical trading though - just sayin'
real assets *
The most valuable company of all time adjusted for inflation at $7.9T
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-valuable-companies-all-time/
Post- financial crisis: GS, MS, and Tobin & Co.
Tobin and Northwestern Mutual ftw!
Pre Crisis ML Lehman GS MS Citi Post Cowen Harris Williams TripleTree Loop Capital
I'm familiar with TripleTree, but can you elaborate on why it was included? Thought that they have experienced recent growth
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It's a meme TT is shit lol
Barings Bank, Rothchilds, Solomon brothers. Some of the ones that used to be significant but no longer around/not what it used to be.
Does this seem fair:
60s: Morgan Stanley
70s: Salomon Brothers
80s: Merrill Lynch
90s: Goldman Sachs
00s: GS/JPM
10s: JPM
would say drexel for the 80's
CSFB deserves a nod for the late 90s- early 2000s (mostly for TMT). Frank Quattrone and his team absolutely dominated the tech space for that period from what I hear.
agreed, I think GS then was mostly an S&T Powerhouse and made a killing in their IPO then. Would say that they came on top of the 00's as they did fine in the crisis.
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