Convertible Bonds Group in ECM - What Is It and Exits?
Current summer analyst at a BB looking at different groups and had this group in Equity Capital Markets pitched to be. It looks like they handle convertible bonds and a variety of other equity linked or more complex transactions. Different than one of the more typical coverage groups in ECM or DCM to my understanding.
Does anyone know if a group like this has good exit opportunities or marketable skills compared to some of the other groups in capital markets? What does a banking junior in the convertible bonds group go on to do later in their career usually?
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Plenty of information available online on these groups.
Indeed, they take care of converts/exchangable bonds, and sometimes depending of the bank Strategic Equity products (swaps, collar etc).
It's closer to the market than classical ecm but also less deal oriented of you see what I mean. The work is way more interesting than in DCM and can actually become quite maths heavy on the Strategic Equity side, but it's even more niche that classic Capital Markets.
Bump - I believe some banks segement it into groups such as capital solutions or private capital markets. Interesting to hear if anyone has any more info on a group like this
Bump - anyone know what exits look like for this group?
bump - hrs per week?
A convertible bond group in a BB bank is a great group where nobody from DCM can walk through the cost of capital math (incl. capped calls / bond hedge & warrants), so they ask somebody from ECM who also can't walk anyone through the math. Finally, after nobody from coverage wants to explain the math and the funny looking hockey stick chart on page 35 and why you should do a convert instead, you'll say some stuff that a grand total of 0 person on the call understand (including your own MD).
Anyways 10 / 10 experience would do once again.
Exits: There's not enough people who've followed the same story and experience, so instead of worrying about exits realize that you do in fact have free will and you can in fact do anything, and that your paths in life has zero correlation to some rando tier list on WSO
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you nailed it. No one besides the one intelligent analyst and the sole MD really understands the product. Anecdotally, exits are allegedly better than ECM of course given the more technical nature of the product. I imagine you could use the skillset for some of the buyside firms that do more esoteric investments across the cap structure (Sixth Street type etc.)
esoteric as in like abs type credit products? or opportunistic credit investing
Does anyone know if these groups give you the skillset to work in a hybrid value, structured equity, or capital solutions group at a PE firm?
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