CS adopting Jeffries-style bonus clawbacks?

Seen on efinancialcareers that CS will be clawing back cash bonuses if people opt into them, along with the (probably true) claim that CS bonuses will definitely be bad this year due to “2021 events”. Clawbacks may not affect juniors though.

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There are several Bloomberg articles on this, and those clawbacks will only effect Directors and above. AN, ASO and VPs should be not affected. At my alma matter (target for CS) this years Summer ASO class is a little bit of a bloodbath as a lot of MBAs are passing on CS to go to other BB banks. So, I would hope that CS doesn't screw themselves even more with Citi type of Bonuses...  

 
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Oh wow. At CBS we are seeing the same. Many ppl indeed passed on the offer and turned to other banks/EB instead. Think the few offers being accepted are from FSG or Tech. The weaker coverage groups are being passed.

For those who received the offers however, they would still take CS over DB/UBS and maybe other lower tier middle market/EB.

This is what I saw my class is deciding the offer (not league table but just CBS MBA deciding the tiers).

Tier 1: Centerview (arguably haven’t seen anyone turned down the offer); Evercore (some int’l students would turn down Evercore for GS due to reputation in home country); GS (also group dependent but have seen ppl passed on the cross market group for lower tier EB/BB).

Tier 2: PJT, MS, JPM

Tier 3: Moelis, Lazard, PWP, BofA, Citi, Barclays, CS

Tier 4: Guggenheim, Houlihan, Greenhill, Rothschild, Jefferies, RBC, WF

Tier 5: William Blair, Baird, Lincoln, Harris, DB, UBS

Tier 6: FT Partners, Cain Brothers, Miller Buckfire, Stifel, TAP

Think tier 5/6 are very subjective as they are speciality shops or focus on middle market.

And again, this is purely a perception thing that I learned from talking to other MBA students - dealflow / culture / exits all blended.

 

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