Firms with most aura

Is this a joke?

PWP/Gugg

best path is BOA associate

public ivy is crazy LMAO

its like how WashU/ Vanderbilt kids say they are the Harvard of the midwest 

ps: no girl will look you differently because you work at BX/ GS

edit: I went to washu...

You did not just say "Target High School." 

Women’s jaws will never drop at the name of a firm, unless you’re talking about undergrad women looking for an internship. To the young guys on here, in terms of what you can control, the only things that make women’s jaws drop:

• Having enough money to do what you (and by extension she) want for the most part  
• Having enough flexibility to use that money for top 10% interesting experiences and to maintain yourself in top 10% condition
• Being lean and ripped (sub 10% body fat)
• Being strong and athletic (active lifestyle)
• Healthy looking skin and hair and teeth goes an incredibly long way
• Well dressed / fashionable / well groomed
• Being interesting and fun or funny or safe (hobbies, travel, good friends, skills)

• The confident and ambitious presence that comes as a result of having put forth the effort to achieve all of the above
   

  Money from IB is just a tool (a very powerful tool) that makes it easier to achieve the rest of the things, but it alone isn’t enough to impress anybody in my experience. First couple years I was working 24/7 despite making money women just didn’t care. It wasn’t until I started spending that money to build a compelling appearance and lifestyle that women started turning heads. Guys need to understand women can’t see your savings and investments and job title on your forehead. 

  Earning and saving and investing are incredibly important, they just aren’t super compelling to most women alone, same with job titles and such.

Lmfaoo you're basically asking for IU Kelley to get shit on with something like this. Why do students from there vehemently think they're a respected school 

When you’re at as prestigious a school as IU Kelley (PBUI), you must exercise extreme prudence when choosing where to begin your ascent to MOTU status. If you’re not careful you’ll downgrade and tarnish your elite reputation. Fortunately I can think of at least once place that approaches the immense prestige of those hallowed halls… pays $140K base btw.

So we know you're a senior at Trinity as no one would say "Exeter, Andover, Trinity" if they went to the first two and you're headed to IU Kelley since no one would refer to that as a "public ivy."

Those dings to your resume nonwithstanding, think you could pull Jefferies.

If you got into IU kelley from those kind of private schools, I feel sorry for your parents spending 70K a year

"GS/jefferies" just say your dads an MD at the latter bro...

Chicks know fuckall about which firms are best

RBC by far has the most aura. Chicks quiver when you say you work for the ROYAL Bank of Canada. Thats some King shit

Females jaws don’t drop if you work, especially slaving away working like a bitch. They only drop when you’re so fucking loaded that you don’t have to work. At least the hot trophy wifes ones anyways. 

Definitely has to be RBC for you

Females' jaws don't drop when you call em females, so just be careful. You don't wanna be associated with Andrew Tate

Tell your dad congrats on Jefferies

IU Kelley isn't a public ivy lol

My own experience is people who are sophisticated / in the industry will be most impressed if you are in an analyst seat at Pershing / TCI / Elliott / Viking / Coatue. I would add Tiger Global to this list but they've suffered a lot the last few years and the jury is still out as to whether they have real ability as investors or were simply beneficiaries of the rising tide of tech in a zero rate environment during the 2010-2020 decade. 

Apollo used to be very prestigious, but I think post Leon Black, the firm is known as a sweat shop to be avoided. KKR / Blackstone still deserve a ton of credibility and are very hard to break into, but don't elicit the same sense of respect that the names I mentioned do. There are also some single manager funds that aren't on the same level but still run by sharp people who are respected (e.g., Third Point, Baupost, Cevian in Europe, Glenview, D1, non-exhaustive list).

Above said, it sounds like what you are asking about is 'lay prestige' or name recognition at a bar where the opposite gender might be impressed. The answer to that has been and will continue to be Goldman, for better or worse. People will recognize Morgan Stanley or JPM the same way they recognize Yale and Stanford when you mentioned where you went to school, but GS is the Harvard of finance when viewed through lens of brand / aura. As to whether GS deserves that rep today given it's a much different place with less capable people on average than they used to have is another question.

Outside of a handful of very senior partners at the firm (e.g. two specific partners from pre-IPO era, Waldron who is by all accounts a super talent, some others), GS loses its best advisory/trading/investing talent to the buy-side and F500s where people have way more professional and financial upside. Junior talent is sometimes laughably bad, particularly at analyst-VP level where DEI was big factor (sorry if not PC, just speaking from experience). Wasn't always the case and it is sad to see how much the firm has diminished, but it does still maintain the prestige / perception of competence among people who don't know any better, if not the reality.

PS - Jeff should not be mentioned in the same breath as any of the above firms. They have been on a tear in M&A league tables lately but most people that I know in finance do not think of it as being anywhere near as relevant as GS and the culture is beyond terrible.

Icl ts pmo 

CVP, PJT, PWP