JPM Strategic Investments
Any insights on this group? Comps, exit opportunities, culture, exposure?
What is the day to day? What would you actually do?
Any color would be appreciated
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Extremely small team, mainly senior bankers and work is more as just a relationship function.
They mainly faciliate discussions between SWF / Family Offices / PE, so good exposure to speaking with these people, but in reality you don't get any execution experience. As a junior there most of your work is setting up calls and coordinating between various parties. Sector / LevFin / M&A teams will come in when it comes to execution so wouldn't expect it to be very good experience if considering exit opps, though WLB should be good.
Interesting as I know someone in SIG who was also hired out of MBB...
I'm confused; I thought SIG was a buyside group within JPM that does growth/minority investments? Are you confusing the group with something else?
You seem confused. Are you thinking of private capital markets?
I posted the original comment -- correct there is a PE group called Strategic Investments and there is also a IB group called Strategic InvestORS Group. I am referring to the Strategic Investors IB Group.
Best way to describe it would be... PE but not PE.
They make minority investments at or under 15% equity stake. There's not much of an investment thesis. Their deals are mainly "sourced" internally from within JPM. Perhaps one of the LOBs is leveraging a vendor for some type of tech transformation and it is so important that the executive team at JPMC decides they'd like to take a stake for the relationship / board seats / insight into strategy and product roadmaps, etc. components.
This'll make its way across the team's desk and they'll basically spin up a bunch of diligence, comps, cap table / ownership flows, etc. and see if they can make some type of reasonable case to invest in the company. Almost akin to the type and quality of an investment thesis of some *competent but nothing special* 30 year old that just started a fund with daddy's money.
I don't have insight into comp but people don't seem to leave too often. Recently one of the MDs left as he was asked to be part of the founding team of a fund. You definitely build a good amount of relationships and they maintain rapport with many of the Tech / FinTech focused funds outs there. Few people I've spoken to find the work mildly interesting but overly bureaucratic (doing work for the sake of showing that you did work). They're not really running from their roles but would jump if something mildly interesting was offered to them.
Can you pls pm me? Can’t seem to pm you here. Would love more insights thank you.
Can you post your question here? Small world and would much prefer to stay anonymous, don't think you can do that over PM.
Candidly I didn't spend time on that team or anything so not sure how detailed I can get (and if I do it'll be at least partially speculative) but happy to provide one person's perspective.
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