Macquarie MIRA PE or GS/JPM/MS?
Received offers (from one of the three BBs) for NY offices for summer 2020, as well as Macquarie. At a top target school - does anyone have advice? I'm concerned with GS IB having a low return offer rate, and JPM IB and MS IB having a bad group placement. MIRA sounds like a great opportunity to go straight into PE, but I do not know a lot about its reputation. I need to make a decision soon and would appreciate input.
Take MIRA if you're interested in Infra PE and know that's what you want to do. It's the best infra fund in the world, the hours are much much better than any banking offer, pay is street or above street, return offer is pretty much guaranteed, and its a growing fund that focuses on retaining its analysts which means very little churning and structured promotions. If your not sure that Infra PE is what you want to do, take the other offer. You have lots of optionality coming from JP/MS/GS even if you don't get return offer.