Nomura/RBS/Macquarie IBD FT HK or graduate school?
Hi all,
I have a FT IBD offer to join a non-BB global firm, say Nomura/RBS/Macquarie, as an analyst for class of 2011. But I am afraid I will not get good deal experience or exit opportunities compared to BB. Another option is to apply for graduate school and go to MSF for one or two years, and then I may have better chance to join a BB then.
Should I take the offer and get into the industry first or go to graduate school and apply for BB later?
Any input would be greatly appreciated!
Go to the non-BB and lateral to a BB. From my understanding, that option is the easier route.
agree agree agree
i hope this post hammers home the above option congratulations
oh it would be good for that option if you had contacts, junior or senior-level, at the BBs
Go Nomura.
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Nomura is tops in Asia in M&A because they picked up the Lehman Brothers operation. In Europe, Japan, and Asia, Nomura in a way is a BB. RBS/Macquarie are not even close to Nomura in that realm. Get experience first and then think of grad school. If you want to stay in Asia and do PE there, you will have a lot of opportunities regardless of where you do your analyst stint.
+1 to joining the banks
as a side note, nomura is only top in Japan, they are a tier 2 bank everywhere else.
They lost a bunch of people when they acquired lehman ( which wasn't that good in the first place)
If you still want to go to BB, go to this non-BB first. Given mkt is pretty good, quite easy to lateral to a so-called BB (think BAML/DB/and so on) as they are hiring loads of analysts lately. Not so easy for really top-tier, but still way much easier than school route.
Go Macquarie if you want to do ECM(i.e IPO) business. They have many more deal flows recently compared to RBS/Nomura.
Nomura is tops in Asia. Second mightbecomes comment on Macq's ECM flow.
Nomura is not even a bb in europe. Japan only (yes, that is the country). And not Asia.
Nomuras on par with the BBs in Asia. numbers dont lie.
Nomura as of Q3 still ranked in #12
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