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Not many people understand valuation. So if the experience will lend itself to an opportunity to learn corporate finance and real-world valuation where you can speak intelligently about multiples, discount rates, betas etc. then SRR will be better, despite the name brand that is JPM. NYC and JPM aren't going anywhere. Anyone with half a brain will understand that you picked up some valuable tools at SRR.
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Your investment banking prospects are highly dependent on the recruiting capabilities on campus. What school do you go to?
SRR, no question, people lateral from valuations to IB with much greater ease than BO.
Agree with everyone above (also the OCR comment; how's your school? why couldn't you get an IB SA right away?). Valuation at SRR would be a better SA experience.
I go to a target school, but I chose not to do a business degree because of how much time it would take - I would have had to stay an extra two years. I had investment banking interviews for Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, Sagent Advisors, etc. A couple of them resulted in Super Days, but I wasn't able to close when it was all said and done. I think the competition was tough and people had more of a finance background than I did. Definitely not a problem with being likeable, but when you are going up against people with the brand name business school as well as wealth management and other finance internships, it can be hard to beat them. I was considering the JP Morgan internship because JP Morgan is brand name and located in NY while SRR is up and coming and in Michigan.
Offers normally come along in January. I am surprised you haven't had to accept one or the other offer by now, given the normal hiring cycle.
True, but the recruiting for these two specific positions just occurred and I actually have a couple weeks' time to make the decision.
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