Here goes nothing, internship applications here I come!
Going into second year of uni, looking forward to the job hunt. Have spring week experience already at mid/lower tier BB in the UK, want to upgrade and go for MS/GS/JPM in corporate finance, either M&A or ECM (currently weighing the two up). Currently at a top target university, strong interest in quant, decent extra-curriculars but limited relevant work experience.
Will be looking to putting my CV up for review, and doing a lot of perusing of the interview sections within this website.
Questions:
1) Which "investment banking guide" is most worth purchasing? I currently have through my university:
Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking
Wall Street Women, Melissa S. Fisher
Starting your Career as a Wall Street Quant, Brett Jiu, Ph.D.
Vault Career Guide to Investment Management
Working in The City, Mike Poole
All you Need to Know About the City, Christopher Stoakes
financial modelling Package, Training the Street
Fundamentals of Financial Accounting & Analysis, Training the Street
Relative Valuation Self Study Book, Training the Street
Merger Modelling, Training the Street
Fundamentals of Corporate Valuation, Training the Street
How to Get an Equity Research Analyst Job, Gillian D.Elcock
Financial Calculus, Martin Baxter & Andrew Rennie
Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking
Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, John C. Hull
Vault Career Guide to Investment Management
investment banking interview Study Guide
Financial Markets and Institutions, Frederic S. Mishkin & Stanley G. Eakins
Getting an IBanking Internship, Erin Parker
and
Business of Investment Banking: A Comprehensive Overview (3rd Edition), Liaw, K. Thomas.
Securities Institute: Introduction to Banking : Liquidity Risk and Asset-Liability Management, Moorad Choudhry.
Wiley Finance: Financial Risk Management: A Practitioner’s Guide to Managing Market and Credit Risk (2nd Edition), Steve L. Allen.
Introduction to Private Equity, Cyril Demaria.
Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street, Jonathan A. Knee.
Bloomberg Financial: Janus Factor: Trend Follower’s Guide to Market Dialectics, Gary Edwin Anderson.
Introduction to Equity Derivatives: Theory and Practice (2nd Edition), Sebastien Bossu & Philippe Henrotte.
Taming the Beast: Wall Street’s Imperfect Answers to Making Money, Larry Light.
Is it worth purchasing anything else on top of this for going into corporate finance?
2) What's the best way of weighing up between M&A and ECM? Some IB let you apply to both by applying to just corporate finance, but I am struggling to come down either side of the divide
Will be uploading my CV for review in a bit. Hope to engage with everyone in discussion over the next few months so that I can secure an internship!
