Moving from a PE firm to a principal investments buyouts group at an investment bank

Has anyone considered moving from buyside to a buyside team housed under an investment bank?  Currently finishing up a pre-MBA program and I have the option to move from a private markets platform that runs 25bn+ to a sector specific buyouts (principal investments) team running client money at a bank.   

Has anyone considered this?

Curious what expectations would be like to move back to a financial sponsor in the future / what long-term comp expectations would be at a role like this. 

For reference this is not GS, and there are a few others with similar backgrounds in the group. 

 

This sounds like MSIM. You didn’t give enough of a background about yourself or your interests for good advice to be given. What are your long term goals? How much do you value WLB? What pay are you okay with? 

 

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