Goldman Sachs AIMS Private Equity
Anyone have any updated information about the group? Interested in hours / culture, especially as they compare to Investment Banking.
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My good friend from uni is in the group, and thought about trying to lateral in myself. Comp is essentially same as banking $110k/125k first and second year base; have heard they are on Jan bonus cycle so stubbed bonus of ~$30k for first years; ~$100k bonus for 2nd years. Hours seem to be some where around ~70 hours / week. Exits, this year and last, are good, several UMM/MF exits but also a good amount of analysts choosing to stay on.
Isnt AIMS a FoF platform? Heard it's hard to exit to direct private equity
Has FoF, direct investing (co-investment), GP stakes, and secondaries (single + multi asset)
Not on a January cycle anymore but the rest of this is accurate!
Great group... reasonable hours, comparable pay to IBD, and strong exits into PE.
I'm interested in applying to GS AIMS PE in the West Palm Beach office. Was wondering if the pay is less than Tier 1 cities. Would this group be a good place to start my career?
Ignore this thread. This is coming from someone who actually turned down AIMS in SLC. The pay is nowhere close to IBD with 0 bonus like IBD. It's middle office and you will not get any looks from PE. The starting salary for an analyst in SLC for AIMS was ~65k base. Do not take this job if you want to do banking/PE. At first I thought oh this might be cool but contacted one of my school Alumni who is MD in AM there and he said job is a hole 15 feet underground. Don't do it
Wow. Thank you for the insight! Will definitely stay clear of them, I was expecting the salary to be lower than the NYC staff, but not that low lol.
When did you receive this offer? I guess no way they are paying this low in NYC right?
Had a buddy do it in their SLC office. He made pretty good money (I think) in a low-cost-of-living area and had a good lifestyle from what it seemed. That being said, I remember him saying it wasn't very technical and didn't involve a lot of modeling. I also know he tried lateraling into both IB and more traditional PE and had a really hard time.
I'm assuming the pay is the same in the SLC office and the WPB office. So, it's more of a FoF instead of "real" PE?
Not fund of funds but secondaries and co investments
West Palm Beach is a New York led team, adjusted pay from tax is the same, I think SLC is less but I'm not sure
Any insight on the culture and comp out of the WPB office, Aso level
Decent exits, but not the top of the tier. Not on level as top GS/MS banking or PJT, Laz, Evr RX etc.
True, but better than lower-tier BB/EB and MM banks. But would argue work is more interesting than IB and your life is not completely miserable from the hours.
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