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Bonus Season Is Upon Us
It's June 1st, kids, and that means it's crunch time. Only one month left to sacrifice blood, sweat, and tears in a mad dash for the top bucket. By all rights, analyst bonuses should be a lot better this year than the last two years. And here's more good news: conspicuous consumption is back, baby!...
Nuclear Twilight in Europe
It is becoming evident to many that the March nuclear catastrophe at Japan’s six reactor Daichi Fukushima complex has dealt a huge, possibly fatal, blow to the nuclear industry’s hopes of a revival. A year ago even global warming enthusiasts reluctantly embraced nuclear power as a carbon-free...
Nazi-era Technology Embraced by Republicans in U.S. Congress in the Name of National Energy “Security”
Twentieth-century American military history has two iconic dates - 7 December 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor and 6 June 1944, D-Day, when the liberation of Europe began. The subsequent vicious Allied fight from Normandy to Germany saw the Nazis largely fueled by a technology that is now being...
Question about Degrees for IB in London
This question may seem quite strange to the students from the UK / US, but as Europe signed that "bologna process" in 99, many students especially in Germany dont know what their degree is worth. If someone wants to work at an investment bank in Germany, he´ll need a master. so most IB guys in...
Deutsche Bank Discriminates Against Indian Rainmaker
It is March 10, 2011, and today I read that a German bank is discriminating against a top banker, a "rainmaker," because he is Indian. Anshu Jain is a 48 year old head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank and has generated hundreds of millions of Euros in fees for the bank since 1995. Anshu was...
'Tis the season to be German (who'd have thought!)
Here's a condensed review for Germany which may be of help to some of you. Germany -FX 1 year move (Dec 2009-Nov 2010) EUR/USD: -8% EUR/JPY: -16% EUR/CHF: -11% EUR/GBP: -6% Euro's fall against the majors may only benefit Germany and their exports. - Index 1 year move (Dec 2009-Nov 2010) DAX: +12.3%...
Russia-Germany Nord Stream Pipeline Under Way
SITUATION: Russia has succeeded in getting funding for the Nord Stream gas pipeline (formerly North European Gas Pipeline, NEGP), which will go under the Baltic Sea to Germany. It obtained environmental approvals from the littoral states concerned rather easily and earlier this year began to lay the...
Merkel Pats Self on Back, Opposition Pissed.
For those of us who are worried about the Greek bailout and generally rising levels of government debt, you no longer have to worry if you're German. What Angela Merkel has described as an "unprecedented feat" will save the nation 80B euro's or $96B. How will this be accomplished? "The proposed cuts...
So I have a little situation here...
Hi, So I read through a bunch of topics on this forum and haven't quite found anythink like my situation so I'll try to make it clear to you in the hope to get some constructive advice. I lived and graduated from highschool in Germany with average grades, then I did the mandatory military programm...
German M&A Professional
Hello everyone, I am a German native with a MBA and a MS in Finance from an U.S. university. Furthermore, I have a couple of years experience in M&A and I am sitting for the CFA exams. I am also in the process of getting a permanent working permission. I am looking for a job in the M&A industry and...
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