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Shayanne Gal/Business Insider Need a new page-turner? We’ve got you covered. We polled our Rising Stars of Wall Street for the books they swear by for wisdom, business strategy and career inspiration. Here are 10 of the recommendations that we received. Subscribe here to read our full list of the Rising Stars of Wall Street […]
Lucas Jackson/Reuters Wall Streeters are getting their bonuses soon. The director of the Digital Currency Group predicts a bitcoin “buying frenzy” when the bonuses hit. Many market observers expect the crypto markets will have sharp spikes up and down this year compared to 2017. A few weeks ago the bitcoin traded at more than […]
Business Insider Financial-services professionals are known to have demanding work schedules, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t setting aside time to crack open a few books. We recently reached out to our contacts on Wall Street to find out what folks would recommend as must-reads just ahead of the holiday season. Surprisingly, most books recommended […]
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts The robots are coming for our jobs, and Wall Street is getting a little nervous. A recent survey of 1,000 financial professionals conducted by LinkedIn, the networking site, found that 25% of Wall Streeters are worried their job could be jeopardized by automation. Retail bankers are the most fearful with a third of respondents […]
Russell Reynolds Associates This chart should concern Wall Street. A survey of 300 finance professionals with six to 10 years of post-MBA experience by the Toigo Foundation and Russell Reynolds Associates, a New York-based executive-search firm, found 50% of finance employees want to leave their job in the next one to three years. And 20% are considering leaving […]
The stock research business is being upended. The trigger is the introduction of European regulations that call on brokers to distinguish between charges for executing trades, and providing investment research. That’s a big change. Stock research has historically been provided by so-called “sell side” banks without an explicit fee. The point is that research analysts are supposed […]
RBCCM Breaking into the Wall Street world is no easy feat. It’s especially difficult for young people and students with non-traditional backgrounds and little finance experience. Michael Ventura was once one of those students. He studied political science while he was an undergraduate student at Colgate University in New York. He is now a director […]
Sarah Jacobs The D10 is an intense competition that pushes its athletic contestants to their ultimate physical limits. It takes place in five cities across the US, and while the New York City D10 isn’t until June, training for the competition — a 400-meter run, football throw, pull-ups, 40-yard dash, dips, 500-meter row, vertical jump, 20-yard […]
DogPound The head of the New York Stock Exchange, a famous actor, and a Victoria’s Secret model walk into a gym. That may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but it’s not. It’s The Dogpound, an exclusive Manhattan gym that caters to New York’s crème de la crème. The gym opened up in March of […]
