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How to enhance your Investment Banking applications through sector selection Oct 25, 2023

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Are you eyeing a future in investment banking, but puzzled about which sector to choose?

Join us in this podcast episode as Anthony Cheung and Silvia Magni guide you through the maze of sector selection and explain its impact on your Investment Banking application.

Get insights on:

Understanding the diverse sector teams

Exploring the nuances of tech, natural resources, and financial sectors

The variations among valuation models

Strategies to showcase your enthusiasm

A peek into the daily life and the prospective career paths in the industry

Make sector selection work to your advantage in your IBD applications and set yourself apart from the competition!

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Investment Bank Application Tips from a J.P. Morgan IBD Summer Analyst Oct 23, 2023

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A special podcast episode to help everyone who is currently in the midst of applications!

I'm joined by Gauri Duhan, a final-year PPE student at LSE who interned at J.P. Morgan this summer and secured a return offer to join their UK M&A team in the investment banking division.

In this conversation, we cover:

How to handle applications (quality vs quantity)

Tackling online tests (numerical)

Advice for HireVue interviews

Technical and behavioural interviews (preparation & execution)

Dealing with pressure at an assessment centre

Here is the list of resources mentioned by Gauri:

https://www.jobtestprep.co.uk/

https://www.assessmentday.co.uk/

https://www.graduatesfirst.com/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimir-mental-math-lite/id416770677

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MM129: Unlocking Success: The ONE Essential Characteristic for Traders, Graduates, and Business Owners Oct 20, 2023

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This week we delve deep into the single, most essential trait that has proven vital across diverse fields - be it trade, academics, internships, or entrepreneurship.

It's the one characteristic that unites successful traders, top-achieving graduates, and savvy business owners.

What is it? You'll need to listen to find out!

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The Deal Room: Goldman's profit tanks, Man U slumps & Birkenflops! Oct 18, 2023

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Goldman Sachs reported a 36% drop in third-quarter profits, the bank’s eighth straight quarter of falling earnings BUT eked out a year-on-year increase in investment banking revenues for the first time in almost two years.

Should DJ Sol be hanging up more than his decks? Or is this an effective pivot from the US investment bank which is now over the worst?

Meanwhile, shares in Manchester United slumped after the Qatari group withdrew from their 100% bid for the football club and we review what Birken'flop' means for the IPO market going forward.

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MM128: Everything you need to know about J.P. Morgan, BlackRock, Citi and Wells Fargo's earnings! Oct 13, 2023

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Everything you need to know about today's earnings from J.P. Morgan, BlackRock, Citi and Wells Fargo

On The Trading Floor podcast series this week we unpack the first of the major investment banks to report Q3 earnings.

If you're in the process of applying to these firms, don't miss out on this episode. A "must-listen" to significantly enhance your applications!

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The Deal Room: Citi strikes a $3.6bn deal with HSBC & ExxonMobil looks to acquire Pioneer for $56bn Oct 11, 2023

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In The Deal Room this week the team discuss:

Citi's decision to sell its $3.6bn China consumer wealth portfolio to HSBC. Find out the strategy behind the deal and what might come next for the UK-listed bank.

ExxonMobil is embarking on one of the biggest M&A deals of the year. The acquisition represents the first big move of an oil Supermajor in the Permian Basin, the USA’s largest oil-producing region.

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MM127: Why surging yields may break the financial system! Oct 06, 2023

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World's biggest bond market hits a wave of selling

Global bonds at the mercy of Treasuries in an echo of 2020 debt sell-off

Treasury-bond collapse ranks among the worst crashes in history

Bloomberg has reported losses on Treasury bonds with maturities of 10 years or more had notched 46% since March 2020, while the 30-year bond had plunged 53%.

Those losses are nearly in line with stock-market losses seen during the worst crashes of recent history — when equities slumped 49% after the dot-com bubble burst and 57% in the aftermath of 2008.

In this podcast episode, we attempt to step out of the hysteria, re-examine what caused this move and look at the effects it may have on US/European banks, debt markets, pension funds, and the private equity community.

If you have an interview or an assessment centre coming up then you MUST listen to this episode!

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The Deal Room: Bill Ackman on a potential deal with Elon Musk's X & Birkenstock's $10bn IPO Oct 04, 2023

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Welcome back to the Deal Room on the AmplifyME podcast where this week our Director of Corporate Finance Stephen Barnett unpacks three themes in focus this week:

Bill Ackman the famous activist investor has said that he would consider taking Elon Musk's 'X' public. You've heard of a SPAC but what's a SPARC?!

The IPO run continues with Birkenstock the German footwear maker about to fetch a valuation of $10.1bn

With M&A deals starting to liven up, we take a look at what dealmakers need to do to avoid missing out on the target of $3 trillion in deal volume for the first time since 2013

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MM126: Could surging oil prices lead to an economic collapse? Sep 29, 2023

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AmplifyME co-founder Piers Curran returns to the show to deconstruct what exactly is going on in the oil market and the potential impact it could have on the global economy.

This is a great episode to really connect the dots and better understand how financial markets and the economy operate.

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The Deal Room: Will Private Equity be at the centre of the next financial crisis? Sep 27, 2023

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Private equity firms have been increasingly adding another layer of debt to their complex borrowing arrangements, raising concern among some investors about potential risks to the wider industry and the financial system.

In this episode, Director of Corporate Finance Stephen Barnett explains how the PE business model works, how it's impacted by rising interest rates, and what the potential dangers are to the wider system.

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