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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

Investment banking forms part of the financial services industry involved in the underwriting, distribution, and trading of securities. What Investment Bankers Do There are several key roles within investment banking, including corporate finance, sales and trading, and research.

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. For alternative asset managers such as hedge funds, their cash flows may be cut by more than half as profits fall and they collect a smaller fee from their profit participation agreements.

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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

Corporate development. Corporate Development. While some companies would group corporate development and corporate strategy together a lot of them have it as separate teams. discounted cash flow (DCF)) and to check if the M&A between two companies would result in an accretive or dilutive situation.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

And developers are pulling back, furloughing workers and delaying new projects. A national survey released in March by the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China, found that households across the country had 66 percent of their assets in their homes, a figure that rises to 84 percent in Beijing.

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The 5 Growing Pains of Service-Based Businesses in 2023 (and how to overcome them)

Asamby Consulting

Work with contractors To get over that initial cash-flow issue, it can make sense to rely on contractors instead of employees. Build some cash reserves If you intend to grow your service-based business by bringing on employees, you'll need some runway for that. It's chasing your own tail.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business

In the past, a community bank would have a relationship with the businesses on Main Street, and when it came time for a loan, there would be a wealth of informal information to augment the loan application. And they are allowing new sources of capital such as peer-to-peer lending to replace traditional bank capital.