Linkedin - useful tool or waste of time?

If I may join in...

Based on his comments on pay, and a 2 + 20...

Assuming PB personally wants to clear 1mil a year and his fund is capable of returning 5-10%, I'd guesstimate AUM is in the range of £50-150mil.

As you say all speculation though. Apologies to PB if way off the mark.

I was ignoring it because you were venturing off topic. It's like you think the fact that you've helped some dog**** AIM companies go public means that you weren't completely wrong about a fundamental corporate finance problem.

You think the 5 or 6 examples you provided trumps my example set of "almost every listed company."

You saying "you don't know how things are done in practice" and then being unable to demonstrate that things are actually being done that way in practice (outside of a few E&P companies and even there you resorted to making up examples by listing companies which had not raised capital once) while still being dismissive of the theory behind the practice is pretty pathetic.

Finance research in capital markets is more positive than normative anyway, meaning that if you bothered to pick up a textbook you'd find a lot of the stuff more relevant than capital structure research for instance.

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Good, for stalking purposes.

I have edited this thread. Please play nicely and stop throwing the childish insults around.

try duedil, it isn't too hard to find this stuff out

Very disappointed you deleted my post seeing as we have recently being pushing the mod team to split out the IB forum from Consultancy, this was a great example frankly of how quickly IB chats can descend into nonsense arguing.

Poor form.

Oh I agree with that, It took me a while to remember that the "stalked" people could see "who had viewed their profile", "how many times"

So the assumption is that this wouldn't happen in a consultancy only forum? Why not?

Because I've been active in this (the IB and consultancy forum not just TSR) for 3 years, the same length of time i've been in the consultancy industry. I have never met anyone in consultancy with the ridiculous pseudo alpha male attitude that the people involved in IB chat in this form propagate. Also, I have never seen a consultancy post, in the past 3 years, descend into a point scoring sniping attack on someone else's opinion of how the industry works, as has happened in this thread.... And, frankly, numerous other posts within the past few months, let alone the past few years!

Fair point. A lot of potential IB'ers are just insecure guys who want to pursue the career because it represents some ideal of success (the amount of times American Psycho has been referenced on this forum speaks volumes), which they think allows them to compensate for perceived inadequacies. They'll eventually realise only a small subset of people actually care (golddiggers and elitists).

This is one of the reasons my A-Level tutor told me to avoid LSE (he was a Cambridge graduate) and I'm glad I took his advice.

Definitely something I've noticed in the Economics/Finance societies at my uni and it's extremely apparent on this forum. I know a few 'normal' guys working in banking and they say the exact same thing.