Future bankers- what division and why?

By money I meant the money I earn, and by competition I meant competing with other peeps in the convertible offerings department to be the best damn jordan belfort in all the land.

Lol, ok bro. If your idea of ECM is jordan belfort you've got a lot of waking up to do..

Lmao it was a joke?

Well, I just find it so rewarding to explain concepts and processes and see someone progress and improve. I'm lucky to have had some amazing, enthusiastic, inspiring teachers over the years who have gone above and beyond to ensure that students succeed and that's really inspired me. I've done a lot of teaching-related stuff at school (mentoring lower school students, teaching primary school kids to read, tutoring, maths help clubs) and it's been really rewarding to see that I can be the difference between someone failing and passing a test and, more importantly, gaining knowledge of the subject (specifically, I want to teach maths).

Also, teaching and finance have a lot more in common than you might think- both involve working at high pressures with high expectations and high responsibility, and both require you to become an expert in your specific product and explain concepts to clients/students. Plus, once I've saved up enough from my finance job I can be a teacher without moaning about the awful salaries.

Will do! MORSE does seem like a really varied, interesting course although I heard that it's really competitive and hard to get into. But the opportunities with the degree are truly amazing!

Oh I'm completely aware of the links between the two and also completely appreciate the opportunity to help improve other people in their studies - I mostly teach maths but also Econ, French and a few other subjects and it's definitely a great feeling to see see someone go from fail to pass and have an impact in someone's life.
However tutoring one on one is radically different to teaching a whole class, where there'll be always be some bad apples pupil-wise, actual schedule and less flexibility in your teaching approach, etc. which I fear can get quite frustrating especially over the years. But to be fair, doing so after 10-20 years in banking could prove be to a nice change

What do you guys want to do after IB?

Where would everyone ideally move to from their chosen department?

dcm.. originally that was my division but exposure & senior management convincing led me to accept an offer elsewhere

Pretty interesting change. Can I ask what you were reading at uni?

Thought it would be interesting to see what division (IBD, Sales, Trading, Research, Investment Management, etc...) everyone here wants to work in and their reasons and whether there's a connection between degree subject and division.

University and degree:
Division I want to apply/have applied to:
Reason(s):
How long I want to stay in banking:


I am assuming the majority here want to go for front office roles but feel free to post even if you want to work in a different function!

(If you want to be really specific maybe do the "subdivision" as well- e.g. in IBD there's M&A, ECM, DCM, coverage groups and in S&T there's equities and FICC)

IBD, until I retire from GS as a partner aged 45