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The 50 most prestigious firms |
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thats an interesting list |
| Date Posted: |
08/13/2006 |
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yes, you are off-base. GSAM is OK. merrill is retail-oriented and has a sub-par reputation that should be improved because they were acquired by blackrock (not the other way around).
prestigious buy side firms: PIMCO, Wellington, BlackRock, GMO, BGI, AQR, and many other smaller shops. do your research... |
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Interesting, and thank you for your help. Two questions, however.
1) Are prestige and salary in correlation? I've read on this board that even at the best places (BGI and Blackrock, in particular) people still complain a lot about the salaries. Thus, my queston is, even though you talk about how the bulge brackets aren't best known for IM, would you say that the salaries that are seen there are lower than at the prestigious firms you mentioned? (For example, I question this because I know someone who is very high-up at Prudential who says that research positions for one of their IM groups for just graduated mba's are 300k).
2) If I'm not positive that IM is what I want to do, wouldn't it be a mistake to pigeonhole myself at one of these firms that you mentioned above, in which there is basically one line of work and difficult to move out of?
Thanks again.
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