IVSC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

He leads a team of quants, focusing on the valuations of complex securities and instruments issued by start-up companies to venture capital and private equity investors. He has three decades of experience in capital markets, corporate finance, and valuations.

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Mckinsey and Company

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Investing in start-ups can help you tap external innovation, as long as you avoid the pitfalls.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

Continuing an annual ritual of long standing, ahead of starting my spring teaching at NYU starting in a couple of weeks, I would like to invite you, if you are interested, to come along for the ride. In 1984, I moved on to the University of California at Berkeley, as a visiting lecturer, teaching anything that needed to be taught.

Corporate Finance 145

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With investment banking internship recruiting starting earlier and earlier, you also need to win pre-banking internships earlier. Yes, a corporate finance or wealth management internship might look worse on your resume/CV, but larger companies are a much better bet if you need the money. Which VC Firms Offer Internships?

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Mckinsey and Company

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two leaders within the world’s third-largest start-up ecosystem discuss how the tiny Middle Eastern country grows and supports a culture of innovation.

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Viking Mergers

MAY 9, 2023

Reed grew up on a farm in rural Tennessee, where his father was a farmer and a lawyer. He says it was a good way to grow up, but anxious to experience what life might offer outside of a small country town, Reed left to study business at the University of Tennessee. To work for myself, get out of Corporate America, and start a business.

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 22, 2025

So, for example, quarterly financial models are more common in equity research, as are detailed bottoms-up models used in initiating coverage reports. Equity research recruiting tends to be less structured, though the bulge bracket banks and elite boutiques still run traditional processes that start over a year before summer internships.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. The class starts with a question of what the end game should be for a business (profitability, value, social good?)

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

After all those grueling years of education, a CPA might well hold their paycheck up to those of other professions and think, “Was it worth it?” Bokhari’s observations, they agreed, highlight a serious issue in the corporate finance world: making numbers cool again. What Keeps CFOs Up At Night Bokhari isn’t alone.

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Misfits – Many finance roles do not fit into either category; the classic examples are corporate finance and corporate development at normal companies. they don’t profit from investing in stocks and betting that prices will go up or down). see below). from a successful investment). (But

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Global Finance

JANUARY 2, 2025

For example, as soon as a merger or acquisition announcement is made, the employees of the target company start leaving. Look at the competition who are creeping up on you, and then, relatively early, make a decision and buy. So, especially the most talented employees dont want to wait until this happens to them. Look ahead!

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Brian DeChesare

APRIL 20, 2022

But IB summer internship recruiting has become far more competitive, everything starts earlier, and full-time recruiting for non-interns is close to “endangered species” status. is more than a year before the internship start date, but it’s later in the U.K. Also, even within one level, some large banks might start very early (e.g.,

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The commonality is that they can be useful side doors into the finance industry, especially if you got started late , earned lower grades , or did not complete enough internships : What is a “Credit Analyst”? Unfortunately, they’re all somewhat different – despite the similar names. And What Do They Do?

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 24, 2024

Before I begin, I do need to provide our standard disclaimer: The views we express today are provided in our official capacities in the Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance but do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission, the Commissioners, or any other members of the staff. 2009, available at [link]. [13]

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At the start of every semester for as long as I can remember, I have invited people to sit in informally on my classes at NYU or take the shorter online versions on my website. If you have a bigger budget, I would try to emulate Professor Andrew Lo , who described his astounding set up for teaching last year.)

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Definitions: What is “Finance,” and What is a “Good Career”? And yes, it’s difficult to advance, but the rapid growth in compensation as you move up more than offsets that difficulty. The need for a sequence of internships/jobs , which heavily penalizes students who start late and professionals who want to change careers.

Finance 119

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 19, 2024

I noticed the other day that we had articles about how to start a private equity firm and how to start a hedge fund but nothing on venture capital. But just like superhero movies, career advice works best when it’s a trilogy – so we’ll complete this trilogy with how to start a venture capital firm.

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Fox Corporate Finance

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Tech Tour NRW Green Programme is designed to help start-ups based in North Rhine -Westphalia region developing tech solutions in the broad. Read more The post FCF at the Tech Tour NRW Green 2023 in Dusseldorf on 19 September, 2023 appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH.

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Fox Corporate Finance

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Tech Tour NRW Green Programme is designed to help start-ups based in North Rhine -Westphalia region developing tech solutions in the broad. Read more The post FCF at the Tech Tour NRW Green 2023 in Dusseldorf on 19 September, 2023 appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH.

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

AWSs Jelena Joffe Weil discusses Amazons venture innovation initiative and the benefits of collaborative innovation to both large enterprises and start-ups.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this post, I will start with a working definition of riskt that we can get some degree of agreement about, and then look at multiple measures of risk, both at the company and country level. In corporate finance, this takes the form of a hurdle rate , a minimum acceptable return on an investment, for it to be funded.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

The rise in rates transmitted to corporate bond market rates, with a concurrent rise in default spreads exacerbating the damage to investors. As a result of these rate changes, the term structure which started the year as upward sloping, ended the year downward sloping, giving rise to the usual talk of an imminent recession.

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

What it’s like to make the leap from ‘big food’ to a start-up, how market segmentation is evolving, and what the future of retail in an e-commerce world looks like.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The Chipotle CEO is ending his time at the Mexican grill chain and plans to start as top boss at Starbucks on September 9. The mere mention that Niccol was joining the C-suite spiked the coffee company’s market cap up by $27 billion (by contrast, Chipotle’s shares plummeted 25%). Brian Niccol is going from burritos to baristas.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

As part of that obsession, since September 2008, I have estimated an equity risk premium for the S&P 500 at the start of each month, and not only used that premium, when valuing companies during that month, but shared my estimate on my webpage and on social media.

Risk Premium 98

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Brian DeChesare

MARCH 8, 2023

If you want to work in the most cyclical role in the finance industry, it’s hard to beat commodity hedge funds. But a few related areas, such as commodity desks at banks, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), and physical commodity trading shops could put up a good fight for that “most cyclical” title. per bushel.

Finance 119

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Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For example, internship recruiting starts very early for undergrads in the U.S. , but I’ll start with the short version: Table Of Contents Why Investment Banking: The Short Version “Why Investment Banking?” should also mention these reasons, but the interviewer could always follow up and ask you to expand on them.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 15, 2022

The debate about the front office, middle office, and back office in the finance industry is one of the sillier and more exhausting ones. If you look online, you’ll find many threads, articles, and blog posts saying that back office (BO) and middle office (MO) jobs are “the worst” and that if you end up there, your career is over.

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Although there are some advantages to IB in Canada, it’s almost always better to start a finance career in the U.S. You could also argue that finance careers there beat most other careers in Canada , especially as a recent graduate. The main differences are: Timing: While the IB recruiting timeline has moved up in both the U.S.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Tanganelli started her career at UBS, then moved to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), where she held various roles, primarily in Business Development and M&A. Tanganelli: Besides my core, day-to-day finance-related activities, I spend most of my energy and time on people and processes.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

I also start thinking about my passion, which is teaching, the spring semester to come, and the classes that I will be teaching, repeating a process that I have gone through every year since 1984, my first year as a teacher. Face up to uncertainty, rather than avoid or deny it : Uncertainty is a feature of investing/ business, not a bug.

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 11, 2022

If you have more than 2 – 3 years of full-time work experience after university , it will be very difficult to get in at the Analyst level (estimated age cut-off of 25 , but it may be more like 27 – 28 depending on when you started the degree). but not different ages. You’ll probably need a top MBA at this stage.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 28, 2024

Let’s start with some quick definitions and the short version of why a delayed graduation is rarely a good idea: Table Of Contents The TL;DR of Why “Delay Your Graduation” Rarely Works Why Delay Your Graduation? You started too late , which limited your networking and resulted in only ~2 first-round interviews.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 6, 2024

While the NFL is opening up to private equity investment, there are stringent rules in the NBA and the NHL around owning minority stakes. Barlow: To quote PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, when you’re up against a nation-state to fund a project, you have to make strong decisions around how you operate the business.

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 31, 2023

This review will be spoiler-free beyond the pilot episode because I hate when people ruin shows for me: Succession Review: The Show Explained If you haven’t seen it or heard anything about it, Succession could be described as “ Game of Thrones meets corporate America.” Why did Roman choke up at the last minute?

Finance 105

Finance Start-ups Corporate Finance Mergers & Acquisitions 105

Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But let’s start with my favorite topic: “ranking” banks, schools, and maybe a TV series or three. will move off the “up-and-coming elite boutique” list as it merges with CS/FB. The show was a bit slow in the early seasons, but it picked up over time, and the last few seasons are just as good as Breaking Bad. Klein & Co.

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Benzinga

MAY 2, 2024

His experiences run the gamut from initial start-ups to Fortune 100 Companies. Mr. Hisey began his career at Ernst & Young, considered one of the Big Four accounting firms globally, as a. Full story available on Benzinga.com

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