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1. Investment Banking
Culture

2. Investment Bankers
Raising Capital & Security
Underwriting
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sales , Trading & Equity
Research
Front office & Back office
What do we do?

3. Working hours of analyst
80 – 100
hours per
week
AM
No work
entire
week

4. Working hours gets better with time?
Non – divisible work
Example:Preparing financial
model
• Prepared by a single
individual
• Once the financial model is
prepared the review of this model
can be done by different person.
Unpredictable
work flow
Clients demand is
unpredictable.
No work 1 week ,
demand comes
urgent at night
Example:- M & A transaction
• Very important and urgent since
 Possibility of information getting
leaked to the press
 Parties may loose time advantage

5. Can’t the analyst hire new employees?
Work cannot be divided
So, no point hiring new employees
Employees comes with high cost.
Stretching resources is cheaper than
hiring who are idle most of the time

6. Causes of toxic culture
Hiring right
people
Compensation
arrangements
Employee
retention
Bad hiring policies
and filing up the
company with:• Risk hungry
• Short term
thinkers
Incentives and bonus
structured in a way:• Maximizing your
ascendancy can
be a highly
lucrative business
Employees work
hard in an
organization for two
to three years enjoy
high bonus and move
to next organization

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