It's getting really tough these days to make the case for getting into investment banking. The hours are long. The work can be boring. And it seems like everyone — from hedge funders to private ...

An investment bank stands to make a profit in this scenario, generally pricing its shares at a markup. While experienced analysts at the investment bank use their expertise to price the stock ...

Now I'm a private-equity associate in London. I was making slightly more in investment banking, but now I make £160,000 a year, or around $185,000, from my salary and bonus. Many junior bankers ...

For the most part, investment banks make their money from fees. For example, when a corporation hires investment bankers to advise on a merger, they pay an advisory fee. The same is true for ...

Bankers only get paid when a deal consummates. This makes for a juicy, eat-what-you-kill landscape. This is even more so the case when large-scale M&A activity is sparse. Investment bankers jostle ...