cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Oct 13, 2011, 8:07 pm
If you believe that a picture is worth a thousand words, then I don't need a long post to explain why I like this photo from ChrisMartenson.com to represent the current state of the world banking...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Oct 13, 2011, 3:50 am
 Courtesy: Washington Post  A good friend tweeted me that question a week ago. I procrastinated for a couple of days, knowing that I was out of my depth on this issue, being neither a social...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Sep 8, 2011, 5:35 am
The Hedge Fund Division of StreetofWalls.com, a website which people use to learn about working on Wall Street, has released its "Hedge Fund Intelligence" report, an insightful study on the...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Sep 3, 2011, 7:20 am
AccountingCertifications.org, a niche online career education resource website for accountants, put a smile on my face today. Thanks to Tracy Myers of AccountingCertifications.org for informing me in...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 22, 2011, 10:41 pm
If you're looking for great reads on finance/investment, try clicking this link. The list contains James Montier's recommended best investment books. Montier, an investment guru, author and...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 17, 2011, 9:08 am
Finally, here’s a fresh take on money management by Jane Honeck, CPA, PFS (Professional Financial Specialist) and Empowerment Trainer that is so unlike any other I’ve read so far in the crowded...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jul 14, 2011, 9:37 am
I'd like to share here what I recently received from my friend, Chris, from BlueChipCareer.com, a company that facilitates personalized career guidance and job search assistance from professionals...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - May 10, 2011, 9:37 am
Photo courtesy: Flickr.com A good friend passed on this parable yesterday. It has a message for both the young and not so young so I thought I'd share this with you, in light of society's obsession...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Mar 21, 2011, 10:03 pm
I had a recent interview with OnlineCollege.org on a range of topics about me and my i-banking career, intended to guide people who want to go back to school and find careers that reflect their...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Mar 21, 2011, 6:03 am
Courtesy of Timtim.com I was at the mall yesterday to have my old dress watch repaired by an experienced watchmaker. It was a gift from the wife on her first business trip abroad many years ago, so...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Mar 11, 2011, 11:20 pm
It's humbling for me to receive today from Jonathan Walker of CarInsuranceComparison.org the HTML code for my badge as one of the Top Investment Banking Blogs (you can see the other listed blogs by...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jan 30, 2011, 9:20 am
Gordon Murray Gordon Murray's dream was to put his ideas on passive investing in a book so he could share them with as many individual investors as possible. It was, however, a project he had been...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jan 27, 2011, 12:48 am
Photo courtesy: Google Images I stumbled upon Nicole Hardesty's Dec. 2010 post on the 15 ridiculously hard job interview questions from top employers in The Huffington Post only today, as I was...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jan 18, 2011, 10:51 pm
 Photo courtesy: Google Images  Wealth-X, the world's leading provider of wealth intelligence on ultra high net worth individuals, released recently its analysis of Wall Street's ten (10)...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jan 12, 2011, 3:49 am
I've been out of the loop after checking into a hospital right after the New Year. I should have posted this email notice from Richard Wilson of HedgeFundBlogger.com two days ago but it's only today...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Dec 29, 2010, 8:57 am
I was surfing for some interesting issues when I came upon Jason Bishara's blog, where he cautioned retail investors against what he smells as a scam on Facebook private stock. Bishara is Founder and...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Dec 25, 2010, 3:51 am
Photo courtesy: Google Images And so it is Christmas. The mad rush for gifts, the usual run-up to that essential office party, the eager anticipation of that annual get-together with old college...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Dec 17, 2010, 8:26 am
Today, I mark the first day of a new chapter in my journey as a blogger with this maiden post from my guest blogger-friend from Wall Street. Let's welcome him with open arms: Investment Banking...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Dec 16, 2010, 9:22 am
My blog turns four years old this month. But did you know that I've written the eulogy for this blog two years ago? Yes. What saved this blog from near-death was enthusiastic readers' support and...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Nov 29, 2010, 4:57 am
 Photo courtesy: Google Images  A couple of days ago, I asked a good friend, who has an inside track on the industry, about his take on the ongoing insider trading investigation on Wall Street....
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Nov 28, 2010, 7:32 am
 Photo courtesy: Google Images  You didn't graduate from an Ivy League school, you have no connections and you have no relevant investment banking experience. Do you stand a ghost of a chance to...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Nov 21, 2010, 10:24 am
 Photo courtesy: Google Images  The problem with a single-minded pursuit of money, or power or fame, for that matter, is illustrated by the following story (author unknown) which a friend...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Nov 19, 2010, 6:50 am
Alright, I'm back after a two-month silence here. So sorry for tuning off so suddenly. I've been busy with a consulting engagement with a tight timeline that effectively sequestered my blogging...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Sep 14, 2010, 11:10 pm
Back in August, Chris, a former investment banking analyst, wrote me about a new company that he started to help young job seekers break into finance. I thought he had mission/vision that I could...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Sep 9, 2010, 11:44 am
I started getting interested in Wall Street only after an accidental career change in 1995. In a way, it was Michael Lewis who "introduced" me to the ways of Wall Street because the first book I read...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Sep 8, 2010, 6:41 am
If you work in Wall Street, The City or other major financial centers around the world, Bloomberg's Yalman Onaran may have some bad news for you. He reported today that, according to Meredith Whitney...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Sep 1, 2010, 9:09 am
I retweeted today 5 posts with different takes on Daniel "Dan" S. Loeb's Second Quarter 2010 Investor Letter, as you can see from my Twitter widget on the right sidebar. I did so to highlight...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 28, 2010, 2:25 am
Oh, I finally yielded to the siren call of microblogging by joining Twitter(@sarzi_m). Unlike younger "twitters," however, I don't intend to use this platform as an open personal diary. Instead, I...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 25, 2010, 7:27 am
We're not done yet with the Hungry Ghost Month and now here comes the so-called Hindenberg Omen, foreshadowing more market gloom. Some stock market pundits even go as far as to say that this heralds...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 22, 2010, 10:56 pm
The New York Times' Julie Creswell has some good news (for us humans): "For a change, flesh-and-blood money managers are doing better than the machines. Much of the money that is flowing out of quant...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 13, 2010, 11:55 am
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), a bellwether of Wall Street trading activity, has tumbled for three consecutive days, by a cumulative 378.80 points as of Thursday. This report attributes...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 8, 2010, 11:31 am
I thought of checking out Yahoo's Odd News section for some entertainment as my way of capping a long day. What I stumbled upon is an example of the type of compulsive, undisciplinable poker...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 4, 2010, 5:29 am
Do you play poker? Go figure this out: Assume you're playing seven card stud, and it's the last round of betting. You have three cards in the hole and four aces showing; your opponent has the two of...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Aug 2, 2010, 5:25 am
If you second-guessed me by thinking I was referring to one of the big guns on Wall Street, prepare to be surprised (like me when I first read Reuter's report last Friday). A privately held global...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jul 28, 2010, 4:47 am
I've been wanting to blog about the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which was finally signed into law by US President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010. The problem is, at 2,319...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jul 28, 2010, 4:47 am
I've been wanting to blog about the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act which was finally signed into law by US President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010. The problem is even if I can get hold of this 2,319-page document, it might take me until the next financial crisis just...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 29, 2010, 2:44 am
Anyone interested in forming his own view on the impact or implications of the financial reform bill on Wall Street as well as Main Street would need to have a deep understanding of the issues...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 28, 2010, 10:05 pm
The crucial penultimate stage in the law making process (i.e., crafting of the final bill) is like crossing a chasm in two small jumps, to borrow a metaphor from David Lloyd George. It sounds...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 22, 2010, 10:35 pm
In their New York Times report here, Eric Dash and Nelson D. Schwartz walked us through how Wall Street banks would cope in a worst-case scenario whereby the industry's best lobbying efforts...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 22, 2010, 11:17 am
A few months back, I downloaded Richard Wilson's free Hedge Fund E-Book at HedgeFundBlogger.com. Since then I've received updates of the Hedge Fund Group's online activities and events that those...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 22, 2010, 4:24 am
In a recent note to clients, a team of Citigroup analysts, led by Keith Horowitz, indicated that the proposed financial regulatory reforms could cost the top Wall Street banks billions of dollars...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 17, 2010, 6:49 am
It's been a year since US President Barack Obama proposed in June 2009 sweeping changes in the financial regulatory system after the near-collapse of the world financial system in the fall of 2008...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 16, 2010, 12:06 pm
In a recent interview at Tech Ticker, Barron's contributing editor and author of Chasing Goldman Sachs, Suzanne McGee, said that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is "on his way out the door" and...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 8, 2010, 3:49 am
My good friend Vic emailed to me this morning a short compilation of Biblical humor. I found the following three particularly suitable as banker jokes. See if you agree: Q. Who was the greatest...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 6, 2010, 9:24 am
I've always thought that good looks are a ticket to success, following the logic behind what psychologists call the "halo effect" ( an allusion to the perfection associated with angels). After all...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Jun 3, 2010, 11:12 pm
Vedran Vuk's piece in the June 3 edition of Casey's Daily Dispatch caught my attention this morning. His premise is interesting: Our daily food choices reveal our risk preferences. From here, he goes...
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cesar m. posted an article on An Investment Banker's Take On Life - Apr 28, 2010, 12:39 am
There are two opposing views on the robustness of the securities fraud case filed against Goldman Sachs by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Skeptics say that the SEC's case against Goldman...
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