![]() “Wait a couple of days and then do the opposite and that is how you make money in this business.” Finally, if you're making investments, read the trading research. Secondly, keep your head during a crisis because “when things go bad in finance, they go really, really bad”. Rolet says that choosing a boss who is not “nice and soft”, but who will tell it like it is and get the best out of you is the most important decision of your life – this is more important than what you do or where you work, he said. “So, there is no crisis in finance in the short-term,” said Assaf. Investment banks may have shrunk "a bit", they say ( try, 21%), but asset management, private equity and hedge funds are bigger than ever. In some (very) rare interviews with Financial News, Alan Howard, co-founder of hedge fund Brevan Howard, Samir Assaf, chief executive of HSBC’s investment bank and Xavier Rolet, senior investment banker turned CEO of the London Stock Exchange, imparted their career pearls of wisdom. So, it’s no surprise that while consultants predict a relentless decline for investment banks, senior bankers and hedge fund managers still think that the financial sector is really the place to be. While commentators see chaos, they see pipelines, cycles and turnarounds on the horizon. ![]() Senior financiers are optimists, at least in public.
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