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We are an institutional broker-dealer which trades high yield and distressed debt of U.S. and international issuers, convertible securities, and special situations equities.
We are seeking applicants for associate in our securities research department for a late-November/December interview/screening process and a late January/early February 2008 start. This position is a great place to begin, or reposition, a Wall Street career, with the potential for direct promotion to senior analyst or lateral moves into sales and trading. We support progress towards the CFA Charter and other professional development and securities industry registrations, as well.
We are interested in recent finance or accounting BA/BS graduates as well as holders of other degrees with solid analytical skills and 1-2 years of meaningful post-BA work experience.
Applications must include a cover letter in the body of the e-mail, a one-page resume in Word format (.doc), and a two-to-five page writing sample (on any subject; college papers acceptable).
posted to MeFi Jobs by MattD
at 10:22 AM on November 16, 2007
An experienced structured products attorney is sought to transition to a trading/desk analyst role. We are a fixed-income-focused global institutional broker-dealer working to expand our capabilities in secondary trading of structured products (MBS, CDOs, ABCP, etc.) This is an exceptional opportunity to move to the business side of Wall Street while continuing to leverage expertise and relationships accumulated in legal practice. Compensation for the first year in this position will be comparable to law firm compensation; pay thereafter will be fully performance-based, with the potential significantly to exceed law firm compensation.
posted to MeFi Jobs by MattD
at 12:40 PM on November 8, 2007
We are a successful boutique brokerage, focused exclusively on trading equities, convertibles, emerging markets securities, and high yield bonds with hedge funds and other institutional investors.
We are seeking to add an associate to our Emerging Markets research function, which focuses principally (although not exclusively) upon Latin American corporate bonds.
For this position, we have the following specific requirements:
(1) Spanish fluency and native/near-native fluency in English,
(2) one or more (1+) years of experience in Latin American corporate credit,
(3) bachelor's degree; additional credentials welcome.
This position has an initial "target" (but not guaranteed) total compensation range of $65,000 to $85,000, including a bonus and a base salary of $45,000 to $60,000 depending upon experience.
Our associates, if successful, have the opportunity to progress rapidly in responsibilty, rank and compensation, including promotion to senior analyst roles and lateral moves to institutional sales and trading.
This is a refinement of a broader associate-/senior-associate level recruiting launched with an earlier round of ads (on Craigslist and elsewhere); there is no need to reapply if you applied initially.
Interested applicants should submit a resume and writing samples in both English and Spanish.
posted to MeFi Jobs by MattD
at 11:51 AM on May 17, 2007
We are a boutique securities brokerage.
We (electronically) publish securities research product on a daily basis, and require a multi-talented staffer who can copy-edit and format raw analyst product (Word text and Excel figures) into finished product, as well help us handle a high volume of changes to our distribution/customer lists. We currently generate our published PDFs from a variety of Word templates but are open to moving to a more sophisticated desktop publishing platform if the right person comes in to champion the transition.
We would like someone with relevant experience, a cheerful and flexible attitude, and an authentic interest in the world of finance. This is a mission critical position and requires someone with
no problem with
consistent attendance and an early start time (7:30 AM in midtown Manhattan).
There is definite opportunity for advancement into a junior professional research role for someone who succeeds in the specified responsibilities for a considerable period of time, but we'd be equally happy with someone with a permanent interest in this particular set of duties.
posted to MeFi Jobs by MattD
at 5:31 PM on March 1, 2007
Duties are (1) assist senior analysts with fixed income and equity reserach projects, (2) assist in daily publication and distribution schedule and other department support functions, and (3) (as skill-set develops) take on independent research projects on lower-priority issuers.
Long-term promotional track to senior analyst; lateral moves to sales and trading possible. During tenure, associate will be expected (and will be supported) to obtain Series 7, Series 86, and Series 87 and to make progress towards a CFA charter.
This is an entry-level position suitable for someone with an intense desire to get to Wall Street and to succeed once there. Basic familiarity with markets and with Excel required, as well as a BA/BS.
Our firm is a boutique broker-dealer trading exclusively with hedge funds and other institutional investors, and is focued on high yield, emerging markets, convertibles, and special situations equities.
Applications should include scores (with percentiles) on most recent standardized examinations taken.
This is an immediate start position; applicants not free to begin work immediately need not apply.
posted to MeFi Jobs by MattD
at 2:46 PM on January 27, 2007
Is it possible/practical to have multiple server-side mobile messaging solutions running on our Exchange server simultaneously?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 7:43 AM on December 17, 2006
(1 comment)
A mid-size financial services firm is seeking an experienced professional who can (1) maintain and improve our high-volume, mission-critical Verity document systems, (2) maintain and improve our proprietary MS Access-based data systems, (3) take on projects selectively integrating or cross-updating our Verity and MS Access systems, and (4) maintain and improve our promotional website.
The core functions of this position must be performed independently and in satisfaction of the needs of non-technical staff in other departments of the Firm. As such, a high degree of experience with the technology in question, a high degree of personal reliability and integrity, and strong business communication skills are all critical.
Given the independent and professional character of the support required, we will consider filling this need on a contracting basis, but would require that we be the contractor's principal client and that the contractor be based in or near New York City and be regularly available via onsite or remote connection. We will also consider filling this position on a full-time employee basis; if employed, we will also ask the person hired to use downtime to share in the support of other applications and systems with our broader IT department.
Please submit resumes and compensation requirements to the below e-mail address. Your application package MUST include clear and specific statements of the degree and source of experience with the referenced applications and with the approrpiate underlying systems.
posted to MeFi Jobs by MattD
at 12:34 PM on December 5, 2006
Hooray for MetaFiler Jobs! I got
hundreds of inquiries from Craigslist and other job boards but ended up hiring the one (1) person who applied from
this MeFi jobs posting.
posted to MetaTalk by MattD
at 5:57 PM on October 13, 2006
(11 comments)
Duties are (1) assist senior analysts with fixed income and equity reserach projects, (2) assist in daily publication and distribution schedule and other department support functions, and (3) (as skill-set develops) take on independent research projects on lower-priority issuer.
Long-term promotional track to senior analyst; lateral moves to sales and trading possible. During tenure, associate will be expected (and will be supported) to obtain Series 7, Series 86, and Series 87 and to make progress towards a CFA charter.
This is an entry-level position suitable for someone with an intense desire to get to Wall Street and to succeed once there. Basic familiarity with markets and with Excel required, as well as a BA/BS.
Our firm is a boutique broker-dealer trading exclusively with hedge funds and other institutional investors, and is focued on high yield, emerging markets, convertibles, and special situations equities.
Applications should include scores (with percentiles) on most recent standardized examinations taken. This position will be filled no later than mid-October, applicants not immediately available should not apply. Recruiter inquiries welcome, on a contingent basis only.
posted to MeFi Jobs by MattD
at 6:17 AM on September 25, 2006
A Guardian
story linked on this
thread contained the following, quite curious clause:
"That's Stelios as in Haji-Ioannou, although he now, alongside Delia and Jamie and Sven, belongs in that rare category - the surnameless celebrity." Naturally, I though "who the heck," and, of course, came to wonder: who are some American mega-stars who would pass completely unrecognized on London streets?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 12:03 PM on August 13, 2006
(46 comments)
Slate Remembers Nerd Camp.
I'd thought all parents everywhere were sending their kids to turn-pro-at-18 camp now, but it seems that CTY is bigger than ever. (Albeit subject to
accusations that the standards have been watered down.)
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 11:31 AM on July 21, 2006
(76 comments)
Is there product which combines audio with DVI video into an HDMI output?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 10:56 AM on February 12, 2006
(3 comments)
How can we make documents stored on our password-protected Verity website visible to Google?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 6:24 AM on January 12, 2006
(6 comments)
In Middle Class, Signs of Anxiety on School Efforts.
The New York City Department of Education has made a number of changes to gifted and talented and special admission programs, and has increased the emphasis on test preparation. These changes (it is suggested) may start pushing middle-class parents out of the (relatively few) public schools regarded as good. Parents who can afford the $20k tuition and who can manage the admissions process will go to private school ... one supposes those who fall short on either front will go to the suburbs.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 6:24 AM on December 27, 2005
(20 comments)
Relocating non-load-bearing walls in an apartment: broad cost range and any other suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 7:25 PM on December 20, 2005
(6 comments)
Some of the responses in
this AskMeFi thread were dangerously wrong. I understand that AskMeFi is all fun and games, but when a poster asks a legal question and then says that he has no intention of consulting a lawyer, we're walking on dangerous ground in terms of the quality of the answers.
Not sure that there's any easy solution, but it's something worth thinking about.
posted to MetaTalk by MattD
at 7:09 AM on November 25, 2005
(11 comments)
Suggestions for a lightweight, but capable, snowblower?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 10:51 AM on November 12, 2005
(2 comments)
"L" Train Won't Run on Weekends.
Although the true hardcore won't be bothered -- because they never leave Brooklyn on the weekends -- this might cramp the style of the rest.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 7:21 AM on November 1, 2005
(252 comments)
Home theater geeks: when will true 1080p big screen TVs be on the market at a consumer price point?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 9:46 PM on September 25, 2005
(6 comments)
What should one expect to pay for a decent 3-bedroom rental apartment on the Upper East Side?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 12:42 PM on August 13, 2005
(4 comments)
Proposal: MetaSoapbox.
It seems that there's a lot of angsty energy being expended trying to keep people from using the blue, and even more so askmefi and metatalk, to get their polemical selves all wound up, announcing their latest charge-the-windmill initiatives, etc., etc. , etc.
While this all for the good, I can't help but think that there's often nothing better on the Internet than a good polemic, particularly a funny or provocative one, and no better place for it than here, where it's not all preaching to the choir.
I know that some people might say "that's what your own damn blog is for" but knowing that a stupid or impetuous soapbox effort will be laughed down (or, worse, ignored) can motivate and discipline a lot higher quality product than a typical blog.
And I'm not really thinking of politics as the exclusive subject, either. Lots of other subjects. All of you who labor in anonymity, striving to promote your Rant and Rave to Best of Craigslist, here's your chance to shine!
posted to MetaTalk by MattD
at 7:39 PM on July 19, 2005
(25 comments)
What are some good ideas for a business that could be started with $25,000 in capital and run by a talented person a less-than-full-time basis? (Obviously, this person could be assisted by employee(s) if the cash flow supported them, so it doesn't have to be a less-than-full-time
business.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 6:06 AM on July 7, 2005
(11 comments)
Does anyone know of Hyde Park (Chicago) apartment buildings with children's playrooms or an otherwise kid-friendly environment?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 1:18 PM on April 29, 2005
(8 comments)
Retail-or-bar-or-restaurant-mananger-filter: who is the best background music provider (DMX, Muzak, PlayNetwork, etc.) and why?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 11:56 AM on April 5, 2005
(11 comments)
TiVo saved?
After a grim 4Q04 conference call, focusing on bells and whistles for which there's little evidence of customer demand, it's now reported that TiVo is on the verge of striking a deal with Comcast to integrate TiVo software and services into Comcast's integrated tuner-DVRs. TiVo needs this deal very, very badly...
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 4:32 AM on March 15, 2005
(29 comments)
Court orders $5.6 billion per year increase in NYC schools funding.
The order, being appealed by Gov. Pataki, compels a 35% increase in operating funds for NYC public schools, and an additional $9 billion for school construction, but doesn't say which taxes ought to be raised to pay for it.
Supporters and
opponents both agree that, if implemented, the order would have a dramatic effect. Supporters think poor black and hispanic students will get a better education; opponents are dubious about the educational benefits and certain of the disastrous effects of a massive tax increase. A second arguments concerns whether the city ought to bear some of the costs, or the state should have to bear them all.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 11:56 AM on February 18, 2005
(40 comments)
Why shouldn't I let my Salon premium subscription lapse?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 7:35 AM on February 14, 2005
(16 comments)
New York MeFites -- do you know (or are you) a lawyer in a small firm, interested in taking on business clients who need modest quantities of good, sophisticated corporate and finance counseling, and who are happy to pay NYC rates for it?
I regularly receive requests for referals to such lawyers but can't satisfy them from my network of big firm lawyers who are bound to firm policies which set $50k to $100k per-matter minimums.
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 7:27 AM on January 7, 2005
(4 comments)
Pork Farmers in Hog Heaven!
Atkins and skyrocketing beef prices result in pork producers "experiencing demand far in excess of anything [they]'ve seen historically." Pork prices are very high on the spot and futures market but still a value relative to meat. Perhaps this will increase the demand for tasty
Berkshire hog pork, the kind that pre-dates the breeding which produced the "other white meat."
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 5:21 AM on October 19, 2004
(9 comments)
Why this election is so disappointing...
Opposite today's New York Times' 30-column-inch endorsement of John Kerry, Thomas Friedman makes a good case that several of the most important issues are not being talked about by either candidate in any serious way.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 11:05 AM on October 17, 2004
(27 comments)
California bill to ease "move aways" by custodial parents pulled.
Until a recent CA Supreme Court decision, it was easy for custodial parents to move themselves and their children far from their ex-spouse. The Court reversed the old rule and held that the move could be blocked if the non-custodial parent could show that it would interfere with his/her relationship with the kids. Legislation to reimpose the old permissive standard passed through the State Senate, but has now been pulled off the legislative calendar after an outcry by father's rights groups.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 1:03 PM on August 18, 2004
(17 comments)
Does anyone know the annual "failure rate" of current HIV drug treatment regimes, i.e., of those who are fully compliant, what percentage per year are dying, and what percentage are becoming chronically debilitated?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MattD
at 9:41 AM on April 19, 2004
(4 comments)
Unmitigated gall.
The illegal aliens who got two hearts and two lungs for their daughter REFUSED to have any of her organs donated when it was clear she was brain-dead...
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 5:35 PM on February 22, 2003
(240 comments)
Internet advertising to be second only to TV ads in the near future?
A
Slate dialogist predicts that within 1,000 days (a little under 3 years) the aggregate Internet advertising spend will exceed that for each of the other media (except for television). More than radio, more than newspapers, more than magazines. Believe it?
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 2:32 PM on January 13, 2003
(7 comments)
"This car isn't meant to be an SUV, a mini-van, or a sedan"
... becuase, of course, it's a station wagon (the body type that dare not speak its name), albeit a sleek new Chrysler Pacifica, now starring in double-page spreads in your finer magazines. The Europeans have never stopped making great wagons, but its been a while since anything less apalling than the Taurus Wagon came out of Detroit or Tokyo.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 4:18 PM on December 18, 2002
(49 comments)
Oregon Measure 23
Oregon's single-payer-health-care referendum:
Sanity in the face of returning double-digit annual cost increases (after an HMO-induced respite), or a tax-and-spend, job-destroying
nightmare which even the public-employee unions (not well-known supporters of any for-profit system)
oppose?
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 12:32 PM on October 30, 2002
(38 comments)
Strippers a better catch than a woman lawyer in a big firm?
The Greedy Associates boards typically obsess over how hard it is for a 27-year-old, already making $150,000 a year, to make their Christmas bills without a mid-four-figures bonus. "Howard Beale" sparked a debate on whole 'nother issue...
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 10:33 AM on October 23, 2002
(24 comments)
How will Democrats respond to a left-wing, pro-life, presidential candidate?
Congressman Dennis Kucinich is being loudly promoted as the left-wing dream candidate for 2004 -- someone who can bring the Naderites back in the fold and send a message, that mainstream / moderate Democrats won't or can't, about being for the "people, not the powerful." Yet he has always and continues to oppose legal abortion. Can he be nominated? Would most progressives prefer a conservative Democrat who is right (in their opinion) on abortion, to a progressive who they see as wrong in that issue?
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 8:50 AM on August 13, 2002
(68 comments)
Whither the Green Party USA?
Reporting from the Green Party 2002 midterm convention,
The Nation's writer reports an (uneasy) consensus for "spoiling" selected races against the Democrats, but less clarity on how to get from there to a policy-making role in government.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 1:41 PM on August 5, 2002
(17 comments)
Poverty is Expensive (part 59)
The "i-Gen" prepaid MasterCard, available at a Rite-Aid near you, for those who don't have bank accounts (for debit cards) to say the least of credit ratings sufficient to get credit cards. Pay a $10.00 upfront fee, pay another $5 a month plus a "reload" fee of at least $5 every time your card runs down, all for the privilege of letting them hold on to your cash at no interest.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 9:09 PM on July 7, 2002
(28 comments)
History repeats itself?
Lest we forget, constitutional qualms about the Pledge helped bring down Mike Dukakis 14 years ago ... will the Democrats, in an urge to avoid the same fate, let through Bush's slate of conservative nominees? How about a new Justice if Rehnquist retires?
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 11:13 AM on June 27, 2002
(3 comments)
c2it to be free; PayPal raising fees.
Will this spell the end of PayPal? Free c2it from Citibank can be used the same way the "old" PayPal could (for friends and roommates to settle up bills) as well cutting deeply into PayPal's core on-line auction settlement business (well over half its revenue), already under attack by eBay's Billpoint.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 1:09 PM on November 16, 2001
(8 comments)
Paratroopers?
Or cruise missiles? What will America's military response be if the Taliban are determined to be liable? The Russians certainly didn't too well with a conventional military attack on Afghanistan.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 6:49 PM on September 11, 2001
(34 comments)
Home schooling goes mainstream (cover story of Time).
Although the article is appallingly poorly-written (does
Time have editors anymore?), it points to double-digit growth with only a few anecdotal chestnuts about "socialization" to throw against the trend.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 8:12 AM on August 21, 2001
(59 comments)
Monster.com parent buys HotJobs.
TMP, the parent company of Monster.com, has acquired HotJobs for $460 million in stock. Although they plan to maintain HotJobs as a "stand-alone brand" the jobs and resume databases will be merged.
I'm really skeptical -- virtually everyone I know searched both Monster and HotJobs, and posted resumes on both places, so what are they really getting but duplication? (HotJobs used to have a very distinctive approach -- no headhunters, in short -- but it had backed off of that recently.)
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 3:51 PM on July 1, 2001
(5 comments)
Communists infiltrating the Oakland, Calif. teachers union.
The Trotskyites of the Revolutionary Workers League, having branched out from the perpetual student-revolutionary ghetto on the fringes of UC Berkeley (2 miles north of the Oakland city limits), are hungering to grab a bully pulpit and $300,000 a year worth of dues, and are well on their well to controlling the union's executive board.
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 11:46 AM on June 15, 2001
(4 comments)
Prom dresses getting skimpier
(NB: New York Times link). I have to believe that Principal Matakovich would have made prom night a quick roundtrip home for any girl who showed up at the San Luis Obispo High School prom dressed in one of these ... (although one hesitates to use Size 2 Spence girls as a firm sign of a trend).
posted to MetaFilter by MattD
at 10:50 AM on May 29, 2001
(23 comments)
