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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

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For example: Early-Stage Startup: Can we raise more VC funding? For more on the day-to-day tasks, please see the articles on the Corporate Finance Analyst , the FP&A Manager , and the FP&A Director. The key questions that corporate finance teams answer also vary. Will the government raid our offices? Potentially, yes.

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Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

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People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. So, for example, quarterly financial models are more common in equity research, as are detailed bottoms-up models used in initiating coverage reports.

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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

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But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector. Public / Private Split – This is vital for stadiums and arenas because it dictates where the funding will come from, but it also extends to other firm types.

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Deals Don’t Fail on Paper—They Fail in People

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Seller-Financing Wins : Miller's first acquisition was a small, seller-financed deal—highlighting that not every transaction needs SBA debt or a PE fund. For him, most M&A failures have nothing to do with financial modeling and everything to do with emotional blind spots.

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Infrastructure Investment Banking: Definitions, Deals, and a Dizzying Diversity of Verticals

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For example, a public finance team would not advise on an M&A deal between two data center REITs or on the financing for a privately funded offshore wind farm. This makes these assets a bit lumpy in financial models because the total capacity can stay the same for years but suddenly jump up when an expansion is completed.

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Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance: Careers, Recruiting, Financial Modeling, and More

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This article will focus on careers and recruiting , while the accompanying YouTube video will discuss the technical/modeling aspects in more detail. And yes, coincidentally, we have a new Project Finance & Infrastructure Modeling course. What if there’s a budget overrun or construction delay?

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Event-Driven Hedge Funds: The Best Home for Bankers Turned Investors?

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“Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. But the other problem is that all hedge funds are “event-driven” because they invest based on catalysts , or specific events that could change a security’s price. If this fund is right, the company’s price may increase by 50%.

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