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Title: Bigwig Briefs: Become an Investment Banker - The Real World Intelligence Necessary to Become a Successful Investment Banker by Aspatore Books, Aspatore Books Staff ISBN: 1-58762-164-9 Publisher: Aspatore Books Pub. Date: 31 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Very good book...do not miss.
Comment: I would highly recommend this book to anyone going into, or thinking of going into investment banking. I am now an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and this book was really helpful to me landing the job (and getting integrated)

The excerpts from leading investment bankers is extremely useful and really helps for interviewing or just getting integrated into a new investment bank. Especially useful was the chapter written by the head of investment banking from Merrilly Lynch.

The book is short and very easy to read. I highligh recommend it for anyone interested in investment banking.

Rating: 2
Summary: Misleading title -- a disappointment
Comment: There is not much to this book - 80 pages of large print, double-spaced text. The book is organized into 10 sections - one for each "bigwig" that was interviewed. You get the impression that each contributor was asked to talk for 5 or 10 minutes about something - anything - that pertained to their job.

More disturbing is that the final 4 contributors are not investment bankers at all, but are venture capitalists (who talk about venture capital), so 40% of the book has nothing to do with investment banking.

Finally (and rather remarkably), I don't think the book gave any advice on actually becoming an investment banker - wasn't that the point?

Two stars is probably a generous assessment, but the book does shed some light on what investment banks actually "do," and the traits of good investment bankers - albeit very senior ones, since the job description of a junior banker is very different from senior one (read: crunching numbers v. generating M&A ideas & maintaining relationships with CEOs).

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