Employment Report 2014
2013/14 Class Profile The Department of Finance is home to 250 Masters students across five degree programmes: MSc Finance (Full-time), MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and Private Equity, MSc Risk and Finance and MSc Finance (Part-time). With the exception of MSc Finance (Part-time), which is taught to working executives, all programmes are pre-experience with the majority of graduating students entering analyst level positions. Undergraduate students on programmes run by other departments at LSE are not represented in these figures. Employment statistics Data taken from 190 respondents of 236 graduating students Top locations London 5 69% 5 9% Hong Kong Job sector Industry 2 1 Function Paris Shanghai 2 Beijing Finance 69% 5 M & A Sales & Trading 2 2 Frankfurt VC / Private Equity Research 1 2 Public Finance Asset Management Risk Management 10% Further Study Central Banks IT / Software Development 20% Debt Capital Markets 2 2
2013/14 list of employers A.T. Kearney ABN AMRO Ample Capital Limited Bain & Company Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bank of China Bank of Communications Bank of England Banque Hottinguer BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) Bebit Berenberg Bidwells Blackstone Bloomberg BMO Capital Markets BNP Paribas Boston Group (BCG) BP Bridgepoint Calibration Partners Capital SCF Carlyle Group Cathay United Bank CF Partners China Development Bank China International Capital Corporation (CICC) China Resources (Holdings) Co Christchurch London Citi CITIC Coca-Cola Columbia University Commerzbank AG Debtwire Analytics Deloitte () Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) DSD Thai Gems Ltd EMPower Capital Ernst & Young (Accounting Services) Ernst & Young () Erste Group FBR Financial Times Fleming Family and Partners Fundation Group Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) GF Securities Global Investment House Goldman Sachs HC Securities and Investments Henderson Global Investors HSBC ICBC International Holdings Insight Investment Jefferies KPMG (Accounting Services) LCH.Clearnet Lincoln International LMN Capital London Stock Exchange LSE (Further Study) M.M.Warburg Macquarie Group Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry McKinsey & Company Military Service Mizuho Corporate Bank Moelis & Company Morgan Stanley MVision Natixis NERA Economic Nomura Nordea Northwestern University Novo Nordisk Oxera Parexel PIMCO Plastic Bubbles PwC () Rackspace RBC Capital Markets Renaissance Capital Rocket Internet Rothschild Roubini Global Economics Royal Bank of Canada Royal Bank of Scotland Group Sequoia Capital Simmons & Co Société Générale Standard Chartered State Street Associates Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation The Brattle Group Tyler Capital UBS Unilever PLC University of Central Punjab University of Michigan Law School (Further Study) University of Oxford (Further Study) ZS Associates Top 5 employers RBS 3
All Department of Finance Alumni Data relating to the current jobs of all alumni from each year of the Department s degree programmes: MSc Finance (Full-time), MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and Private Equity, MSc Risk and Finance, MSc Finance (Part-time) and the PhD Finance. Employment statistics Top 20 employers Data taken from 1723 respondents of 2453 graduating students 6 1 Job sector 1 Finance 6 1 40% Industry 40% 1 Sales & Trading Risk Management 2 Function 9% 1 10% 2 Citi Morgan Stanley Goldman Sachs HSBC BA Merrill Lynch RBS BCG PwC UBS BNP Paribas Ernst & Young Standard Chartered McKinsey & Co Nomura BlackRock Deloitte 66 50 39 38 38 34 33 31 30 30 24 24 23 22 19 17 16 16 13 12 1 Asset Management 9% M & A 10% Public Finance VC / Private Equity Structuring Further Study Corporates / Industry Equity Capital Markets Academia Financial Services Debt Capital Markets 2 3 4
Alumni locations California Rest of North America South America New York 4 London 20% Europe Africa Middle East Russia region India region Rest of China Shanghai South-East Asia Beijing Australia Hong Kong East Asia 5