今年,当以往最受投资银行青睐的沃顿、芝加哥、哥伦比亚商学院的MBA们毕业的时候,这些天之骄子们却发现他们想进入投资银行工作的难度比往年大大增加了,除了因为经济不景气以外,还有一个主要原因是他们有了一个虽然年轻却很强大的对手——金融工程硕士,MFE(Master in Financial Engineering)!
Actually these with fresh MBAs and MFEs have different career profile, at least in the field of investment banking. They are not, for the most part, direct competitors.
Most MBAs are seeking roles in the field of traditional investment banking such as M&A in the front office, whereas MFEs are looking for trading, risk managment and modelling role in the middle and back office.
The time when they do compete is bonus time...In the past 2 years, traders won hands down over bankers.