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Investment Banks

Would you put your money in an investment bank and take a huge risk? These texts are about investment banks. The first one, Investment banks – heroes or zeroes, is an attempt to understand whether the high salaries of investment bankers are proportional to the services they provide. What is investment banking anyway? – your guide to the industry, explains what an investment bank is, what are its main functions, why they are necessary and who they serve. The text The inside story: the myths and realities of investment banking and how you can nail the interview, demystifies what people think about what it is like to work at an investment bank and how to succeed in an interview at JP Morgan. Investment banks evolve risks, and some people would not want to take them and prefer security, but they can provide employment and relate to high-net-worth institutions of our society.

Text 2

Text 1

The objective of the text is to understand how investment banks make large profits and pay higher salaries than in other industries and how they justify awarding the executives like that.

The first text talks about what is an investment bank, what are the activities and their significance to the society.

GLOSSARY

Investment banks – It is a financial services company that acts as an intermediary in large and complex financial transactions.

Text 3

Securities – A security is a financial investment with some monetary value.

There are a lot of myths about what it is like to work at a global investment bank. Some employees from JP Morgan bank, were interviewed to clarify the realities of working there, demystifying those myths.

Bonds – A bond is a fixed income instrument that represents a loan made by an investor to a borrower.

Brokerage – Help clients to trade with each other.

Merges and acquisitions – A merger occur when two separate entities combine forces to create a new, joint organization.

Profits – Money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods and services.

Corporations – A large company or group of companies that is controlled together as a single organization.

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