The Wall Street Skinny

Send us Fan Mail Our long awaited Bankers vs. Lawyers podcast episode! Wondering about the differences and similarities between traditionally "good" jobs like doctor, banker, and lawyer? Or maybe how to transition from a career in law to one in high finance? We are going to pull back the curtain and explore the business, lifestyle, and culture of "big law", while debunking the myths and misconcept...

Send us Fan Mail The Skinny on ECB Cutting Rates, GameStop Continued and Being "Too Thin" Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking & Private Equity Fundamentals HEREFixed Income Sales & Trading HERE Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@thewallstreetskinny

Send us Fan Mail In the second of our three SALT iConnections interview series, we sat down with Ty Wallach, a living legend in the credit investing world.  Ty was a partner and portfolio manager at Oak Hill and Paulson, two of the most successful and famous names in investing over the past three decades, and is currently the CIO of Credit at Atlas Merchant Capital. We spoke with Ty about his role...

Send us Fan Mail The Skinny On T+1 Settlement Changes, Citi's Fat Finger Trade, Hedge Fund fundraising woes, and Private Credit! Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking & Private Equity Fundamentals HEREFixed Income Sales & Trading HERE Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@thewallstreetskinny

Send us Fan Mail Live from SALT iConnections in NYC, we are joined by Anthony Scaramucci, a financial, political, and pop culture icon here in America.  Anthony worked at Goldman Sachs, is the founder of SkyBridge Capital (a global alternatives investment firm), and is the founder of the SALT iConnections cap intro conference...but is possibly most infamous for his 11 day stint as the White House...

Send us Fan Mail We're BACK from a whirlwind 48 hours in NYC, fully rested and ready to give you the skinny on the latest in global markets.  First, a quick recap of our adventures at one of the world's largest cap intro conferences, where we got to chat with some of the industry's greatest thought leaders and meet new friends throughout the industry.  Next up, a quick note on today's Bloomberg ar...

Send us Fan Mail We talk about Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and other "Alternative" Investment Funds all the time.  But we don't always stop to ask, "how do they get all their money?"  In this episode, we sat down with  CEO of iConnections Ron Biscardi to explore the world of "Cap Intro": the ecosystem within which capital --- meaning, the money from pension funds, endowments, foundations, insuranc...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we share our thoughts on the new Ghat-GPT4o update in light of Apple's controversial commercial, our thoughts on the difference between gambling and investing in light of the GameStop / AMC resurgence, and finally the intersection of golf and finance.  Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking & Private Equity Fundamentals HEREFixed Income Sales & Trading...

Send us Fan Mail We often talk about institutional investors as the allocators of capital to the public and private markets.  They are huge, active participants driving supply and demand dynamics in the fixed income and equity markets, and they often make sizable investments as LPs in private equity and private credit funds.  But what exactly are they trying to accomplish, and why? We sat down wit...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a bit lighter. We get into what it means that "FTX found the money" as well as catch up about some super random stuff including the Tom Brady roast, NYC comedy clubs, Broadway, musical instruments, and our personal phobias.  Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking & Private Equity Fundamentals HEREFixed Income Sales & Trading HERE Subscribe to our Substa...

Send us Fan Mail Many assume that those who are skilled in high finance are also experts in personal finance and managing their own money.  But NOTHING could be further from the truth!  We sat down with Katy Song, a former Investment Banker and published author, who is the Chief Financial Planner for Domain Money (a new financial planning company that is revolutionizing the approach to personal fi...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's edition of "The Skinny On", we get into an update on the Fed, Jen rants about bank balance sheet reqs, and Kristen gives you the skinny on the drama unfolding at Paramount amid merger talks with SkyDance and Apollo. Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking & Private Equity Fundamentals HEREFixed Income Sales & Trading HERE Subscribe to our Substack: https://s...

Send us Fan Mail Credit Strategy: how does it work, who are the players, and what are the career opportunities?  Today we are discussing the structure of the Credit Strategy desk at an Investment Bank with Dominique Toublan, head of US Credit Strategy at Barclays Capital.  We discuss how you approach the vast world of corporate bonds and distill trends as a strategist, how you reconcile investor s...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we give you the Skinny on PCE (Personal consumption expenditures), we define "Risk Off", we chat about the news that Kim Kardashian has only raised $120mm of her $1-$2Bn target for her Skky Partners PE fund, talk Netflix and Meta earnings and finally share our take on the TikTok ban. Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking & Private Equity Fundamentals H...

Send us Fan Mail So many finance hopefuls dream of a career in Private Equity.  But what do you actually DO during your internship, starting out as a full-time Analyst, or as an Associate?  How do those roles differ at a mega fund vs. a smaller firm?  Are there advantages to starting out in Private Equity vs. doing a tour of duty at an Investment Bank or MBB consulting firm?  We sat down with Kari...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode we talk about the market's response to geopolitical risks, Jane Street's atypical transparency around Q1 earnings ahead of their bond issuance, and what to do if you get laid off from your Wall Street job.   Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking & Private Equity Fundamentals HEREFixed Income Sales & Trading HERE Subscribe to our Substack: https://s...

Send us Fan Mail Want to understand commercial real estate investing?  Real estate banking?  What about starting your own investment bank?  Or succeeding in the upper echelons of finance while raising young children? How about ALL OF THE ABOVE?We are joined today by Deborah Smith, CEO and co-founder of a boutique investment bank specializing in real estate advisory, to explore the 101s of CRE inve...

Send us Fan Mail In our latest edition of our new weekly markets breakdown, we cover yesterday’s CPI release and its impact on the interest rates, credit, and equity markets.  With earning’s season kicking off, we explain how to frame your thinking about earnings releases as you start to think about how these moves in the market translate into corporate valuations and projections going forward.  W...

Send us Fan Mail Guy Adami is an original member of CNBC's Fast Money. Guy began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert as a commodity trader on their precious metals desk. In 1996 he joined J. Aron, the famed commodity and currency group at Goldman Sachs where he was their head gold trader. In 2021, Guy, along with Dan Nathan, started RiskReversal Media. In addition to Fast Money, Guy and Dan have...

Send us Fan Mail We're mixing it up with new weekly episodes where we give you the skinny on what's happening in the markets and big deals in the news, and explain why that matters TO YOU.  Topics today include the Non-Farm Payrolls Report and the unwritten rules of how to behave in order to succeed in finance.  Let us know if you want more episodes like this by emailing your thoughts to questions...

Send us Fan Mail The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled "Women Aren't Getting the Big Jobs at Goldman Sachs, and They're Heading for the Exits" (linked below).  That same day, we were asked by our social media community whether our best managers were male or female when we were working at investment banks.  Our answer?  Male.  We received HUNDREDS of messages from our communi...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered what global macro trading looks like at the world's most elite hedge funds like Citadel, Balyasny, and Bluecrest?  You might imagine you'd need a tremendous grasp of the markets, an ability to analyze and interpret massive amounts of data & research, and a talent for identifying the optimal vehicles for expressing your views.  Now imagine doing all of this...without...

Send us Fan Mail Today is part II of our "intro to crypto" series.  We're back with Chris Newhouse to discuss breaking into careers in the digital currency space, the evolution of both layer I and layer II technologies within the defi ecosystem, derivatives trading and the evolution of new platforms to support broader institutionalized moneymaking opportunities.  A great conversation for anyone wh...

Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin is at an all-time high. New digital currency ETFs are coming to the market, broadening access to and increasing the legitimacy of an asset class that very few people truly understand. So we quickly caught up with our cryptocurrency expert Christopher Newhouse, DeFi Analyst at Cumberland Labs, to ask: what the heck is going on in crypto?? In this episode, we discuss not onl...

Send us Fan Mail Managing the wealth of the world's richest clientele is an exciting, prestigious, high stakes business.  We sat down with Tony Abbiati, CEO of SCS Financial, an ultra high net worth private wealth management firm to understand the business model of RIAs (Registered Investment Advisors) vs. banks and broker dealers, the demands and challenges of these clients, the path to breaking...