Guggenheim Securities
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Guggenheim Securities provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and financing services. Recent clients include IBM, Disney, Pfizer, and Verizon. The firm's interns get a lot of responsibility, live deal experience, and experience across various industries and products. Even the most junior bankers get significant access to senior leadership and clients.
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Guggenheim Securities is looking for intellectually curious, hardworking, personable, positive self-starters who are eager to learn and have strong technical knowledge. For students, the firm runs a very valuable internship program. Interns get hands-on experience on live deals, great training, and excellent mentoring and networking opportunities. For its full-time junior bankers, Guggenheim offers extensive growth and learning opportunities, including significant early responsibility on live transactions, client exposure, great training and mentoring, and an apprenticeship culture that places an emphasis on developing and cultivating junior bankers.
Although hours can be long and unpredictable and it can be difficult to use all your vacation time, Guggenheim’s s...
About the Company
Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets arm of Guggenheim Partners, which employs more than 2,400 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chicago and New York. Guggenheim Securities, which employs more than 1,100 professionals, provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and financing services. Recent advisory clients include Jersey Mike’s, IBM, The Walt Disney Company, Paramount, Pfizer, Blackstone, Thomson Reuters, Array Technologies, and Lucid Group.
Since its founding, Guggenheim Securities has advised on more than $1.6 trillion worth of announced M&A transactions and over $440 billion in debt and equity financing. In addition to investment banking services, Guggenheim Partners offers investment management and investment advisory services. It has more than $335 billion in assets under ma...
Employee Reviews
- “There is an appreciation for hard work and empathy when working longer hours enough to ensure make up for it with some downtime. There is also an open discussion about morning routines, allowing employees to go to the gym, for example, at a reasonable hour. And social engagements are encouraged for team bonding. However, there is the potential that you have to work during holidays and not being able to rollover vacation.”
- “Our time is valued and there’s no ‘busy work.’ Seniors are tho...
Getting Hired Here
- “Guggenheim relies on a Super Day to interview, and in order to receive an offer for a Super Day interview, it’s important top extensively network with current employees to show interest and stand out. The ideal candidate is very smart technically but more importantly friendly, positive, and eager to learn. Guggenheim places emphasis on how well a candidate would be able to thrive in the IB environment and learn from older analysts vs. those that already know everything there is to know about finance.”<...
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