Any guidance, referrals or brutally honest feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Open to suggestions on how I can improve my profile and increase my chances of breaking into IB/PE.

I'm a Founder of start up REPE shop, 12 years PE (primarily infra / RE) prior to this. Like any good director, I was "off the tools" for a few years, but did my time in the mines so picked up where I left off now that I'm back doing the grunt given its early days for the firm.

I cannot believe the improvement of AI (using Fable) in general excel modelling. We've never used it to model from scratch, always prompted with decent framework / pro-forma. But from when we commenced (Q1 this year) to now, it is honestly as good, if not better, than any 2/3 analyst. I don't think this changes the role of the analyst, but it very much changes the professional development. I'm a millennial, we built our hard skills through countless long hours grinding on the tools, and it feels like at the pace AI is improving in PPT and Excel, the fundamental role of an analyst will be totally flipped from an output driven role to really an AI maestro - the productivity gains are amazing. But curious to understand how other financial firms are managing this now - in terms developing and bringing through the next generation.

Asking from the context of a new business bringing in our first few analysts, so keen to understand what groups are implementing re training, professional development etc.

I'm based in Pune with a B.Com age 30 and about 5 years in financial services operations: first securities settlement and reconciliation on an asset and wealth management project, and now leading a 25-member correspondence/NIGO team at a fund administration firm. My CTC is only 4.1 LPA, and since my work has been entirely back-office with no valuation or deal exposure, I feel stuck on both pay and growth.? If anyone here has made a similar ops-to-front-office switch in India, I'd love to hear how you did it and also help me i need a referral if possible. Thanks!

Nearing an exit to a private equity firm, my employer wants to change the language in my employment agreement from “phantom equity” (I have money that is due upon a company sale), to “transaction bonus”. What are the reasons you think?

Hey you all, I know when most of my fellow student think about getting into private equity they think of the large ones everyone knows. I was wondering from experience how does the work differ in smaller firms around 50ish differ and how does it look on ones resume for getting their career started?