A day in the life of 60 different finance professionals across 25+ years
What do financial services professionals do all day? It’s a good question. It’s one that we’ve asked ourselves often over the last 25+ years. More importantly, it’s question that we’ve asked a lot of people working in finance.
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Every year, we endeavour to improve our knowledge base of Day in The Life articles. These are articles with a fun, simple aim: to follow around a financial services professional from the moment they wake up to the moment they fall asleep. We wanted to know the answer to a simple question; what is it really like to work in a bank?
We’ve listed all our day in the lives here for you, from 2001 to 2026, featuring companies as diverse as Goldman Sachs, Citadel, Blackstone, and Bain & Co.; our 25-year knowledge bank of lived financial services experience. What's it really like to work in financial services? Like this.
July 2026 - A day in the life of a quantitative researcher at Citadel
July 2026 - A day in the life of a banking & capital markets auditor at Deloitte
May 2026 - What's a hedge fund analyst? A day in the life of an equities analyst at Citadel
October 2024 - A day in the life of an applied AI engineer at hedge fund Balyasny
August 2024 - What does a hedge fund analyst do? A day in the life of an associate in the Point72 Academy Investment Analyst Program
July 2024 - What's it really like to work in M&A? A day in the life of a junior M&A banker
July 2024 - A day in the life of a private equity associate at KKR
June 2024 - A day in the life of the Deutsche Bank associate who reflects before work and dances after
June 2024 - What does a trader do at Citadel Securities? This is the life of an MIT graduate in New York City
May 2024 - What's a quant researcher? The life of a quant researcher at Citadel Securities in Miami
May 2024 - What is working in fintech like? A day in the life of a Bolt product director
April 2024 - What's it like to work for Blackstone? A day in the life of a real estate junior
June 2023 - A day in the life of a fintech intern
September 2022 - Day in the life, Karl Maguire, investment settlements services, State Street
September 2022 - Day in the life, Pam Chang, analyst, Citadel Global Equities, Chicago
August 2022 - Day in the life, Carmen Bereincua, debt capital markets syndicate, Citi
August 2022 - A day in the life of a Blackstone real estate associate
August 2022 - Day in the life, Fiona Wharton, domain architect, UBS Chief Digital and Information Office
July 2022 - Citadel Securities: A day in the Life, Ruizhou Ding, quantitative research team
July 2022 - Day in the life, senior associate, Rothschild, New York
July 2022 - Day in the Life, Sophia Mastrell, equity derivatives trading, Goldman Sachs, Paris
July 2022 - Day in the Life, Geraint Harcombe, technology team, Citadel Securities, London
June 2022 - A day in the life of a senior associate at Blackstone
June 2022 - A day in the life of an oil analyst
May 2022 - An honest day in the life of a sell-side equity analyst
(We had an eight-year Day in The Life hiatus during this period.)
October 2014 - A (long) day in the life of a Goldman Sachs analyst
September 2014 - Breadstick-Gate: A day in the life of a salty activist hedge fund analyst
March 2014 - Day in the life of a consultant at Bain & Company
October 2013 - A day in the life of a middle-market investment banker
September 2013 - Brutally Honest Day in the Life of a Sell-Side Trader
May 2012 - Day in the Life: Investment banking analyst
April 2012 - Day in the Life of an Investment Banking Analyst
June 2007 - M&A Attorney: A Day in the Life
January 2007 - Global Currency Strategist: Day in the Life
September 2006 - Day in the Life: Hedge Fund Relationship Director, UBS
December 2004 - Day in the Life: Investment banking head, Mediobanca
May 2004 - Day in the Life: Lucy Kilroy, equity sales analyst
March 2004 - Day in the Life: Michel Debiche, hedge fund founder
November 2003 - Day in the Life: Karen Olney, equity market strategist
October 2003 - Day in the Life: Gary Goldstein, New York headhunter
August 2003 - Day in the Life: Alex Plavsic, head of fraud investigation services
March 2003 - Day in the Life: Benjamin Taieb, foreign exchange options trader
March 2003 - Day in the Life: Christian Seyboth, graduate trainee
March 2003 - Day in the Life: Enrica Marocco, corporate finance associate
February 2003 - Day in the life: Olaf Van Tuijl, investment banking analyst
February 2003 - Day In The Life: Joanna Alves, fixed income sales graduate trainee
February 2003 - Day in the Life: Nick Donovan, foreign exchange salesman
January 2003 - Day in the Life: Jens Tonn, director of private equity firm
January 2003 - Day in the Life: Cindy Ferrara, head of equity derivative hedge fund sales
December 2002 - Day in the Life: Caryn Solomon, head of organisational development
October 2002 - Day in the Life: Peter Burditt, career coach to senior executives
June 2002 - Day in the Life: Sally Nelson, Human Resources Director
May 2002 - Day in the Life: Henrietta Royle, chief executive of BOOST
May 2002 - Day in the Life: Howard Davies, head of the FSA
April 2002 - Day in the Life: Agnes Nahum, partner, private equity firm
December 2001 - Day in the Life: Gilles Collombin, Corporate Finance director
October 2001 - A Day in the Life: Adam Law, UK Economist
September 2001 - Day in the Life: Charlie Watford, investment bank graduate trainee
May 2001 - A Day in the Life: Chris Smart, technology venture capitalist
February 2001 - Day in the Life: Stephan Muller, e-commerce chief
December 2000 - Day in the Life: Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad, credit trade head
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