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are investment banks needed at all?

Not a financemo but They just seem like a nonessential middl...
Drab Tank
  10/27/18
who else would underwrite capital offerings? sounds like you...
slate big nursing home
  10/27/18
I'm not buying it. And show a little fucking respect, maybe ...
Drab Tank
  10/31/18
...
Brilliant Hideous Pisswyrm
  10/31/18
...
soul-stirring sick set mad cow disease
  10/31/18
...
electric swollen mental disorder theater
  10/31/18
We need to save naive grandmother-type F500 execs from getti...
posting in histrionic thread
  11/01/18
Why do they need underwriters? There's this trustless thing ...
racy light becky
  10/31/18
...
racy light becky
  10/31/18
What exactly do you think underwriters do and how would that...
Deep titillating double fault locale
  11/01/18
cr. my thoughts exactly
umber mad-dog skullcap church
  11/01/18
LOL
Drunken sienna persian house
  11/01/18
Good, this way you'll never see it coming
racy light becky
  11/01/18
When moon.
very tactful unhinged main people
  11/01/18
In most ways investment banks behave just like car dealershi...
posting in histrionic thread
  10/27/18
Best layman description in this thread.
emerald rough-skinned plaza giraffe
  10/31/18
(literally LTM)
soul-stirring sick set mad cow disease
  10/31/18
theyre called gas chambers
nyuug
  11/01/18
...
spruce stage
  11/01/18
for vanilla M&A or bond/equity deals, investment banks' ...
cobalt abode travel guidebook
  10/27/18
this makes sense. so how much could we shave off of the enti...
Drab Tank
  10/31/18
most of it. a lot of F500s (esp. F10s, etc.) now have their ...
cobalt abode travel guidebook
  10/31/18
*jjc detector goes off*
Dashing goal in life range
  10/31/18
...
Frisky Charismatic Pervert
  10/31/18
there's a nice legal framework built up that mandates their ...
Beady-eyed elite university
  10/31/18
...
Frisky Charismatic Pervert
  10/31/18
They have a lock-down on the M&A advisory and syndicatio...
Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad
  10/31/18
astonishingly AZN poast
Ungodly Personal Credit Line
  10/31/18
Lol OK. I guess we all live in a world where GCs of F500s...
Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad
  10/31/18
rook. risten...
Dashing goal in life range
  10/31/18
Hm extremely Asian poast again
soul-stirring sick set mad cow disease
  10/31/18
Xoxo 2018: Having to explain basic shit like specialization ...
Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad
  11/01/18
(Guy who still doesn’t get why his poast is so asian)
Deep titillating double fault locale
  11/01/18
xoxo 2018: "yer poast sounds asian" is the default...
Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad
  11/01/18
sup NYUUG. friendly reminder to the board that i am talki...
nyuug
  11/01/18
it's true that corps need to hire outside experts bc it's no...
Exciting point nowag
  11/20/18
What's to stop this company from growing cash reserves throu...
razzmatazz unholy internal respiration theatre
  11/01/18
Private investment = issuing some form of equity or debt = s...
Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad
  11/02/18
Pretty sure they all belong in gas chambers.
spruce stage
  11/01/18
for like 0.002% of shit
Diverse Property Haunted Graveyard
  11/01/18
Just have Jan from human resources structure the new secured...
House-broken fuchsia ladyboy reading party
  11/01/18
Most of the people who post on xoxo these days either never ...
Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad
  11/01/18
(guy desperate to make everyone believe that artificial conv...
racy light becky
  11/01/18
...
spruce stage
  11/01/18
Go back to Tulane, you're done here.
Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad
  11/02/18
(Xiuxiong "Frank" Chen)
Khaki Anal Hospital
  11/01/18
(Tulane grad working in a solo practice yet poasting on xoxo...
Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad
  11/02/18
...
Frisky Charismatic Pervert
  11/02/18
I agree with this take. It's true that it's not rocket sc...
Maniacal Field Lettuce
  11/01/18
For as long as investors have more money than they have idea...
Maniacal Field Lettuce
  11/01/18
one of the first deals i ever worked on involved selling the...
Exciting point nowag
  11/20/18
...
multi-colored glassy juggernaut
  11/20/18


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Date: October 27th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: Drab Tank

Not a financemo but They just seem like a nonessential middleman “advising” and collecting “fees” to me (kinda like some other profession I know).

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37108845)



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Date: October 27th, 2018 9:20 PM
Author: slate big nursing home

who else would underwrite capital offerings? sounds like your not just "not a financemo" but also perhaps a retard.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37108880)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:11 AM
Author: Drab Tank

I'm not buying it. And show a little fucking respect, maybe if you poast better I'll let you have a moniker (seriously, why the fuck dont you have a moniker?). Anyways, "underwrite capital offerings" I mean come on man. do we really need a million bankers soaking up insane amounts of rent to "underwrite capital offerings" fuck man,do you really believe this? Could we maybe get by just fine with say 10% of this entire industry?



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131330)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:14 AM
Author: Brilliant Hideous Pisswyrm



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131351)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:21 AM
Author: soul-stirring sick set mad cow disease



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131392)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:24 AM
Author: electric swollen mental disorder theater



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131410)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:26 AM
Author: posting in histrionic thread

We need to save naive grandmother-type F500 execs from getting exploited by hand-rubbing chad i-bankers in an openly competitive marketplace? I'm not seeing the problem with their services besides people believe they make too much money and don't really understand how or why so they assume they need to be shut down. If someone can come up with an alternative service that is cheaper and same or superior quality they will instantly win the marketplace.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136306)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: racy light becky

Why do they need underwriters? There's this trustless thing called blockchain and smart contracts

Ethereum's biggest potential use case is open finance, it's happening

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131619)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 1:44 PM
Author: racy light becky



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132556)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:17 AM
Author: Deep titillating double fault locale

What exactly do you think underwriters do and how would that be replaced by blockchain?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136263)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:20 AM
Author: umber mad-dog skullcap church

cr. my thoughts exactly

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136280)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: Drunken sienna persian house

LOL

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138241)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:02 PM
Author: racy light becky

Good, this way you'll never see it coming

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138822)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: very tactful unhinged main people

When moon.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138830)



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Date: October 27th, 2018 9:23 PM
Author: posting in histrionic thread

In most ways investment banks behave just like car dealerships or auction houses or realtors... they connect buyers and sellers of expensive assets and take a not-insubstantial chunk out of the transaction. People have suspected for a long time that there should be a way around these middlemen, but we haven't found it yet.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37108901)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:17 AM
Author: emerald rough-skinned plaza giraffe

Best layman description in this thread.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131369)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:22 AM
Author: soul-stirring sick set mad cow disease

(literally LTM)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131397)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:19 AM
Author: nyuug (Spaceporn = CUCKED for LIFE. I NEVER forget!)

theyre called gas chambers

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136273)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:19 AM
Author: spruce stage



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136278)



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Date: October 27th, 2018 9:24 PM
Author: cobalt abode travel guidebook

for vanilla M&A or bond/equity deals, investment banks' 'value add' is usually just providing cheap loans in the past (bulge brackets like citi, baml, etc.) that they leverage to run these sort of deals for the fees

elite boutique banks OTOH actually provide more valuable advice for corporate takeovers and such that birdbrained Chad CEOs cant figure out on their own

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37108902)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:12 AM
Author: Drab Tank

this makes sense. so how much could we shave off of the entire finance industry and still keep the same amount of professional expertise?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131338)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:48 AM
Author: cobalt abode travel guidebook

most of it. a lot of F500s (esp. F10s, etc.) now have their own in house corporate development teams (former bankers) to run most of the valuation analysis that banks provide. they usually get a bank and let them provide their 'advisory analysis' just to access their capital markets services to underwrite new debt/equity they need to buy X company or whatever

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131532)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:28 PM
Author: Dashing goal in life range

*jjc detector goes off*

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132079)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:12 AM
Author: Frisky Charismatic Pervert



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131336)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 11:01 AM
Author: Beady-eyed elite university

there's a nice legal framework built up that mandates their existence because pre-FDR companies were going buckwild selling all sorts of fraud securities to people. but yes as with most fields there is an incredible amount of waste, fraud, and abuse.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131612)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:03 PM
Author: Frisky Charismatic Pervert



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131941)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:25 PM
Author: Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad

They have a lock-down on the M&A advisory and syndication racket. So yes, they are needed.

Joe Blow from XYZ Inc. in Kansas isn't going to have access to investors, let alone undertake an offering of securities anywhere in compliance with all the different offering restrictions. They have to go through a broker.

M&A it's all about the brokering of deals, and again, bankers use their network to make this work and do valuation. It makes life a lot easier for corporates, but costs a ton in fees.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132060)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:27 PM
Author: Ungodly Personal Credit Line

astonishingly AZN poast

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132076)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:50 PM
Author: Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad

Lol OK.

I guess we all live in a world where GCs of F500s are stupid dumbasses who enjoy paying out of their asses for pointless inconsequential "service providers" like bankers when they could just do it "in house" at a fraction of the cost.

These corps are paying for IB because they are busy doing shit like making cars or selling GC shit to wagecucks like you, and don't have the time or capability to market to pension funds located halfway around the world who may not even speak English or find a buyer for their shit subsidiary located in OshKosh Oklahoma. It's just the way it is.

The alternative is to hire a whole lot more people which will end up being more expensive in the long run and create a bunch of headaches because you have to do BS training and logistics for these new drones you just hired and pay for their healthcare and shit. Bankers you just use and dump once they've done their job.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132196)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 1:11 PM
Author: Dashing goal in life range

rook. risten...

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132338)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 1:33 PM
Author: soul-stirring sick set mad cow disease

Hm extremely Asian poast again

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132463)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:15 AM
Author: Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad

Xoxo 2018: Having to explain basic shit like specialization of labor to literal retards.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136251)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:20 AM
Author: Deep titillating double fault locale

(Guy who still doesn’t get why his poast is so asian)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136282)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 11:00 AM
Author: Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad

xoxo 2018: "yer poast sounds asian" is the default insult

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138141)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:20 AM
Author: nyuug (Spaceporn = CUCKED for LIFE. I NEVER forget!)

sup NYUUG.

friendly reminder to the board that i am talking to myself right now

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136279)



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Date: November 20th, 2018 2:57 AM
Author: Exciting point nowag

it's true that corps need to hire outside experts bc it's not economical to have the necessary expertise in-house. it's also true that no corp is going to operate its own bond desks. lol at ford or caesar's or something directly selling securities to investors.

otoh IBs are no smarter than anyone else when out of their wheelhouse -- look at how bad they fucked up on CDO valuation and trading, causing ITE. it's reasonable to ask why IBs have such wild comp and fees; presumably you can run an advanced economy without paying howie hubler $25m to lose $9b.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37268539)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 6:36 PM
Author: razzmatazz unholy internal respiration theatre

What's to stop this company from growing cash reserves through private investment until cash flow positive, then doing a Spotify type direct listing to access the capital markets?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37140906)



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Date: November 2nd, 2018 12:04 AM
Author: Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad

Private investment = issuing some form of equity or debt = securitie = pwnd.

Issuers can't directly access capital markets without an intermediary, unless they want to be directly subject to all sorts of crazy regulations and lawsuits.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37142723)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:18 AM
Author: spruce stage

Pretty sure they all belong in gas chambers.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136269)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:27 AM
Author: Diverse Property Haunted Graveyard

for like 0.002% of shit

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136314)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:28 AM
Author: House-broken fuchsia ladyboy reading party

Just have Jan from human resources structure the new secured airplane leasing offering and draft all the required disclosure documents. She's sharp - I'm sure she'll figure it out if we all pitch in and get her a Dunkin gift card!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136317)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad

Most of the people who post on xoxo these days either never went to law school or went to some TTT and never worked biglaw so we have retarded threads like this.

"bbbbut it's just copy and paste!" said the pea brain.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138231)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: racy light becky

(guy desperate to make everyone believe that artificial convolution makes him essential)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138832)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: spruce stage



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138834)



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Date: November 2nd, 2018 12:05 AM
Author: Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad

Go back to Tulane, you're done here.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37142726)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:10 PM
Author: Khaki Anal Hospital

(Xiuxiong "Frank" Chen)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138862)



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Date: November 2nd, 2018 12:05 AM
Author: Rusted Pontificating Organic Girlfriend Chad

(Tulane grad working in a solo practice yet poasting on xoxo)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37142731)



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Date: November 2nd, 2018 2:54 PM
Author: Frisky Charismatic Pervert



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37145677)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:17 PM
Author: Maniacal Field Lettuce

I agree with this take.

It's true that it's not rocket science, but the "basic" shit that good bankers can do they can do so fucking fast it will make your head spin.

I suspect the reason many "scholarly" types don't get this is because they don't understand the significant portion of the world that is run by "numbers" people.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138902)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:08 PM
Author: Maniacal Field Lettuce

For as long as investors have more money than they have ideas on how to spend it, there will be men to sell them those ideas.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138858)



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Date: November 20th, 2018 3:00 AM
Author: Exciting point nowag

one of the first deals i ever worked on involved selling the residual on an auto ABS deal to PE investors, HFs and a teacher's union in a poor southern state. that's when i learned that some ppl need to make a return, aren't very sophisticated, and will invest in assets they don't understand, not once, but every day for their entire careers. it's a fucked up world.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37268544)



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Date: November 20th, 2018 3:01 AM
Author: multi-colored glassy juggernaut



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37268547)