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Investment Banker (475 words) |
 | Personal and strategic skills are vital to investment bankers as well, for they serve as strategists for their clients, helping them develop their financial plans as well as implement them. |
 | Investment bankers spend large amounts of time traveling, to pitch ideas to prospective and current clients or to examine the facilities of companies being purchased by their clients. |
 | Most commonly, investment bankers who leave the profession go on to financial jobs in-house with a client of their former banking firm, as financial officers and analysts. |
| investment banker - definition of investment banker in Encyclopedia (647 words) |
 | Investment banks can invest their own money directly into a company, project, etc., as a direct investment for which they carry the full risk (known as merchant banking). |
 | An investment bank can raise money for a corporation from a hedge fund that is dedicated to making direct investments in corporations, which is usually referred to as venture capital, or as loans with collateral as security to reduce risk. |
 | Historically, many investment banks seeking to be allowed to underwrite a company's IPO or debt offering have said to that company that they would tell their research division to rate that company a buy in order to convince them to do a deal. |