When you reflect on your banking career — the thousands of pitch books, the countless analyses, iterations, scenarios, recommendations, and timetables — the gnawing question is whether you ever really added any value. Were you a strategic advisor and master tactician or just a Willy Loman with more air miles?

The investment bank compensation process is as much ritual as reckoning — a yearly exercise in hope, dread, and, for some, quiet fury. But while everyone’s sweats over their number, few stop to ask how it’s calculated. Here’s a blow-by-blow breakdown of what really happens behind closed doors

If bankers face tough rules over personal investments, shouldn’t politicians too?

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