Investment banking, private equity, asset management and corporate finance — hand-placed across four capitals. We match students with deal teams, investment desks and family-office principals in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Bangkok, then handle the visa, the housing and the introductions.
Asia holds the largest pools of private capital outside North America, and the deals that move them are signed from a handful of desks across four cities. A placement here puts a finance student inside one of those rooms — not on a rotation, but in a junior chair on a live mandate.
We place fellows across the working span of the field: investment banking, private equity and venture capital, asset and wealth management, and corporate finance inside operating companies. Every seat is sourced privately, after a conversation about what a fellow can model and what they want to learn next.
The teams we work with are deliberately small. Fellows build the model, sit in on the diligence, mark up the IC memo, and watch the deal close — or fall through — and leave with a reference from the person who signed it.
What a fellow does not do is paper-process for a quarter. The placement is built around a transaction or a position — sized to a fellow, scoped to be delivered, and reviewed by the principal who owns the outcome.
A finance major is welcome but not required. We have placed mathematicians, lawyers, philosophers and engineers — anyone whose thinking holds together under the scrutiny of a partner.
What the office looks for is precision and judgement. The fifteen-minute call is where we find that — not a transcript or a GPA.
Five archetypes we source against. Every actual seat is hand-matched to a fellow after the introductory call — these describe the shape of the work, not a fixed opening.
A seat on a live mandate inside a boutique or a regional house — pitches, models, diligence, and the late-night memo that lands in a managing director's inbox by morning.
Inside an investment team — sourcing, screening, building the model, drafting the IC paper. Fellows watch deals get done and, as often, get killed.
A junior chair on a portfolio team — research, position work, and the discipline of writing a thesis sharp enough to survive the next quarter.
Treasury, FP&A, and the in-house deal work of a regional company — close to where the cash actually moves.
A seat alongside the principal of a single-family office — direct investments, fund commitments, and the unwritten reasoning that governs a long-held portfolio.
Something else in mind?
Tell the office on the call. Finance placements are scoped to the fellow, not the other way round.
The same field reads differently in each city. Where a fellow is placed depends on the work they want and the team that fits them.
The deal capital of the region. Strongest for fellows aimed at investment banking, the IPO desks of the big houses, and the hedge funds that price Asia from a single floor. The pace is unsentimental.
China's onshore capital market — domestic asset managers, RMB funds, and the corporate-finance desks of companies that list in Hong Kong or New York. A different rulebook, and the most consequential one in the region.
The wealth-management and family-office capital of Asia. Where the largest private fortunes in the region are run, and where a fellow can sit two seats from a principal.
A market still being built — boutique advisory, regional private equity, and the in-house finance arms of family conglomerates. Best for a fellow who wants to see how a market matures while sitting inside it.
I came in expecting to format decks. By week three I was building the operating model for a live mandate — and the committee priced the deal off my numbers. No classroom does that.