Here is a selection of our Odyssey Buyside Newsletters. It’s a quarterly piece designed for our clients to share perspectives on hiring trends, compensation, and the market for talent. If you’d like to engage with us about our Newsletter, or any other topic related to recruiting, feel free to contact us.
On-Cycle Recruiting Recap
Private Equity Investment Professionals’ Growing Interest in Public Investing Roles
2026 Marketing & Investor Relations Outlook
The Investing Talent AI Story Goes Beyond the Headlines
AI at Work: By the Numbers
A Playbook for Talent Success in the Era of Alternative Investment Firm Consolidation
The Biggest Hiring Mistakes in 2025 – And How To Fix Them
Marketing & Investor Relations Outlook for 2025
Odyssey’s Compensation Reports
How Has Market Volatility in 2025 Affected Investment Professional Hiring?
Odyssey 2025 Compensation Reports
Odyssey’s Annual Investment Banking Analyst Survey: Inside the Class of 2025
Despite On-Cycle Being in Flux, Bankers’ Interest in Buyside Recruiting Hasn’t Dropped
The Rise of Private Equity Secondaries and What it Means for Talent
Why H-1B Shake-Ups are Unlikely to Move the Needle for Investment Hiring
Banking Analysts Embrace On-Cycle 2.0: A Holiday Gift of Private Equity Opportunities
Non-Compete Legislation Update
Diminished Rewards: The Wall Street Bonus Downturn
Non-Compete Legislation Update
Gen Z in Finance: Going Against the Grain
Odyssey’s Annual Investment Banking Analyst Survey
Non-Compete Legislation Update
2024: Year in Review
Home for the Holidays…? Latest Return-to-Office Mandates
Year-End Compensation
Hiring Heatwave To Cool?
The Evolution of Private Equity On-Cycle Recruiting
The Growing Strength of Multi-Manager Hedge Funds
Summer Plans? The Rise of the “Workcation”
2023 On-Cycle Recruiting Update
Back to the Office? The Status of Remote Work
Non-Compete Agreements & Proposed Legislative Changes
2023 Year-End Compensation Expectations
Odyssey’s 2023 Survey of 1st Year Investment Banking Analysts
Integration of Capital Markets within Private Equity
Private Equity: Compensation, Retention, and Enhancing Firm Culture
Odyssey’s 2021 Survey of 1st Year Investment Banking Analysts: Demographics, Post-Banking Timing, Technical Training, and Career Preferences.
What’s Hot in Private Equity Hiring in 2022
Strategies to Attract and Retain Investment Talent in 2022
Preliminary Results of Odyssey’s 2022 Private Equity Survey
Is the Hiring Heatwave Set to Continue?
Implications for Compensation Back to the Office?
The Status of Remote Work
Is the Hiring Heatwave Set to Continue?
Implications for Compensation Back to the Office?
The Status of Remote Work
Diversity across Financial Services: Representation, compensation and career switching within Equity Research.
The Evolution of ESG: The latest thinking in the tradeoff between making profits and making a difference.
Is Zoom Interviewing Here to Stay?: A look into the hiring practices of the future
The Rise and Rise of Wall Street South?: How talent constraints may counteract a New York exodus to Florida
Insights from Odysse’s Private Equity Compensation Report 2021
Connections between Firm Loyalty and Remote Working
The Evolving Roles of Talent Partners
Current Compensation Trends – Up, Up & Away
Social Media on Wall Street
Private Equity’s Social Media Presence
Best Practices in Social Media
Odyssey’s Public Markets
Compensation Survey: Perspectives from the investment professionals
Views on Diversity: Separate from the conversations HR and CIOs are having, how do public markets investors view diversity initiatives and the role of women in the industry?
Public Investment’s Private Side: How hedge funds are diversifying into private equity
Special Covid-19 Edition
The Risks/Rewards of Returning to the Office?
How are Return Decisions Being Made?
Who Wants to WFH?
How Productive are We Really?
Commuting in a Post-COVID World
How Tech Advances May Slow Our Return to the Office?
How Will the Office Be Different?
What to Do with Summer Internships?
With COVID-19 Testing, Will We Return to Normal?
What Will Be the Lasting Cultural Impact?
Trends and Insights
Working from Home: Worrying from HR – The pace of returning to the office and the implications for employers and employees
Diversity & Inclusion: Cultural Change on Wall Street – Where the investment management industry stands at this cultural moment, and the steps it is taking
Odyssey’s Compensation Reports 2020 – Private Equity and Private Credit
Trends and Insights
Odyssey’s 2020 Survey of 1st year IB Analysts: Views on Careers, On-Cycle Recruiting and MBAs
Credit Sector: Review of a Tumultuous 2020, and a Look Ahead
Election 2020: How Outcomes may affect Investment Strategies, Performance and Hiring
Formalizing Talent Management Programs How firms are getting organized to win.
Early Bird Gets the Worm Why financial services recruiting deadlines are shifting up.
How Firms View Interview Basics What Interviewing 101 means these days.
Structured Equity Why it’s the current talk of the town.
2019 Compensation Data How did hedge fund investment
professionals actually fare at year-end?
Managing Digital Profiles How investment firms are navigating Social Media
Infrastructure Investing 2.0 An old-fashioned industry evolves
Life After Hedge Funds What comes next for former investment professionals
The Diversity Push How the Investment Community is Embracing and Creating Change
Closing Top-Tier Candidates Out with the old, in with the new
Bringing on International Talent Ups and downs in the world of Visas
Getting on the Case Trends in the Interview Case Study the town.
Odyssey’s 2019 Survey of 1st year IB Analysts: Views on MegaFunds, MBAs and On-Cycle Recruiting
The Draw of the Multi-Managers: How top hedge fund investment professionals are re-evaluating their options
Private Credit Analyst Recruiting: Going back to college
Gazing Back and Peering Forward | Fund Marketing Under the spotlight | The Brave New World of Private Equity | Seeding Models Options for managers | Evolution of the Interview Process
2017 Hedge Fund Bonus Numbers are in | The Art of Thinking Independently Together | Hiring non-U.S. Employees | The Keys to Differentiation for Private Credit | Landing Your Top Choice Candidate
2018 Hedge Fund Compensation Report | When a Guarantee isn’t Guaranteed | Doing Well by Doing Good | PE Associate Programs | Trends in Private Markets
2018 Compensation Expectations Survey – How confident are HF, PE and Private Credit analysts? | MBA Recruitment – The changing nature of Business School hiring | NYC’s Compensation Law One year in | Growing Private Market Funds – Ways to scale AUM
2016 Alternative Asset Year-End Review | Class of 2016 Banking Survey | Growth Equity’s Growth Spurt | Mentorship On Wall Street | Private Credit Playing Its Trump Card
Year-End Hedge Fund Bonus Numbers are in | Deferred Compensation | Changes in Wall Street Culture | Capital Markets teams in Private Equity | Reading Resumes
Where are the Wonder Women? | Show Me the Money? | Can Too Much Capital be a Problem? | Get Me Out of Here! | Investing in an Investment Firm?
The Bulls are Back | NY Salary History Ban Law | Bringing Talent into Private Equity | Second Half Hiring Pros and cons | Building a Data Science Capability
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