Students get the inside track on financial careers
Two UEA graduates returned to their old stamping ground to tell current students of how they achieved success in their differing financial careers and both demonstrated what an exciting and fulfilling career it could be.
Paul Everitt set up Fund Corporation as he preferred to work for himself rather than be an employee.
As part of the university's Inside Business programme, he gave students a full insight into how different funds operated, the services they offered and the benefits of investing through trusts offshore.
After studying economics at the UEA in 1986-89, Paul trained as a chartered accountant with Stoy Hayward (now BDO) in London. He spent two years working in the corporate finance department of PricewaterhouseCoopers before moving to Guernsey in 1998 and specialising in fund administration.
Now he is Managing Director of Fund Corporation which specialises in investment administration, principally in the alternative asset classes (e.g. private equity, real estate and hedge funds). He has worked on a wide range of fund structures and acted on numerous fund boards, most notably for Permira, EQT and Rutley Capital Partners.
Nick Green, now with Crédit Agricole, began his working life as an oil broker but switched to banking because he thought it was more interesting – and has since spent 20 years in the sector both in the UK and internationally.
Nick, who has a Bachelors Degree in economics, politics and philosophy from the UEA, was asked by students if it was harder to get a job nowadays. He wasn't sure but pointed out that when he joined HSBC, 3,000 people had applied for the 28 jobs available.
He began as an HSBC trainee in 1989, starting in Hong Kong followed by roles in Vancouver, Bahrain, Oman, New York, South Korea, London, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Paris. In 2006, he returned to the UK to join Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank where he still works.
His array of roles has included retail and corporate banking, trade finance, treasury management, bond trading, equity capital markets and the management of capital markets businesses covering foreign exchange, fixed income and derivatives trading and sales, balance sheet management, bond origination, equity broking, and corporate finance and electronic trading.
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