<p>What Business Profession makes the most money?</p>
<p>Let's talk about Investment Banking, since its our favorite pastime on CC.</p>
<p>Investment banking oh yeah...ops. I think I just had an orgasm. BB for life.</p>
<p>When I read the title of the thread I was like how many posts can this go without saying investment banking. I wonder how long it'll be before we start talking about how they live such oppressive unfulfilling lives surrounded by hiding from their bosses while they try to eat and read the newspaper at the job.</p>
<p>Management Consulting's pretty good. Trading is really good. Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, and Private Equity have really good pay. There, I didn't talk about the forbidden 17-letter word.</p>
<p>Meh, Ibankers don't make the most money</p>
<p>successful entrepreneurs do.</p>
<p>^^yea key word in that sentence is SUCCESSFUL entrepreneurs. your comparing someone who owns their business and someone that works for someone else. I think the original poster was talking about which job pays the most, in which case the answer is Ibankers, traders, consultants, venture capitalists, hedge fund managers etc.</p>
<p>PE and hedge funds no doubt.</p>
<p>Corporatefinance --> Investment banking oh yeah...ops. I think I just had an orgasm. BB for life. </p>
<p>Haha, you guys are too funny.</p>
<p>Initially, investmen banks do without a doubt
consulting earns a lot too initially, but not as much as ibanking
going to a corporation will earn you less as you will be in the long haul toward a lot of money</p>
<p>what should i study to get into hedgefunds?</p>
<p>Don't you have to have money to be a Venture Capitalist? Or does a Venture Capitalist just collect money from rich people for investment into companies?</p>
<p>I believe its a mixture of both. I think some of the higher up people would be individuals with a lot of money but generally it's just a lot of people from former professions.</p>
<p>yea isnt it kinda the same thing to be a sucessfull real estate developer / investor? You really need money to make it work, but I guess you can borow from banks and other people right?</p>
<p>that would be an LP, limited partnership. I hope to invest in poperty in a 4 or 5 years, hoping for the bottom of a cycle and would be setting up investors with partial liaility up to the amount that they invested, thus giving the name to "limited"</p>
<p>and highest paid in finance would be 2 hedge fund traders that made over a billion dollars last year due to how well energy did</p>
<p>T.Boone did well because of energy. Stevie just simply makes abnoxious amounts of money in everything.</p>
<p>^Traders can make an infinite salary, so they win. I-Bankers that are in Sales and trading after being in the associate level for 4 or so years can bring in seven figure salaries...The reason why I am saying this is because its a lot more realistic. BB for life. Boner.</p>