Investment Management (Leveraged Finance Team) Review
at M&G plc
Internship (1 Month+)
Finance
London
Review Submitted: August 2023
Overall Rating
4.9 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
5/5
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.5/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- Producing minutes for morning meetings
- Sitting in on live deals and completing historic financials
- Dialling into lender calls
- Giving trade ideas
- Producing comps tables
- Sitting in on live deals and completing historic financials
- Dialling into lender calls
- Giving trade ideas
- Producing comps tables
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- A lot of responsibility
- Had to give trade ideas / present to the whole team
- Had to give trade ideas / present to the whole team
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
5/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Developed / learned:
- Networking
- Modelling
- Syndication process
- Analysing the markets
- Networking
- Modelling
- Syndication process
- Analysing the markets
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
5/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
5/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- Lots of support
- Had a dedicated buddy for any help / questions I had
- Manager was very open to help for both work and non-work things
- Several trainings to help boost knowledge
- Had a dedicated buddy for any help / questions I had
- Manager was very open to help for both work and non-work things
- Several trainings to help boost knowledge
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
5/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
5/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- Everyone is very friendly and relaxed
- Easy to approach everyone on the team
- Easy to schedule coffee chats outside of the team too
- Easy to approach everyone on the team
- Easy to schedule coffee chats outside of the team too
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
3/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Really enjoyed it
- Had so much responsibility and was able to add value to the team
- Learned a lot of invaluable information
- Had so much responsibility and was able to add value to the team
- Learned a lot of invaluable information
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at M&G plc
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend M&G plc to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to M&G plc
- To know that M&G plc is welcoming of both financial / non - financial backgrounds
- To ensure that you have drive and passion to do well (regardless of technical skills)
- To ensure that you have drive and passion to do well (regardless of technical skills)
