Brickfield Consultants Ltd, a fund finance staffing agency focused on the growing fund finance market, has produced the highly-anticipated fund finance banker’s compensation and hiring benchmarking survey report, available here.
The U.S. and European report touches on all compensation levels as a whole in USD, covering managing directors (non-group heads), directors, VPs, associates and analysts. It highlights the median compensation levels along with the lows and highs of each position. It also identifies the large disparity between pay in the industry and benchmarks the salary point to fit within the top 25% of the industry. In addition to compensation, the report identifies the common fund finance team size and the hiring appetite for the market.
We estimate that the industry has around 60 key banks actively participating in the market, with more on the rise. We were able to capture 60% of the market, which is the basis of this report.