CIBS - Cambridge Investment Banking Society

CIBS Research Group is a subdivision of the Cambridge Investment Banking Society dedicated to running an analyst programme that gives an invaluable opportunity to conduct sector research (in Michaelmas Term) and propose a M&A transaction (in Lent Term).

This year, the CIBS Research group will write research reports on the following sectors: Technology, Media, & Telecom, Consumer & Retail, Industrials, Natural Resources, Healthcare, FIG & FinTech, Real Estate, and Business Services. Each sector will be covered by a team of 4 to 5 students — 1 Coverage Head and 3-4 Research Analysts.

As part of the programme, analysts will be invited to exclusive training sessions conducted by CIBS members with internship experience at investment banking/private equity firms, with sessions including:

Value companies using a DCF analysis

Build a meaningful set of trading and transaction comps, and

Analyse M&A transactions with accretion/dilution models

In past years, the Research Group has written about all topics related to commercial awareness, covering categories from M&A transactions to capital market trends to macroeconomic news and more.

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