If you’re one of the 2-4% of applicants to secure an entry level job at a bulge bracket investment bank, would you leave less than 2 years into your career for a tiny boutique or private equity firm? While moving from investment banking into buy-side after a couple of years is a well-trodden career path, analysts making the move this year have increasingly targeted investment roles in smaller firms.

• Daniel Yu, an investment banking analyst in JPMorgan’s technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) team in London, just joined Goldacre Partners, a TMT-focused advisory firm, as a venture capitalist investment analyst. 

• Shuang Zheng, a 2^nd year analyst at JPMorgan in London, and Alessia Negri, a 3^rd year analyst on Morgan Stanley’s consumer and retail investment banking team, both joined ZZ Capital Int'l in November. ZZ is building its investment management business but remains relatively tiny with just $210K revenues generated in Q2 of 2016.

• Jaroslav Valiukevic, a former Morgan Stanley analyst, joined small special situations PE firm Novator Partners in October and Thomas Sineau, who worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank, was hired by tech investment firm REV.