Moelis Deck
Why did Ken Moelis leave UBS to start an independent firm? Tell the story the way an interviewer wants to hear it.
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The commonly told version: as president of UBS Investment Bank, Moelis grew frustrated with the constraints of a balance-sheet-driven universal bank — advice increasingly bundled with lending and…
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