Welcome back everyone!

I haven’t done a Buyside Hub specific update in a bit. We recently released our annual Investment Banking Compensation Report so I figured now is a good time to update on our progress:

It’s a Compensation Analytics, Culture Insights, and Recruiting Platform I started back in early 2025. The value prop is pretty straight forward: Compensation transparency beyond the Investment Banking Analyst level has never been very good so the community has collectively loaded the platform with Private Equity, Credit, and Buyside data points that effectively benchmark competitive compensation levels all across the U.S.

The culture insights element is extremely important too. As someone who didn’t have enough of a network to know if “hey is this a good fund to work for” or “how bad are the hours, etc.” providing looks into firm culture, as well as what the typical interview process looks like, can really sharpen your decision-making as a candidate.

Since going live, we have launched extremely exhaustive compensation reports including last week’s Investment Banking Compensation Report and last March’s Annual Compensation Report, which went through PE, Credit, IB, Hedge Fund, and other Buyside and Sell Side roles.

Mind you, the platform is updated every single day and structured so you can build out the most relevant comparables to what you should be earning.

This then parlays extremely well into helping professionals get connected to new roles:

It’s a really important mission of mine because I want to spearhead helping folks land finance jobs at scale.

Over the past year, this has become more important in ways I couldn’t have imagined. First, there’s a lot of anxiety about AI and what that does to the Analyst/Associate role. Any efforts I can take to alleviate those worries is a positive. I do have a semi-positive view and keep hearing rave reviews about top-tier talent, so I firmly believe the top professionals will be fine with AI and turbocharge their workflows with it. Secondly, the amount of anecdotes I hear where candidates are submitting AI-generated case studies is insane. The fact that so many candidates are getting AI pilled in the wrong way means employers need to use more niche services to really ensure they’re getting to those top-tier folks. If you have any nightmare anecdotes like that, drop me a reply, always love hearing this type of stuff…

When Companies let us take the wheel, roles can really blow up too. How? Just look at this example of a role we helped source applicants for. One Post, 615k views:

The network effects and distribution we have can be quite powerful.

Easy, just reply to this email - it’s [email protected] too.

We work with both Buyside managers and Banks in terms of helping them find folks and post on the job board.

If you take part in any hiring processes, hit our line, we’d love to help.

A lot.

We are working on more and more slicing and dicing of data to get more minute details for professionals to benchmark their comp. We’re heads down there but expect an update soon.

A lot of the existing work though, is to continue to let the data snowball into more and more helpful insights so you get a better sense of how much you should be getting paid.

Again, a lot.

The Wall Street Rollup newsletter is growing quite rapidly. Parlaying my time in the private markets, we’ve been leveraging The Wall Street Rollup as a platform to acquire other finance newsletters. I wrote up a big piece about it in September 2025, but since then I’ve completed a couple more tuck-in acquisitions, plus a transformative deal that doubled the newsletter to 200k+ folks.

I think there’s more room to run there. We are a short-form news aggregator that I think wins out in the long haul.

What’s always a bummer about newsletters is the unsubscribes - but I get that on social media with unfollows too. If you previously unsubscribed to The Wall Street Rollup, you should join again here - would love to have you back.

We Added our Investment Banking Product to HYH Premium.

This was a big update to our career resources - we have added a 246-page Investment Banking recruiting guide to HYH Premium to further strengthen the value prop for investment professionals and future investment bankers. We also have a lot of our restructuring content behind the HYH Premium wall.

This product coupled with the existing materials is robust value if you end up pursuing a career in a front office role. That’s why 650+ people have upgraded and why you should too:

Business as usual on X and Instagram. Nothing to report on the social media side, other than I am spending way more time on X than Instagram.

Ultimately though, the HYH team and I are very heads down and execution focused.

Talk more soon.

-Harry