Business Insider: Scott Rostan “Millennials on Wall Street are smarter and more sophisticated than their predecessors”

http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-interns-are-getting-younger-and-smarter-2015-6 By Portia Crowe As the founder and CEO of Training The Street, Scott Rostan has been teaching financial-training courses to interns and analysts at Wall Street firms as diverse as Credit Suisse, UBS, and the Blackstone Group for more than 15 years. Before that, he was a new hire himself on Merrill...

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Business Insider: Scott Rostan “16 ways to crush your summer internship on Wall Street”

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-crush-wall-street-internship-2015-4 By Portia Crowe If you play this right, your internship could lead to a first-year analyst job. Congratulations! You’ve landed yourself an internship on Wall Street this summer. While this is just the very first step to building a career on the Street, the stakes are high — if you play this right,...

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Business Insider: Scott Rostan “Here’s why more Wall Streeters are heading to Silicon Valley”

http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-streeters-are-heading-to-silicon-valley-2015-3 By : Kathleen Elkins Last week, Morgan Stanley's chief financial officer of four years, Ruth Porat, announced she plans to join Google as its new CFO. She's not the only one leaving Wall Street and heading to Silicon Valley. Goldman Sachs has lost several top people to West Coast tech companies over the past few...

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BloombergBusiness: Scott Rostan “Dollar’s Gain Gives CEOs More Muscle to Acquire Abroad”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-23/dollar-s-gain-gives-ceos-more-muscle-to-acquire-abroad-real-m-a By Tara Lachapelle The stronger U.S. dollar may be the final nudge American acquirers needed to start bidding for foreign targets they’ve had their eyes on. Even as the rising currency weighs on earnings at some U.S. companies that have overseas operations, it’s also offering an added bonus for those scouring abroad...

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Commercial Property Executive: Robert Rostan “What’s Next for the House That Schorsch Built?”

FEBRUARY ISSUE: February 16, 2015 By Gail Kalinoski, Contributing Editor For American Realty Capital Properties Inc., the world has changed drastically since Feb. 7, 2014. On that day, ARCP completed the acquisition of Cole Real Estate Investments Inc., creating a $21.5 billion net-lease REIT, the largest of its kind. Nicholas Schorsch, ARCP’s...

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Bloomberg: Scott Rostan: “Swiss Franc Surge Is Bonus to Buyers With U.S. in Mind: Real M&A”

By Aaron Kirchfeld, Manuel Baigorri, and Tara Lachapelle Switzerland now has one more reason to join Europe’s acquisition binge in the U.S. The unexpected rise in the franc is giving Swiss companies more acquisition firepower as they seek economic growth outside of Europe, according to bankers and academics. Drugmaker Novartis AG, crop-chemicals...

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