Most of the initial filtering of prospective investment opportunities can be held at the junior levels associates and vice presidents are given a set of investment criteria by which to judge prospective deals , while senior folks step in typically on a weekly basis at the investment review meeting to assess what the junior folks have yielded. Investment bankers do earn tons of money as the successful deals they usually close are at the rate of millions and billions of dollars. Please reconsider and help me out just with 1?? I have about 7 years of experience in Capital Markets and just graduated with MBA from top-tier business school.