Here are the biggest investment banking moves in 2018

According to top Wall Street headhunters, 2018 has been the most active year of hires and departures by senior investment bankers in recent memory.

We reviewed reports and spoke with executives at several premier investment-banking search firms and found nearly 300 moves at the managing director level or higher in the US this year.

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