Good work/life balance - Research Associate RBC Employee Review

Stable platform due to parent company, so less concerns about being layed off. In research, broad industry coverage and senior analysts are reluctant as they know as long as they do a decent job, they will be compensated well. The associates have little to no room to grow unless in rare cases, analysts are fired, and even then it is unlikely that associate gets promoted. Not the same stress and hours of bulge brackets and is likely what makes people stay around and build longer term careers there (again, referring to more senior analysts).