Comments on: Want to become financial analyst or investment banker? http://www.urban-strategies.net/investment-banker/want-to-become-financial-analyst-or-investment-banker Personal Finance & The Stock Market Wed, 05 May 2010 06:52:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Len http://www.urban-strategies.net/investment-banker/want-to-become-financial-analyst-or-investment-banker/comment-page-1#comment-3933 Len Wed, 05 May 2010 05:00:59 +0000 http://www.urban-strategies.net/investment-banker/want-to-become-financial-analyst-or-investment-banker#comment-3933 You seem to be operating under the impression that your career will be defined by such-&-such pages taken from a hymnal devoted to math. It doesn't work that way at all. You sound like an accountant! Be careful, it might be your undoing. LOL Instead of imbibing on so many courses designed to explain and possibly justify things of an historical nature, why don't you get yourself a part time job with a stock broker? You want to learn about investment banking or finance? Get in the trenches with the people whose money you'll one day help manage. Even if you're not more than an observer as you sweep floors, you'll at least have opportunity to hobnob with professionals actually performing tasks relative to your career-in-planning. There are innumerable opportunities out there for finance people...from backroom analysis to background checks on applicants for various situations to credit worthiness verifications to countless investment vehicle validations...you name it, it's got opportunity spelled all over it. Len<br><b>References : </b><br>VP of Investor Relations for a Houston energy company; professional stock analyst, researcher and trader. Consultant to the President of a privately held company. You seem to be operating under the impression that your career will be defined by such-&-such pages taken from a hymnal devoted to math. It doesn’t work that way at all. You sound like an accountant! Be careful, it might be your undoing. LOL

Instead of imbibing on so many courses designed to explain and possibly justify things of an historical nature, why don’t you get yourself a part time job with a stock broker? You want to learn about investment banking or finance? Get in the trenches with the people whose money you’ll one day help manage. Even if you’re not more than an observer as you sweep floors, you’ll at least have opportunity to hobnob with professionals actually performing tasks relative to your career-in-planning.

There are innumerable opportunities out there for finance people…from backroom analysis to background checks on applicants for various situations to credit worthiness verifications to countless investment vehicle validations…you name it, it’s got opportunity spelled all over it.

Len
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VP of Investor Relations for a Houston energy company; professional stock analyst, researcher and trader. Consultant to the President of a privately held company.

]]> By: wildcats115 http://www.urban-strategies.net/investment-banker/want-to-become-financial-analyst-or-investment-banker/comment-page-1#comment-3932 wildcats115 Wed, 05 May 2010 04:45:59 +0000 http://www.urban-strategies.net/investment-banker/want-to-become-financial-analyst-or-investment-banker#comment-3932 Not sure I can help with specific course, but as someone who works in FX and been on Wall Street for 15 years, the more math you know these days, the better. Also consider trying to get your CFA once you finish undergraduate school. Its very difficult, but held in very high regard.<br><b>References : </b><br> Not sure I can help with specific course, but as someone who works in FX and been on Wall Street for 15 years, the more math you know these days, the better. Also consider trying to get your CFA once you finish undergraduate school. Its very difficult, but held in very high regard.
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