IBD but not FO, 60 hrs
BBBBBO. 45-50hrs
Banks Analyst, i did 50hr last week.
I have to take a break and go for a walk or quick game of candy crush in the toilet every few hours or my quality of work and concentration drastically declines.
Only 10 hours if you don’t count reading the FT and listening to podcasts. International equity research analyst.
I was on vacation.
r u one of those folks that doesnt turn the volume down when on the potty?
the worst is when someone on the potty have a full fledged conversation on the celly, so disgusting
IR - ~50 hours / week on average. Right now, we’re extremely slow, so it’s closer to 40
No i’d never take a phone call in the toilet, wouldn’t want a client listening to my/other peoples farts.
I did hear a guy watching a porno once, he quicly turned his phone off once he realised it wasn’t on silent.
Forty-five _ factorial _?
That’s a lot of hours.
Analyst, Asset Management firm. 40-45 hours.
lol
40 or so hours usually … but another 40 hours spent on networking/self-study. I’m trying to change careers from insurance to IB. Not going to be easy.
^what stuff r u doing?
Life insurance analysis. It was the first job I managed to get out of college … mostly because I wasn’t at a target school, and my GPA wasn’t insane. I knew that I would eventually wanna break into IB eventually, so I thought that the CFA program would give me a great foundation in valuation / financial statement analysis knowledge.
Now just trying to find my way into a boutique IB in NYC. Leveraging all the connections that I can, etc.
I might also take a self-study course in financial modeling (I’m pretty good with excel, just not in that sense).
i meant what are u doing for the other 40 hours
The 40 hours of life insurance analysis … in a nutshell … is mostly spent advising clients on various types of products and how most efficiently to utilize their insurance contracts in the context of their overall estate planning pictures (US has some very wacky estate tax laws that open the door quite a bit for life insurance to play a huge role). There’s some use of basic NPV/IRR calculations, and simple equity portfolio management (for life insurance policies that invest in mutual funds) … but other than that, very little CFA program crossover (and really nothing that has to do with the IB industry). Overall, just not my cup of tea (I wanted to do IB from the start anyways).
The 40 hours of networking / self-study is about what you’d imagine. Making contact with anyone I know remotely close to the IB industry. Setting up informational interviews. Etc.
I’m also currently reading a book by Josh Rosenbaum and Josh Pearl, “Investment Banking” … it’s quite a good read, and builds nicely on L2 material. Was thinking about supplementing that with taking a self-study WSP program.
^(the 40 hours of networking / self-study may or may not include the time spent on AF - I’ll let you figure that one out 
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you’re currently a life insurance agent? You sell these products right? Products being all ilfe insurance or life insurance related such as annuities.
I guess you can say I’m an “agent,” in that I’m licensed to sell life insurance. The thing is, though, that I don’t actually sell. I’m at a small firm and we have a single managing partner that does the production (we get new business by word of HIS reputation and 20+ years in the industry as an actuary, etc.). I’m the senior analyst (life insurance version of associate level in the IB world) in charge of maintaining existing relationships / providing analysis to clients on their existing programs / etc. It’s a pretty solid gig (decent base salary, no production quota, etc.) … just not the type of stuff I’m interested in, thus the planned career switch.
PS - I’m not too conversant on annuities (I know the basics, and some of the products/riders, but nothing beyond that). My expertise is mostly with pure life-based products.