What are the growth opportunities for being a Research Analyst in a brokerage firm?
after quite some time in a brokerage, where can you move?
here’s the daily task thatthey have told me (this is currently being offered to me)
-doing financial analysis
-creating stock recommendation
-creating a research report like the one from CFA research challenge
-being interviewed for market outlook
-joining the marketing team in educating clients
-you’ll also be a trader when needed
-attending company talks
-answering clients question about investment thru phone
-doing economic outlook
-every start of the day, ill be providing company insights for the traders as their kick start
-sending email to the clients every morning in order to give some investment insights
ill be just one man team. Ill be doing all of the research alone.
it will be a very small company, less than 50 employees, and ill be directly reporting to the president.
All of it seems to be exciting for me, however, what do you think will be its growth opportunity? what position could I handle after several years working the above tasks?
but compared to when i was at investment banking (back office) the salary for research is 40% lower compared to INvestment banking,
, if there are great opportunities waiting on the research path, and ill be shaped into a better investment professional, then ill be willing to take the cash downfall.
being part of a research is way exciting compared to the investment banking task that you will process settlements transaction , and your project in IB are mostly about creating a Process Improvement. Kinda boring.
Most of the IB tasks here in the philippines are Back office tasks from the first world country, not so exciting because you’re handling the very end part of an investment life cycle, which mostly about Settlements of securities
but well yea, please tell me your insights