Investment Fund Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate investment strategy or operations for a large pool of liquid assets supplied by institutional investors or individual investors.
Also called: Equity Analyst, Investment Analyst, Portfolio Manager, Senior Investment Analyst
Knowledge:
- accounting and economics
- customer service
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- use rules to solve problems
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Analytical Thinking
- Stress Tolerance
- Achievement/Effort
- Dependability
- Persistence
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- Risk analysis software
- SAS
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
Financial analysis software
- Portfolio analysis software
- SunGard Financial Systems AddVantage
