Monday, January 18, 2010

Financial Analyst - Wanna b 1? Lets understand it...

Job of a financial analyst in investment domain is basically to researches on macro and micro economic conditions along with the industry and company fundamentals to make business and industry recommendations.

Evaluation of company stocks (equity), providing customers with buy or sell recommendations, preparing financial models for recommendations and other economic conditions can also be a part of job.

Analyst can work in for either equities or fixed income securities like bonds.

Specifically, investment banking analyst deals with the study on the feaibility studies of different sources of raising funds, market competitions. At an IB, analyst is also involved in underwritting of securities, merger and acquisitions, modeling and forecasting like jobs.

So most of the time it goes like performaing analysis of the world and then country economic conditions. Then drill down to particular sector in the industry and then to the company research in the same order.

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