Handouts in buy-side ER interview?

I don't know if it's different on the buy-side vs the sell-side, but in an interview involving a stock pitch (all ER positions) is it appropriate to have a handout summarizing key information and give it to interviewers? Or is it more impressive to just rattle off numbers to them? In the former instance, I would not intend to just read a pre-typed handout and would instead just give them to the interviewers.

I intend to interview for buy-side ER internship starting in the fall, but this question just popped into my head so I figured I may as well post it now.

Thanks for any insight you can offer!

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FWIW, here are my thoughts. I was in a similar dilemma when trying to make the switch to AM from an ALM role at an insurance company. I was looking for credit research roles (at Insurance companies as well due to where I live), and did a fair amount of networking and interviewing before I finally landed the role I wanted. There is not a real yes/no correct answer to your question. I asked this same thing to some contacts I had networked with forever and got differing answer. The pro is that you are showing initiative and passion, but the con is you open yourself up to criticism. It depends on the personality of who you would be interviewing with as well. I had a asst PM who was impressed with what I put together and how I was able to speak about the credit. But then there was another PM who just looked for holes in the research, and asked a ton of questions (which is completely fair), but more from areas I wasn’t as knowledgeable about. Hopefully this helps. Best of luck.

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