Independent asset managers titles / hierarchy
What are the titles and hierarchy at shops like Wellington? They seem to have a flood of titles / ranks. What are the PM and senior analyst equivalents? What title comes with a total of 15 years career experience?
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It differs by shop. At Wellington Global Industry Analyst (GIAs) and Equity Research Analyst are the 2 analyst titles to look for in equities. Both are paths to PM, with GIAs being sector focused and research analysts style specific (for ex small cap value). At Capital and T Rowe they’re all called investment analysts, at Fidelity and MFS, Equity Research Analysts
So analysts can have 5 or 15 years experience? That’s a wide range outside PMs.
5 to even 40 years of experience
Maybe I'm wrong but my impression was that global industry analyst at wellington is more sought after than PM. Is that right? Is that the case elsewhere?
You're not thinking about correctly. You have 2 potential paths - GIA or Team Analyst. Neither path is better than the other, just depends if you want to focus on a sector or be diversified. Both are paths to PM, both are partnership tracks if you perform. GIAs start managing $ after a few years so can think of them as quasi PMs early on. Team analyst is a slower road but you can eventually inherit a huge book
In general it's just analyst and PMs, it's NOT like PE / IBD where people have inflated titles.
Many stay as Analysts their whole career. They can earn 7 figures based on size and performance of fund (s) they cover.
The below post is effectively a recap of various comments in the above, but I wanted to just put this all in one place.
Industrywide, there are basically two types of analysts at every shop, with varying titles.
Equity Research / Investment Analysts can either:
(Consumer, Information Technology, Restaurants, may all be types of analysts)
(Small Cap Value, Large Cap Growth, Mid Cap Core may all be types of analysts)
This is basically the case at every shop. Some companies are more focused on having analyst be part of PM teams (Capital being the key example here) or style specific while others focus more on the broader research platform at the firm and instead have companywide resources funneled there (T. Rowe being the key example here).
Most Analysts at my firm carry at least the VP title as well, but at other shops may carry an MD title without running any money outside of a small seed fund. If you're a solid performer and the company or fund you work for does well, you can have incredible upside.
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