Moving on from a niche AM role to investments
I've been working as an analyst (data analyst masquerading with a "quant" title) for a buy side AM firm for the last 5 years within front office research. I'm really interested in having an investment role but see no opportunities for that at my firm, does going for an MBA put me in a better position for getting such roles? What doesn't help is the conflict of my title vs what i do, handling questions on the quantitative experiences has been awkward at best during interviews and tellingly hasn't gone well. Any advice is appreciated, I'm totally lost on what I should be doing at this point to get out of this. If anything I don't want to do what i do now as it's all reporting/support and is dead-end.
Have to be a bit more specific Is it 1.) a primary research role that some of the middle markets have? 2.) something on the marketing side so front office but not investments 3.) a trading assistant/portfolio analyst type role or 4.) basically a back office role but is titled quantitative analyst or something? And so you don’t know stats/econometrics/python etc?
in which case
option 1 learn those skills and “fake it till you make it”
option 2 mba reset to sellside then buyside or direct buyside if you really hustle
Option 3 self study and land a boutique/potential pay cut willing to “give you a shot”
this likely captures the bulk of potential options unless you’re a portfolio or trading analyst in which case try to lateral somewhere with possibility to move j to Tracdinf or pm roles down the line
Appreciate your response. I use SQL/Python/R to run reports and maintain processes/tools. I've built logic in these programming languages that helps with investment decisions with a ranking/rating system, however this is purely a data delivery/support function, I don't do any research or analysis on them though my title is a quantitative analyst. I suppose the role is more Middle/back office though i sit with front office research, support both FI and Multi-asset teams.
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