What career path is right for a value investor?
Hi guys,
I am new to this website but I need some serious help.
I am studying business at university and I'm going to do a masters in finance. All of this is well and good but this systematic path of education seems tedious to me as 200 other people are studying the same thing with me, to stand out and more importantly to follow my true passion I have been studying a lot about value investing in my free time. I used to be a trader, or a speculator as I like to call it now.
I love reading and studying about value investing but I don't understand where this can take me. I want to know what career can allow me to keep INVESTING but this time working in a firm. Everything I search up like hedge funds for example are short term TRADERS. I want to be an investors, Can someone tell me what firms employ you then let you invest with their money and not trade for the short term. What is this industry called.
Please help, this question might sound very beginner-ish but I say it myself that yes, I am a beginner hence asking this question on here.
Thank you to whoever replies.
Long-only asset mangement but don't think you can just pick one thing and let it simmer for months. Hedge funds are extremely hard to get in out of undergrad. It's not like renaissance tech is going to blow up your linkedin because you're a value investor.
Best Firms to Prepare for Value Investing Career? (Originally Posted: 10/10/2012)
New to this side of the forum, but I'm an undergrad junior studying Math & Economics at a west coast target. My GPA is ~ 3.65; I've interned at a middle market investment bank already and studied abroad at the London School of Economics.
My main career goal right now is to be an analyst at a value oriented hedge fund. I'm not very interested in IBD anymore, so I was wondering which AM firms I should look into for this summer that would be good preparation for a future career at a value fund?
Berkshire Hathaway.
If finding a value oriented hedge fund or AM firm to work at is difficult, you could also try looking into business valuation firms. However while some are a bit more mechanical in their process (they basically get paid for a report/opinion) and don't really take a deep exposure in the company the value, they still get access to management information, deal with just as many companies, and etc.
I just started interning at one, the downside I would say is that while the skillset/modeling ability you may learn is relevant, I don't see myself developing that 'intuition' for value investing there. However I just started there so you might want to take that last comment with a grain of salt.
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