Undergrad to Buyside or Stick Traditional

Hi- curious about what the monkeys on WSO think about this. I've been told that buyside is where almost every IB analyst hopes to end up. I just recently received an offer for an investment group at BlackRock (which is, at least my impression, a buyside destination). Would you recommend taking this offer with BlackRock over doing the more traditional IB route. What are advantages to taking this offer/potential downsides I'm not thinking of? Will pay differ at all long term or will this help me bypass the traditional two years of IB work? Any advice welcome!

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Sorry, can you be a bit more vague and make additional hasty generalizations?

 

What’re you doing at BlackRock? Vastly different strategies/personalities/pay. Personally I think a lot of the modern portfolio theory mutual fund management they do is boring and a mechanical statistics exercise at the end of the day vis a vis direct investing in individual assets but to each his own. You’ll earn a ton less than you would if successful at a hedge fund or PE but you also have more job stability. Tbh I’m allergic to the passive asset manager personality but ymmv.

 

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