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Your grammatical deficiencies along with your pathetic ignorance of finance in general is nauseating. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. There are simpler sources for rudimentary knowledge, a la Google or Wikipedia. Don't clog and dilute the content of this board with your simplistic, asinine queries, and leave the questions up to more serious candidates.

 

financial advisor=retail brokerage (gpcg/gwm/amss)

in terms of investment banking, bankers provide financial advisory services regarding m&a, divestures, etc. but are not, by any means, ever referred to as financial advisors.

financial analysts: study cos and are usually industry/sector specialists that give buy/sell recommendations after doing a variety of due diligence research. financial analysts are allowed to use more "creative" means of valuations and are by no means accountants.

 
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Thanks papershuffler for replying.

To irrationalexuberance in all due respect:

I did my fair share of research. I was kind of confused and all. All I found online was articles filled with technical jargon and pages upon pages that tend to ramble on and on. I was looking to see if someone could tell me in lay-man terms.

I was just trying to get different a perspective or opinion from another human being. (Especially some some with some know how and work in the industry.)

As for as stupid questions goes. I think this is the best time to ask stupid questions, better to do it now than during the interview. I thought this was the perfect situation to ask on this bulletin, without losing my anonymity.

As for as grammar goes, in time it will improve like most things in life if you put some effort into it. Everyone has their start and beginnings. Its not how you start, but how you finish. Think about that.

On that note, I had no idea or knowledge that I was being graded on my grammar... I guess I better stop messing around online and use that time to improve my grammar or else....Cause the banker overloads are watching and I don't wanna anger the banker gods (or flunk the ibankingoasis 101 course) . lol

 

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