Career path? What's realistic and what's not?
I just finished my first year of work at an insurance company, where I work for their investment division. We have a subadviser system (we hire others to manage our money), and I'm on the team in charge of that. Since this really isn't back office (nor front office I think), I'm am a little confused as to where I stand relative to other positions commonly discussed in WSO. I'm curious as to what career goals are realistic for me and what isn't and I was hoping you guys could help out with that. I'm hoping to eventually work on the buyside doing PE/HF, or maybe in consulting, but I don't see myself doing the latter (and maybe even the former) without a good MBA. I'm also aiming for a top tier MBA too.
I went to an ivy and majored in engineering, although my ugrad grades weren't the best (around 3.1). I also did a 1 year masters in engineering with a slightly higher GPA (3.3) before deciding to do finance instead. I'm aware that if I land a top tier MBA acceptance, PE/HF/consulting will be possible. Assuming I don't get a MBA, only a CFA, what kind of job prospects and career paths relative to my goals should I expect?
There's no expected path, one guy who is now an MD at a MM started as a professor at a med school and researcher, moved to entrepreneurship, buyside analyst to sell side. An admittedly odd path, but among the senior guys that I've met, there doesn't seem to be a "path". More analogous to your situation was another guy I knew, they started in non-profit/gov't/military space, target MBA, corp fin doing a treasury/pensions role to AM, eventually making PM. Your path is what you make of it.
Right there's no expected career path. I'm only trying to find out what is realistic and what isn't.
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