CRA vs Ops for the summer

Hi y'all! I'm currently a first year Masters student. I'm doing management with a specialisation in finance. I have also cleared the CFA L1 and my ultimate aim is to break into Investment Management at a BB firm in London. Since my undergraduate degree and experience so far have been technical, I wasn't able to get that perfect IM internship this summer. I managed 2 offers for this summer for an internship: -Ops in a BB firm -Associate at one of the top 3 CRA

Now, considering I want to land my next internship in IMD, which of these should I pursue? I know Ops isn't particularly related but its a big name and I could use the contacts I get to network my way in maybe. Or learn from the CRA internship and better my fundamental analysis and fixed income knowledge?

Any help/past experiences would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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