Investment Management or Asset Management

I’m in a dilemma between two job offers. 
 

My current background: worked at a hedge fund administrator as an investor services admin.

The two job offers: 

$93 Billion Investment Management Firm - Alternative Funds Operations analyst:

Fund Operations

  • Manage the review and processing of subscription documents and capital activity of multiple private equity funds, hedge funds and mutual funds
  • Responsible for communications with service providers, including fund administrators and auditors
  • Maintain contact with client teams and PMs throughout the firm
  • Work closely with investment team on new and upcoming investment opportunities
  • Provide proiect support related to fund operations

Client Operations

  • Work closely with various team members to ensure accuracy of client balances in various systems
  • Work closely other operations groups to form streamlined procedures and workflows

Fund Administration Oversight

  • Communicate with Fund Managers and Investor Relations personne
  • Provide support for the reconciliation of investor accounts and investor data between shadow accounting files, independent administrator files and internal accounting systems

$3.9 Billion Asset Management Firm - Investor Relations Analyst:

  • Provide support to senior professionals in executing an ongoing investor relations and relationship management plan for existing and prospective Limited Partners
  • Work closely with outside third-party organizations (e.g., fund administrators, auditors, legal counsel, etc.) that support the investor relations team and assist them with their respective duties
  • Maintain internal records of investor transactions and proactively create and review reports to ensure accuracy
  • Maintain the investor relations CRM (i.e., Salesforce)
  • Draft investor communication materials, including applicable notices and/or required reporting
  • Assist with new investor onboarding, inclusive of walking clients through the documents/processes and inputting investor data into various internal systems (i.e., Salesforce, Citrix ShareFile, Intralinks, etc.)
  • Assist current investors with day-to-day tasks and inquiries (i.e., emailing account statements, providing investor account updates, updating investor contact information, etc.)
  • Respond to quarterly and ad-hoc investor information requests and coordinate with other business units (i.e., investment team, business development, finance, legal, etc.) as necessary to complete requests

Please help there are pros and cons to either of them and it is hard for me to decipher which one would be better for my career.

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