Overwhelmed by amount of data / granularity

Hi all - I’m a fairly new associate (6-7 months in) at one of the large cap hybrid equity strategies, coming from a couple years in a banking sector team before.


While I think overall I have been doing reasonably well I often find myself really struggling / overwhelmed by the amount of info to review and the granularity to keep in mind (eg endless EBITDA bridges, hundreds of DD documents), as well as constant context switching between things on my plate but to a level of detail that i wasn’t used to in banking. It doesn’t help that I am generalist so every time I need to re-learn a completely new sector (while reviewing detailed DD documents where I am not familiar with most concepts - eg on a recent FIG deal). The huge amount of portfolio / reporting work also takes away time to properly dig into things 


has anybody gone through this? Do you have any tips? I am quite struggling to keep it all in my head 

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