Buy/Sell Side Analyst with ~6 yrs exp

Hi guys. Sell side equity analyst (also Deputy Head of Research) covering mainly financials here. I did however work approx 4.5 years at a buy side frontier/emerging markets firm before coming to sell side. So I have experience in covering companies in other sectors such as Utilities, Telecom, Fertilizer, Consumer, Cement etc across a number of countries in the frontier/emerging space. We were all generalists back then with regional coverage.

I had a very unique entry into the buy side having lived and studied in South Asia. Few months in my career as a sell side analyst, I met a PM of a fund based in USA. I guess he was impressed enough to hire me directly. As you can understand, my learning was also quite unconventional because I was geographically located in South Asia while all my colleagues were in NYC.

The forum looks promising with some decent content. I hope that some of my insights can help fellow monkeys.

 

Hey - quick question in regards to your entry to the buy side. Clearly that is unconventional, but did you have any other opportunities to move to the buy side when you were still on the sell side. I guess my question is, do you think its hard to make the move and what type of advice would you have for someone wanting to end up on the buy side?

 
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