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Thanks for doing all that research and hyperlinking the sources. While these are great sources regarding moving between different roles, it doesn’t directly discuss what someone in Investor Relations must do to make it into M&A.

 
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IR is a lot more stable industry. Lots of headwinds facing ER such as secular decline of trading volume, shrinking number of active asset managers and MIFID (EU regulation making payments to ER come from P&L instead of fees to investors).

The glory days of ER were 20+ years ago. You can still learn a lot and pick up valuable skills but ER is not really a place you want to plan for a long-term career.

 

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