Dear Monkeys,
Currently working in M&A but looking to transfer over to AM due to interest in markets, personally I am a top-down investor and have academic background in international relations. I was wondering what would be a good area where one could use this kind of an approach:
1. Political risk/International relations analysis (qualitative) (I'm no econometrics whiz or anything)
2. Investing (buy-side shops)
Any ideas?
For political risk, you could try the Country Risk desk in a risk management team. However, it's not particularly exciting and the "analysis" tends to be more about reading and summarising reports prepared by political risk consultants rather than doing your own analysis. A lot of your job would be telling business units that they can't do a deal in Country X because the bank has hit your risk limits for that country and you'd have to get board approval to increase them.
TL;DR version - Country Risk in risk management is unsexy.
Thanks for the response. Country risk desk in risk man is not exactly what I was looking for. Do you happen to know if any Asset Management companies happen to do proprietary political risk analysis? Or are there many macro hedge funds that are more qualitative in how they make their macro bets?
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