<p>Successful investment bank analysts come from top schools and have great GPAs. However, is it an individual's college background that make him good or does he actually learn new investment strategies that he couldn't have learned if he didn't work for an investment bank? In other words, do analysts actually learn new investment strategies at work or does the work time allow them to personally develop their own investment strategy? Do investment bankers get access to tools that a normal person couldn't access?</p>
<p>Ok. Well I think that you are just confused. Investment bankers don’t invest anything. When you refer to investment strategies, you are probably referring to hedge funds or asset managers that invest money in the stock market. Investment banking analysts sit in from of a computer and build Excel models and PowerPoint pitches all day long.</p>
<p>Investment bankers don’t learn anything about investing…ironic isn’t it?</p>
<p>Embezzle your company’s money from m&a’s…then invest. I like it.</p>
<p>I would argue that working for a particularly coverage group allows you to learn the “ins and out” of that industry… which can definitely have its buyside applications…</p>
<p>investment banking analysts learn a ton. But exactly what they learn a ton about depends on what exactly they are each doing, which varies. These are big, multi-faceted organizations engaged in a variety of activities.</p>
<p>Most investment banking analysts are not primarily involved in buy-side or personal investment strategies. Among their most core activities, investment banks are middlemen between companies accesssing the capital markets to get funding, and the institutional investors who invest their money , i.e. provide said funding.</p>
<p>You don’t learn crap as an analyst…a high school student could do the same work</p>
<p>I’m sorry you had that experience, but my analysts learned a ton.</p>
<p>will an internship at a botique help you crack into wallstreet?</p>
<p>^yes 10char</p>