What would I advise someone who wants to get more involved in Asset Management? Who would I suggest they talk to?
I could start with a negative: don’t look to AM if you are really a techie. Or want clear role definitions and a well-trod career path.
Don’t look for certainty.
On the other hand, I am one of the chosen who, having found AM, I never looked back. It was just the right combination of middle-chunking for me: not swamped in technical details, not airy abstractions. Grounded (in physical realities) but exploratory. Always learning, thinking new thoughts, using different parts of my brain and experiences. And in asset world, somewhere up the food chain: creating strategies rather than delivering them.
Maybe not quite high enough, when dealing with short-sighted CEOs? But I personally didn’t want stupid organisational politics. There is something idealistic about the right people in AM.
Who I would listen to – apart from Penny Burns, of course (go to source)?
Who would you suggest?
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