Also called: Syndicate Analyst
Works on the trading floor helping decide the price and buyers of new stock and bond deals.
A company is selling $2 billion of bonds this morning. You gather orders from investors, help the head of syndicate set the final price and decide who gets how much.
Bonus is a large part of pay.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in finance or economics.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Finance, Economics.
Growing faster than average (about 6% over 10 years). Tracks financial analysts.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. Electronic bookbuilding and AI allocation tools speed new-issue pricing; fewer analysts per desk are needed.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Macroeconomics, Computer applications, AP Calculus.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-2051.
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