Also called: Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) Analyst, Cat Bond Portfolio Analyst
Helps investors decide which hurricane and earthquake 'cat bonds' to buy: investments that pay well unless a disaster strikes a certain place.
You read a 200-page offering for a Florida hurricane bond, run models to estimate how often a storm would wipe out the investment, and pitch it to your fund. In hurricane season you watch storm tracks with your whole team, because one storm can swing millions of dollars.
Bonuses can be large at investment funds.
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, math, statistics or economics.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Risk Management & Insurance.
Growing faster than average. The cat bond market set records in the mid-2020s and keeps growing.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI helps run models and read bond documents; judging risk, building trust with investors and making the call stay human.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Calculus, Economics, Earth science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-2051.
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