The Equity Research Analyst is responsible for making reports and content based on financial, business, economic research and analysis.
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Key Responsibilities
Conduct research to help customers and investors on their stock market investment decisions
Provide relevant, up-to-date and reliable information and recommendation to customers and investors about the current market price of a security in terms of its value as an investment
Monitor local, international, political and economic news that may affect the capital markets
Compare various securities of a given industry and provide assessment of their relative quality
Assess how industries are affected by new products, new processes and competition.
Analyze past performance and financial position of companies, dividend records, capital structure and effectiveness of management.
Provide reports, valuation statistics and advice to customers and investors.
Perform research necessary to support the analysis of pricing exceptions across various equity and fixed income securities.
Prepare business requirements and review functional specifications needed to support the implementation of system enhancements and new projects
Perform additional functions such as researching significant increases in pricing exceptions, tracking volatile securities, generating metrics, market event driven ad-hoc studies, etc.
Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk and escalates appropriately
Willing to do video content for Investa’s social media platforms
What you should have
College graduate of a four-year course preferably in Economics, Finance or related discipline.
2-3 years experience in a Research Department of a Stockbrokerage Firm/ Investment House / Private Equity Firm
Strong analytical skills
Adept in Capital Markets (i.e debt and equity market both local and global), Economies and Politics
Good Arithmetic/Computational reasoning, clerical perception
