Investment Fund Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate investment strategy or operations for a large pool of liquid assets supplied by institutional investors or individual investors.

On the job, you would:

• Manage investment funds to maximize return on client investments.
• Select specific investments or investment mixes for purchase by an investment fund.
• Monitor financial or operational performance of individual investments to ensure portfolios meet risk goals.

Education

• master's degree
• bachelor's degree

Business

• accounting and economics
• customer service

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Math and Science

• arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Safety and Government

• law and government

Basic Skills

• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
• reading work related information

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Enterprising

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

• Integrity
• Analytical Thinking
• Stress Tolerance
• Achievement/Effort
• Dependability
• Persistence

Verbal

• communicate by speaking
• listen and understand what people say

Math

• choose the right type of math to solve a problem
• add, subtract, multiply, or divide

Ideas and Logic

• use rules to solve problems
• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Visual Understanding

• see hidden patterns