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What are the courses one should study to became a fund manger?


I have done by graduation in Mathematics. Currently doing my MBA in Finance through Correspondence and working as a Market Analyst in a MNC.

I want to know about the courses required and to know whether correspondence courses will have any value to pursue. Also like to know about the work experience needed to enter into a fund management company.

Please provide all the information and if any biography of successful fund manager.

My ex husband is a "real" fund manager. He worked for a top NYC investment bank as a bond trader and established a lot of relationships and did extremely well on the job. When he left this high-stress environment, he worked for a while as a portfolio manager with a huge pay cut and then found a company that was willing to let him have the money to start his own fund.

Quite frankly, a correspondence degree is not going to look so good. You're competing against people with finance degrees from Columbia, Wharton, etc.

My best advice would be to get your foot in the door with a large investment firm, starting out in research, analysis, or something similar. They're generally interested in people with degrees in math and physics. Then build relationships and move up within the company. Most of what you need to know, you'll learn on the job and you'll be doing a lot of reading and restudying things while you work there.
Good luck.

Biography of very successful fund manager Peter Lynch, former manager of Fidelity/Magellan Fund: "One Up On Wall Street",
available in many libraries.
In my opinion, correspondence courses have value insofar as you learn from them, not for "credit" value.

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