What is the difference between an investment banker and a financial analyst?
A financial analyst can work at an investment bank, a brokerage firm, and investment advisory firm, a mutual fund company, a pension plan, a corporation… there are thousands upon thousands of opportunities for someone with financial analyst skills. Investment bankers help companies raise capital (debt securities, IPO’s, follow on public stock offerings, private placement offerings), buy or sell firms, or just help companies analyze their options in any of these areas. You can be an analyst in an investment banking firm, but there aren’t that many investment banks and so opportunities as a financial analyst in Investment Banks are fewer than the overall opportunities as a financial analyst.
