A sell-side analyst’s day at a brokerage house usually starts with an early morning meeting where the trading team and research team meets. The research team briefs everyone with the updates that are relevant. The Analysts reach office early (before anyone from any other department) and collect the updates and prepare a list of updates (sources of
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Category: Finance
All thing finance including status and decisions pertaining to the fund that I manage
How I managed my funds
I started managing a private fund in January 2009 in which different friends and family invested. The fund outperformed local equity market by a huge margin in 2009 (118% return) and right now I am managing funds of around Pakistani Rupee 2mn. Since all the investors in the funds wanted to keep it halal, I
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State Bank of Pakistan keeps the Discount Rate Unchanged.
Following the interest rates set by the central bank of a country is one of the most important tasks of an analyst as it impacts lot of other factors influencing the economy. All the analysts were foreseeing an interest cut, except one; the analyst at JS was expecting 50-100 basis points cut. He was expecting
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