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How to Get Into Asset Management: 7 Basic Skills You Need

3 Mar 2025

Career Advice

This article is an excerpt from the CFA Institute's Future of Work in Investment Management Guide. A portfolio management career is highly sought after by CFA candidates and can be hard to come by. With high competition for these jobs, to better understand how to get into asset management sector, we asked human resources managers at asset management firms: what they look for in terms key skills when hiring recent graduates, whether there is a best path to landing a job in their firms. Here's ...