"What can analytic skills do for me? What kinds of things are you researching in financial services? What's your favorite bank? What kind of analytical tools do you recommend to learn? I'm writing this on April 14th, 2016. After completing a 12-month work placement at American Bankers Association in 2015, I just got hired as a senior analyst at analytics company FinTech Data Solutions. I'll be doing financial research, developing databases and writing analytical reports on new payment products that help financial institutions and their customers. I'm not in charge of any analysis or determining the research projects for my clients. I work as an analyst, and write reports that help them market new products and services. My financial degree is finance. As an analyst, I work to help financial institutions gain financial insights on things like credit card finance rates, retail banking revenues, and portfolio valuations. The biggest challenge with my job is mastering the steps of the financial industry. That means understanding finance and data analytics. But I'm quickly becoming an expert in finance and analytics. I'm constantly learning and improving my skills and capabilities. Here's how I earn money: Earners Banking: Financial institutions use my research to educate and inform their customers. The more finance consumers understand, the more finance they want to use. It's important for financial institutions to show off the benefits of their products. When consumers understand the finance they earn and how the process is working, they're more likely to pay for the service and buy the products. A good question to ask is "If I were a financial customer, how would I feel about using your product?" The data tells the story. Insurance: The insurance industry does a similar thing. They share the data and speak to customers about how they earned their money. They want consumers to know how they earn their money and how they benefit. "

"By Kathy McDuff Given the hyper-competitive demands of the financial services sector, in which traders are expected to achieve millions of dollars in research-driven profit in a matter of days, the relationship between academics and professionals who earn much less must be scrutinized more closely than ever before. Here are the key observations of Surya Varanasi and other critics of financial analyst compensation. 1. Financial analysts have an entirely different set of responsibilities to clients than do researchers in other industries, in particular in research-driven industries. Financial analysts will earn at least twice as much as scientists, medical researchers or engineers. 2. Financial analysts must provide the research or analysis which"

"The solution could potentially benefit the US industry, which is undergoing a major reorganization. Even though shale plays will continue to produce at around current levels, there is a significant need to replenish capital investments, ultimately to achieve sustained production growth, and financial managers worry that high prices could cause profits to slow. Earlier this week, Continental Resources, a major producer, reported that it is earning enough profit from its shale operations to fund the current dividend payment and another dividend in the next year. At the same time, though, a report from the American Energy Marketers Association found that oil prices likely dropped below $40 a barrel in the first"

"If you had to start a profitable financial marketing business, would you make a splashy advertising campaign? Alicia Bullrich, founder of Omnia Analytics, certainly did. When she bought herself a Ferrari, her friends in finance wondered why. So did some employers, who approached her, too. Turns out that they did not want to buy market research because they did not like the results. "Other research focuses on generating feedback from consumers," says Bullrich. "When it comes to people's spending, we are in the dark." Bullrich wanted to learn what consumers spend on what. But other research, she says, does not include an analysis of such a large portion of people who live and work outside of New York."

"There’s a big difference between earning a profit, making profit, and earning a point. On average, you earn a point every three days that you pay for a minimum $1 or more worth of membership credits. If you spend $120 on your premium account, you could earn $75 in return. Earnings range from 1.7 to 6.7 points on different accounts for various periods, so they don’t all start out equal. Some of your earnings are credited immediately, while some are deferred and appear in your account after you pay your first fee. You won’t get your points until the billing period ends and you buy a minimum amount of credits. Most online-marketing companies automatically scale your earnings to help them keep track of costs, which can appear to be larger than the"

"But even in the face of this unforeseen loss, the firm remains upbeat. "We are hopeful that there will be others who wish to take on this important research role, that they will see its importance, that they will have the research capacity to attract many talented minds," Moore told BI. "If and when they choose to do so, they would become the ninth member of our team. This remains our collective hope." He added: "We do not yet have the appropriate financial resources to build a complete research department. We want to acquire such abilities. We are confident that, given our history of solid performance, that others will wish to work with us in order to earn money, build assets, and grow their own businesses.""

"Know a class where you can take a class on finance? Click on the class badge below, or on the class name to see if it's already being offered: (With all class badges marked, some classes may also be participating in our Events with Expert Advisors program for ongoing education.) New for July: Award-Winning Finance Blog Expands into Marketing & Sales with a Free Weekend Course Award-winning finance and marketing blog The Finance Shrink just announced the start of its new Executive Marketing & Sales Training Program, available for one-week free of charge. The blog’s new training offers a broad range of topics to build up your finance and marketing skills and create a successful business, including: Three sets of quick-action homework exercises that help you write, rewrite and revise content; Quick-action project assignments to complete and analyze marketing data; Three projects to finish for marketing analytics and marketing research; Earn and evaluate analytics results, based on the principles of analytical research. Instructors and instructors include Nate Houser, who writes about running marketing campaigns on his blog and knows that well-educated marketers will be aware of what is needed to run effective campaigns and create value for their customers. Houser also knows the difference between a “quick-action project” and a valuable research project. He started his business by creating one of the top-performing blog ads in AdWords history and after earning a lot of money, found that earning it was much easier than making it. And in other online marketing and sales consulting experiences, he realized there were many important skills to learn – finance, analytics, finance, sales, marketing research. So he has decided to share his knowledge by offering these classes online. Closing on July 31, 2015, anyone in the United States and Canada can take the classes free of charge. The online training curriculum is open to all. Visit the New York City School of"

"Source: Instinet “The flow into private finance initiative projects will be partially offset by a decline in financing in active infrastructure projects such as rail, pipelines, bridges, roads, and pipelines,” said Jay Averbeck, director of research for the Finance and Investment Group. He said that the equity markets have largely ignored private finance initiatives and infrastructure, which is a mistake, and the chart above shows why. Source: Instinet Instinet’s private infrastructure analytics division has begun coverage of 130 companies that are either publicly traded or have significant private infrastructure investments, advising clients on where to invest. It currently covers 70 firms, including large cap utilities and financials, with the aim of providing research to institutional investors. The firm believes that much of the infrastructure investment that is occurring in the private sector should eventually be financed and sold by institutional investors. Here are some of the reasons why Instinet believes that private finance initiatives and infrastructure should be much more widely recognized in the financial markets. Infrastructure receives far less credit. Infrastructure projects earn far less credit than commercial real estate and manufacturing and even residential real estate and buy-to-sell housing. They are viewed as low risk but aren’t viewed as high earning potential, which results in less capital flowing into these types of projects. Infrastructure projects are also viewed as more complex and less attractive than commercial real estate, therefore less research is conducted on them. Infrastructure investments are often viewed as niche investments and only after multiple years of research. To earn a decent return, analysts need to closely analyze every private equity deal that they invest in. Industry analysts usually give private equity firms and buy-and-hold investors less credit than commercial real estate firms"

"Get the latest from the finance newsletter. Please enter a valid email address. Feb. 24, 2012, 2:28 p.m. If you’re considering putting your entrepreneurial career on hold to pursue a career with a traditional financial institution, get out of that finance bubble quickly. Gerald McKercher is among a growing number of financial analysts who have left the industry to pursue a career in finance, earn big profits and become experts at analyzing and researching investment products. As a former vice president with Morgan Stanley’s institutional research group, McKercher earned $100,000 a year. While it’s tempting to believe that you can earn nearly half a million dollars per year and still be a financial analyst,"

"New Horizons: A Computer Forecast of Future Health Risk In 1991, NASA scientists launched a probe, which zipped by Pluto on July 14, 2015. Scientists monitored the New Horizons spacecraft until its most recent flyby. The mission ended when the probe was out of fuel to maneuver, but we are still busy learning what we can. Previously, scientists analyzed the data from the Hubble Space Telescope to estimate the composition of the atmosphere of Pluto, which revealed that it contains similar proportions of carbon monoxide, methane, nitrogen and hydrogen as Earth's atmosphere. In 2016, New Horizons showed that the atmosphere is almost devoid of hydrated minerals, unlike Earth, which has vast hydrological networks"

"Data source: JCF Capital Markets Data source: Research and Markets Earnings per share (EPS) came in at 22 cents, up from 9 cents last quarter and 21 cents a year ago, when the company was still part of investment management company Dainese Group SA. As with other large luxury goods firms in recent weeks, a slowdown in China led to slower sales growth for the quarter. But the company reported that it still expects growth to meet or exceed that of the luxury market in the next year, with sales for the nine months ended September 30 up by 21 percent from the first nine months of 2014. For this year, LVMH projects organic sales growth of 8 to 10 percent in the company's clothing and accessories business and 3 to 5 percent in the fashion and leather"

"CNN has launched a new digital business for financial professionals. Analytical Research Corp is a premium research service, which offers opportunities for college students, emerging investment professionals, financial analysts, and corporate analysts and financial professionals. The analytical research company is still relatively new and unaffiliated with CNN. What does the average investor do? Most investors either use the Wall Street analysts for their fundamental stock research or the financial experts on TV for their analyses of trends, statistics, forecasts, and financial news. Analytical Research Corp. helps financial professionals with research, analysis, and analysis of market and industry trends. Analytical Research Corp. was started last"

"Uber’s ride-sharing network has received a clean financial audit from a new credit agency for the first time, as the company aims to woo more finance companies to invest in its finances. Uber said it earned a “positive and consistent” cash flow from drivers in the first quarter of this year, and the company’s ride-sharing operations across the U.S. generate $11 per trip. One driver in Oregon earns over $1,400 a month in his Uber earnings, and 60 percent of drivers take home at least $500, a figure the company said was “approximately 10 percent higher than 2015.” Data from the analysis were based on financial reports provided by Uber. In 2016, Uber earned $2.66 billion in revenue from its ride-sharing network. That number was substantially lower than the $3.91 billion it netted in 2015. Uber was founded in 2009 and is now part of the leading ride-sharing industry, alongside services like Lyft and Sidecar. "We believe that Uber's efforts to make financial information more transparent to both regulators and the broader public make it better positioned to expand, innovate and serve customers better," Brian Tageson, CEO of Overbrook, a financial analytics firm that partnered with Uber, told Business Insider. According to Overbrook, Uber earned a profit of $3.26 million in 2016, after making a $40 million tax contribution to New York City. Both Uber and Lyft are available in major cities around the U.s., including in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles. Rivals in the ride-sharing industry include service Lyft and taxi services like UberCab. As ride-sharing services continue to be viewed more positively as consumer services, Uber will need to continue to increase its services to attract more consumers and boost earnings. "Some of Uber's most significant growth opportunities are its future role in financial services — including investor research and investment banking services. We aim to be an active contributor to Uber’s future"

"In an effort to improve finance research and reporting on key issues facing the industry, researchers at the Center for Critical Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York developed a machine-learning technique that generates financial reports without human intervention. "Financial research and reporting suffers from numerous challenges and limitations, including poor data quality, a scarcity of quantitative and qualitative information, and large fluctuations in the difficulty of communicating some issues," said Dean Crawford, senior research director for payments and financial services research at the Fed bank. "We provide a method for automating the process of generating financial reports by analyzing"

"In August 2016, US-based Bitcoin broker Bitcredit announced that its users can now earn real-world money for researching, writing and maintaining their profiles. [fulltext-only] A large number of the users of Bitcredit are paid per a transaction on an ongoing basis, and that’s one of the incentives that has attracted the company to this idea. They also claim that users who can prove their analytical skills through analytical research can eventually earn thousands of dollars a month. But what does it mean for a bitcoin broker to let its users earn money for writing research reports? Could this be a true advantage of investing in bitcoins, or is it just a good marketing gimmick? As you might guess from the headline, this is not a “get paid for"