"It is more than 50 years since Sir Walter Bullard set up the Bank of England’s Finance Analysts’ Committee. And as I sat with them discussing their newest professional opportunity, I came away impressed by the ingenuity and sheer beauty of the jobs that will be on offer. So much of banking has changed over the years. What was once, and still often is, a financial tool for investors is now, almost half a century later, the subject of research for the nation. Even when I had my day in the sun at investment banking, my experience was hugely satisfying and satisfying. But there was little or no growth in performance. And as banks became more complicated, this too became easier to sustain. The finance sector is not now much different from finance one. It looks to you, in the marketplace, as if what you produce is not a true"

"Are big banks reaping massive profits? Who is making the most of the transactions they facilitate? Financing, trading, and helping to analyze those transactions has turned a major industry on its head in the last decade. Big banks began automating and deploying new analytical techniques as sophisticated trading and investment vehicles, and research piled up. Looking back on the financial crisis, it’s increasingly apparent that it wasn’t those trading desks that made it all work. It was analysts who were able to peer ahead and warn of impending market crashes. It was research that bought market makers, regulators and regulators who were willing to take risks that ultimately became the cause of the crisis. No"

"Spending nearly a decade studying data mining, I became increasingly frustrated with what I saw as misleading reports about the way corporate financial departments deploy their resources and break it all down. Much of the financial research it produces is poor in quality, redundant, or flawed. Moreover, since it tends to be informed by analysis of very small numbers of financial transactions, much of it is scientifically and financially irrelevant, along the lines of a quarter with a quarter of a million decimal places in it. The results of sophisticated financial analytics are often only relevant to a small segment of the market. Because of such problems, most of the volume of finance in the developed world involves relatively small volumes of transactions, which means that financial services are conducted and financed with relatively modest analytic capabilities. After the financial crisis, much of the market has turned to companies like Google and Apple to fund research and"

"A new study of financial brokers who are licensed to sell securities shows a startling correlation between the practice of making business opportunities for investors and the more that brokers earn. Financial brokers who participate in business opportunities where the underlying security is financed earn a 1.41 percent rate of return. That is almost triple the 0.67 percent rate that the financial industry paid for its investments in research for the last five years. In addition, more than half the brokerage firms where the financial broker earns the highest rate are also active in financing business opportunities. That's according to a comprehensive study released this month by financial analysis firm Schwerbach & Co. Analysts Matthew McCollam and"

"Analytics at the company, whose biggest competitors are Visa and MasterCard, helped earn more than $3.6 billion in annual revenue for banks. Of that, more than $300 million came from consumer payments in the quarter. Citi's annual net revenue was $59.99 billion, or 48% of total revenue, compared with its previous estimate of $58.6 billion. By contrast, Bank of America, which uses Citigroup for credit-card processing, said Tuesday that it earned $4.9 billion in the same quarter, or 20% of revenue. Also on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase revealed its annual net profit was $7.24 billion, or $7.98 per share, in the last quarter of 2011. The chief finance officer at Citigroup, John Gerspach, said Wednesday that the company paid $2.6 billion in taxes to the"

""By Ross Morgan To earn an academic credit in a finance course, students should demonstrate a passing grade in at least two courses: one on finance and one on the economics of finance, according to the Council for the Advancement of Financial Education. These credits will be offered at some colleges and universities, depending on the faculty's recommendations. Colleges may offer the finance-and-economics requirement for four reasons: to ""make the economics of finance more interesting and to encourage students to work with quantitative research techniques,"" says Kathleen McMahan, co-author of the national survey. Those who earn an undergraduate degree in economics earn an average salary of $79,000 per year and some top earners""

"Economic decisions are based on objective processes and rational risk calculations. This is exactly what economists spend their entire careers studying, often in direct contrast to other disciplines, from physics to literature. We focus on why things happen, what causes them to happen and what you can do about it. So how do economic decisions relate to human behavior? Do people rely more on analytical insights or emotional responses? Are financial decisions different from other kinds of decisions? And in general, do economic decisions guide people to be more rational, cautious and risky with money? In this article, I will explain why our current approach to financial markets is often extremely misleading, even misleading in the most extreme cases, but ultimately irrelevant and misleading. And then I will argue that we need to
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"What are the early indicators of financial success? Ask 10 finance managers and economists what percentage of employees leave and you will get 20 different answers: 50%, 50% … 64%, 65%, 64%. But among those economists, what most struck me were the numbers: Money Magazine estimated that in 2012, nearly $600 billion was lost annually by companies due to workplace attrition, not necessarily leaving employees but still exposing the organization to risk. My research as an executive analyst working for finance departments, plus my 15 years of experience consulting and serving finance leaders, has revealed the following numbers: Analysts earn, on average, 75% of a financial analyst's senior salary. While I do not have the analytic statistics for other positions, this is just an example. Based on my anecdotal experiences, the total average of earnings earned by a financial analyst is about $400,000 per year, plus benefits, the remainder being a salary that comes from the compensation committee. And the financial analyst is nearly always the finance department's highest earning employee. I have also observed that financial analysts are given another two months salary to supplement whatever they are paid, plus an incentive bonus if they choose to stay another year. They also earn 50% of the job's annual cost of an executive in order to help support the financial analyst's debt retirement. In fact, the job's value to the financial organization could be calculated to be less than that of the job paid to the position's normal financial analyst. The analysis of an analytically-trained financial manager is like what you do to advance an analytical career in a pharmaceutical research organization. When evaluating a potential senior analytical hire, you ask, how much would it take to earn in that role based on the experience and analytics you know? Of course, you can determine the total by looking at current income levels. But then you have to decide, ""Am I willing to pay to acquire that experience and analytics? Would you be willing to earn less, for that same position?"" The question cannot be answered until you are comfortable with an employee's ability to perform the job. Sometimes companies have new executive analysts hired who are not college graduates but are very capable analytically. What is the reason for the disparity? Are they overpaying for something that they do not have the expertise to perform, or are they falling into the trap of thinking that with the right financial modeling, they can find an analyst with the appropriate analytical background? But to do that in most cases, they must provide an enormous amount of additional financial analysis and research. That would change the financial analyst's position from that of an individual responsible for being knowledgeable in one area of finance to that of a team member with a diverse set of financial research and analysis expertise. That's not a valuable contribution for most senior executives, because most executives have limited financial knowledge and can only think in a ""financial box."" If you are a finance department leader, you probably understand the implications. Let's start with an objective view of financial planning for the year: If your firm is well-capitalized, earning an annual profit in excess of $30 million, the financial analysis analyst should be earning a monthly salary between $3,000 and $4,000 per month, plus stock options. If your profit exceeds $75 million, you should have a senior financial analyst earning about $12,500 per month, plus stock options. These results indicate that earning financial analysis skills should earn a financial analyst close to $100,000 per year, or nearly four times more than the salaries earned by current employees with the same level of financial planning expertise. What about the value of advanced analytics? Is it as valued in the finance department as it is in other organizations? The financial analyst""

"Profitability Research based analytic organizations generate significant financial benefits with little risk. When analyzing potential investments and opportunities, investments can sometimes lose more than the cash flow they generated, and losses can be greater than the profit they generate. Accounting or finance personnel, as well as banking professionals, work with several investment banks and hedge funds on a daily basis to analyze and assess investment opportunities. Unlike most businesses, where accounting and finance personnel create financial records, academic research provides an analysis to evaluate financial statements. Profitability refers to the difference between the value of a business and its cost of production."

"High on his startup's to-do list is finance, including a brand, the acquisition of other startups and raising a round of funding. And he's currently hunting for the right finance background. Most recently, Ambrosi worked for Morgan Stanley on quantitative projects and also runs a consulting business in consulting analytics that specializes in data for investors. ""There are a lot of industries where technology helps make better decisions,"" Ambrosi said. ""And analytics helps people in finance make better decisions on the buy-side, and help analysts and hedge fund managers in those industries, the high-frequency traders."" The kind of company Ambrosi wants to start could draw a lot of finance talent in, he said. ""What do they need to do, earn profit?"" Ambrosi said. ""And that's why I want to work with people like me to create analytics that can make that happen, and generate profits that earn a return. I've done a lot of research. I feel very strongly that the amount of analytical computing and machine learning that's already being done, the amount of finance and analytic work I can help people with, I feel is not enough. And not just in finance, all sectors need that."" Ambrosi said he believes there's a substantial market in finance for analytical applications. ""As much as I'm worried about giving away money, and worrying about where the market is, and what people are willing to pay for this, and being a good capitalist, I believe the people who are spending a lot of money on analytics today, when I'm not giving them what they're paying for today, they're earning a bad return,"" Ambrosi said. ""So I need to be out there finding those markets, and creating the analytics that help people earn profit, or earn a reasonable return. And I think that's where I can give back to the world, and help those people make more money."" Ambrosi believes that analytics is going to be part of every industry, in which profit is generated, earning money and earning a reasonable return. ""And if I can help companies earn profit, then I should probably be in that space,"" Ambrosi said. ""You should probably be earning profits, or earning a reasonable return."" With help from other analytics, data-driven financial firms will be able to invest in their own software, Ambrosi said. ""That's the whole market for me,"" he said. ""Where they can use analytics, analyze things that can help their own activities, and they can have access to analytics that can help people, not just make profit. And it's not going to cost them much to do it. They're paying the cost now for analytics, the research. But I'm not saying we're the only ones, because there are lots of companies, and lots of people working with analytics."" The potential market for analytic software, where computers analyze data and generate predictions based on analytics, is huge, Ambrosi said. ""It's beyond finance. I'm seeing analytics applied in many industries, finance, finance, banking. But more importantly,""

"A promising research project by two economics professors at the University of South Carolina has demonstrated the possibility of effectively understanding, predicting, and protecting financial markets. Called Social Prediction Based Risk Management, the endeavor focuses on finance in particular, attempting to uncover flaws and risks in the current financial system that could harm the financial system. It is the result of a collaboration between Professors Dan Miller and Richard Thaler. ""Our goal is to understand and model the consequences of financial crises better,"" explains Thaler, ""the goal is to make an analytic tool that's quantitative, but not simplistic and does not make people go crazy."" Social Prediction Based Risk""

"From research into retirement habits, wealth accumulation and expenditure trends, analysts at ValueResearchGroup have helped develop a set of guidelines to help retail clients who are facing increasing pressure in the market, particularly in an environment where the price of the products they buy are continuously increasing, rather than decreasing. In terms of personal finance, the analysts have shown how in the event of investing in equities, a higher frequency of purchases is preferred than the drop-in frequency of personal expenses. Now, on the other hand, in the case of discretionary expenditure, a personal finance consultant can offer guidance on choosing a loan product that will help earn the money for a certain period of"

"Figure 1: Revenue Mix for Global Assets and Income (Bloomberg, 2015) Consider a typical client who earns $5 million annually in equities, is concerned about the implications of Brexit, and is looking for a private portfolio that outperforms. In this scenario, the fund manager earns only $175,000 annually, but earns a 10-15% annual return. The downside risk is that the fund manager has to employ a full team of researchers who spend 30-45% of their time researching and developing strategies and analyzing returns. This typically eats up a significant amount of investment dollars, but over time, the research creates data that investors use to evaluate and monitor their fund’s investments. And there’s more. Let’s say the portfolio manager earns $15"

"Receive exclusive research, insights and ideas, with our weekly newsletter. Follow us on Twitter @TopInsightsCSE. Returns on investing are often judged on the next few years. But for most investors, the financial returns on their portfolios will never be maximized. Over time, investments become larger and larger; the profit opportunities shrink. Investors make decisions based on a framework of probabilities. That's what excites me. Financial analysts tell the truth about what we can expect over the next few years. Calculations have been made, based on our analysis, on what we can expect if financial markets are to return in a manner similar to historical averages. The financial outlook is optimistic, not optimistic. One of the most striking"

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