Financial Analyst
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Puri: AI will outperform financial analysts, forcing them into field data gathering
“It's not guys sitting at spreadsheets, because guess what? The AI is much better at sitting there looking at a spreadsheet, reading every earnings report, listening to every earnings call on earth simultaneously, and coming up with the right decision. It's gon…”
Ayer: Financial Analysts Covering 3i Group Do Not Understand Retail
“Three Eye Group is a financial company covered by financial analysts who don't really understand retail for the most part.”
Conover: Push-button automated financial modeling misses the core purpose of modeling
“The other piece of this is that the financial modeling is often very, when we talk to our users, it's very personal. So they have a specific view of how a company is structured. They have the, you know, one key driver of asset performance that they think is re…”
Sacca: No reason to hire a financial analyst again after GPT-4
“I don't know why I'd hire a financial analyst again. It's a job I value, but at the same time, this thing in moments spit back compound annual growth rate analysis.”
Rice: Startups Should Avoid Early CFO Titles and Outsource Executive-Level Finance
“The CFO title is automatically going to have a premium attached to it. So I would really look at resumes where you can kind of get a good sense of someone's financial background, where they have financial analysts for a large company, and do they really know y…”
Kraus: Few analysts have the engineering and trading skills to run portfolios
“So you need to be an analyst, an engineer, and a trader. The number of analysts that can become an engineer and a trader is small. The ability to identify an analyst who actually can be successful being the trader and the engineer is very difficult to the poin…”
Naficy: Banking analyst roles serve as the ultimate work ethic training ground
“I can't say that I love being a financial analyst. That, it is sort of like loving boot camp. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but you end up working very, very long hours but I will say it's a great training ground as to what work ethic really means, …”