Hello guys,
Although I got it confirmed by a couple of people regarding the NOC Code for the below two job responsibilities (Investment Analyst 1112). I would really be thankful if you all could also confirm the same:
Job 1 Responsibilities:
Investment analysts perform some or all of the following duties:
Although I got it confirmed by a couple of people regarding the NOC Code for the below two job responsibilities (Investment Analyst 1112). I would really be thankful if you all could also confirm the same:
Job 1 Responsibilities:
- Involved in forecasting the prices of commodities, involving an‘Inflation Forecasting Models for a Fortune 500 client
- Worked on the periodical budget process to ensure minimum divergence of the forecasts from the actual figures
- Identified and extracted macroeconomic and commodity specific quantitative data from various databases and publicly available sources
- Related market information, economic data and macroeconomic changes to the prices of specific commodities
- Responsible for conducting macroeconomic analysis using variables such as Manufacturing PMI, Housing starts, Current account deficit, yield curve analysis and CPI among others
- Built statistical models using quantitative techniques like regression analysis, time series analysis, ARIMA, VAR, seasonality, etc.
- Interpreted qualitative and quantitative information from news and market reports and link it to the price variations
- Employing a range of self-prepared predictive models and frameworks to comprehensively analyze macroeconomic/geopolitical trends and developments, and find trading opportunities
- Conducting Macro-economic, political and Geo-political research and analysis of G-7 countries on a daily basis and giving Buy/Sell recommendations for FX currency pairs
- Leading research projects, to develop and enhance systematic investment strategies across a range of asset classes, especially currency and fixed income instruments
- Building necessary toolkit to generate, enhance and evaluate systematic investment strategies; while understanding the connections between statistical significance and robustness of underlying economic fundamentals
- Writing Predictive daily and week ahead reports on Currency pairs highlighting key economic, political and Geo-political drivers
- Identifying, creating and maintaining econometric models and macro indicators used to forecast macroeconomic trends, interest rates and currencies
Investment analysts perform some or all of the following duties:
- Collect financial and investment information about companies, stocks, bonds and other investments using daily stock and bond reports, economic forecasts, trading volumes, financial periodicals, securities manuals, company financial statements and other financial reports and publications
- Examine and analyze financial and investment information collected, including profiles of companies, stock and bond prices, yields and future trends and other investment information
- Provide investment advice and recommendations to clients, senior company officials, pension fund managers, securities agents and associates
- Prepare company, industry and economic outlooks, analytical reports, briefing notes and correspondence.
