#6. Productivity
Finally, PCs That Live Up to All the Needs of Equity Research Analysts
You can give 10 carpenters average quality hammers, saws and miter boxes and they’ll produce a wide array of finished work. If you give them all higher quality tools, you’re likely to get some better finished products, but from only those who are masters at using the tools. With this consideration as a backdrop, for the past…
16 Tips to Minimize the Most Troubling Disruptions Hurting Your Research Efforts
You have two flights to choose from, one is non-stop and the other has a 2-hour layover. If they’re both the same price, which one do you choose? Assuming the layover doesn’t allow for a quick sightseeing jaunt in a city of interest, it’s a no-brainer to buy the non-stop. And yet, I would contend…
The 6-8 Tactics for Being a Successful Equity Research Analyst
At the end of a typical work day, do you feel as though you achieved most of what you set out to do that morning? Are you regularly being acknowledged, or even rewarded, for doing a great job? If you answered “yes” to these questions, read no further. But if you’re like the majority of…
Struggling to Find Good Stock Calls? 10 Tips to Find More Time
“I have trouble coming up with good stock calls,” is one of the most common concerns I hear when starting a new one-on-one coaching assignment with an analyst. There are dozens of skills required for great stock picking, but only one that burdens almost all analysts, regardless of experience level or geographic location: time management….
Eat What You Order, Not What You’re Served: Tips for Taking Command of Your Information Flow
You enter a restaurant and the server walks over to your table and serves you four plates of random food, most of which don’t appeal to your tastes. Unfortunately, many equity research analysts are getting just this in terms of their daily information flow, which is giving them the equivalent of professional indigestion. In most…
Quiz: How Much Time Are You Wasting? (It Could Be Costing You Money)
We all have the same 24 hours in a day, but I find some analysts use it much more effectively than others. Based on my experience I don’t sense the level of a person’s time management skills has anything to do with their intelligence, professional experience or even their degree of ambition. It comes down to…
I Don’t Have Time for Your Agenda
Are equity research analysts intelligent and hardworking? Absolutely. Then why do so many struggle to find the unique insights required for generating alpha? My thesis: they let too much of their time get consumed by other people’s agendas (OPAs). Early in my career I struggled to add value even though I was working from 7…
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