#2 Analytic skill and comfort with numbers: It is no surprise that a comfort with numbers and manipulating them is critical to success in investment management. No matter how good a conceptual thinker you are, if you don’t know how the numbers work you will have a hard time managing money.
Despite some common misconceptions, you don’t need to be a math, economics or finance major to show you can handle numbers. Almost any educational program has a way you can demonstrate your comfort with analytics. Even the most qualitative degrees often require you to learn statistics as part of a core research skill. If you can handle a statistics class, you can handle numbers. So if you are taking a less quantitative degree look for individual classes that can help you demonstrate and test your analytic skills.
On the Zolio platform, you will not only have the ability to test your comfort with numbers; you’ll also have the chance to put it into action in your investment strategy.
Check back on Monday for Trait #3.