Financial analysts
NKPD code: 2413
Description
Financial analysts carry out quantitative analyses of information affecting investment programmes of public or private institutions. Financial analysts perform the following main tasks: • analysing financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions; • maintaining knowledge and keeping abreast of developments in industrial technology, business, finance and economic theory; • interpreting information affecting investment programmes, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risk and economic influences; • monitoring economic, industrial and corporate developments by analysing information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources and personal interviews; • recommending investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff or the general public; • determining the prices at which securities will be issued to the market and offered for purchase by the public; • preparing investment plans based on financial analyses; • evaluating and comparing the quality of securities in a given industry; • presenting oral and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations and entire economic sectors. Examples of occupations in this unit group: – Financial analyst – Investment analyst – Consultant, securities