Best schools for financial planning/investment management

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Anonymous wrote:What some of you - including OP - don’t understand is that financial planners are just that - planners - not investment gurus. Yes, they invest client money, but that investing is overwhelming based on personal/financial goals, index products, and the assumption that investments will return their average over time. Thus, a prestige degree or Wall Street experience is not necessary. Pedigree is reserved for running a hedge fund, or something similar. In that case, the emphasis is on individual investments and overall portfolio strategy. However, hedge funds don’t do financial planning for individual clients.


Interesting. So what are the best prestige degrees if you want to be a hedge fund manager?


An economics degree from a top-10 university or SLAC.


And an MBA. All the younger hedge fund and PE people I talk to for work have MBAs from top schools.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Being a financial advisor is just telling people common sense stuff. Not sure a college degree is needed.


Right. A GED and a cell phone is all you really need. Anything more is just showing off.
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