Investments Intern Review

Definitely enjoyed the internship. Found it, overall, informative and engaging, as well as the people being really friendly and happy to assist you.

As an intern, you can expect to be given quite a lot of data entry-type work. However, after just a couple of weeks my team were happy to get me more involved in some deeper analysis and used my findings in their reports and meetings, which is pleasing.

They were always happy to hear my questions and have an intellectual discussion if I so wished. It was a good balance of guidance and requiring me to think for myself and tackle problems, to challenge me. Sometimes a few more time-saving tips for data work would have been useful.

Varied. There's always something to do, as I tended to have ongoing projects with my team and also we as interns had daily (at least for the first 4 weeks or so) presentations from different parts of the business. When it came to assessed presentations and deadlines for work you're doing with your team, it gets pretty busy, but perfectly manageable.

Not a lot. Some of the analysis and data dissection I did was used in reports and investment proposals, so relied on me having not made errors in that, but overall not a lot of responsibility.

Perhaps you could argue that the time management skills developed a bit more here will be useful for degree studies, but on the whole I haven't learnt anything that'll assist with uni. Certainly some good experience for starting a grad role, and for getting a grad role in the first place!

Very good. People are very approachable and friendly, but work hard. A nice balance.

Good on the whole. Plenty of presentations from areas of the business to help your learning. Official feedback from HR+managers half way through and at the end.

It was mostly in terms of exposure to all areas of the business, to gain a good understanding. Not really any official training or qualifications or anything - that's more on the grad scheme I believe.

Certainly somewhere I'd like to start my career. The rotational grad scheme is, I think, very good - getting a chance to try out different areas for 2-3 months before settling somewhere is very useful. A well renowned asset manager too.

HR organised about 5 after work socials for all the interns, throughout the 8 weeks. These were pretty good fun. Us interns have also organised a few things ourselves, but I suppose this depends on your intern intake each year.

My mate from home and I had to take out a short term let on a flat, which was very expensive, but to be fair our pay more than covered it and other usual expenses. Socialising, depends where you go really, but usual London prices to be expected (a shock to uni students who don't go anywhere in London!).

Can't afford to go out in the City!

Couple of sports events to get involved in and a few socials, but I think it's more easy and there's more to get involved in if you're an FTE.