This story requires our BI Prime membership. To read the full article,Bilal Hafeez, a former currency analyst at Nomura in London, just started up a research curation service for fund managers.
Bilal Hafeez left his job as a currency analyst at Nomura earlier this year. He's already found a new career — as an independent analyst winning clients on his own — and says the feedback has been so positive he's not likely to ever go back to banking., where Hafeez curates and writes about macroeconomic trends, and how they affect financial markets.
"There's a lot of good content out there, but just too much of it," London-based Hafeez told Business Insider in an interview."The larger issue is the challenge of curation and filtering. To do that well, you have to have a lot of experience in markets, from a research perspective. And on the other hand you need to understand how clients think. That's a really big problem to solve.