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Private Investment Advisor
Are you passionate about finance, providing advice and personalised support to demanding clients? Private Investment Advisers are a job for people with rigorous, strategic profiles, capable of combining financial expertise with a keen sense of customer relations. Before you take the plunge, find out more about the tasks, skills required and career prospects for this fast-growing profession.
The business
What is a Private Investment Advisor?
Its role
Private Investment Advisers help their clients to optimise their assets. You analyse their overall financial situation to propose tailor-made solutions. Your mission: to maximise profitability while controlling risk in line with their personal and professional objectives.
Its field of action
As a private investment adviser, you work at the heart of the financial ecosystem. You work with company directors, self-employed professionals and senior executives looking for cutting-edge wealth management expertise. This multi-disciplinary approach enables you to structure sophisticated packages and support your clients in their long-term wealth strategy decisions.
The functions
What does a Private Investment Adviser do?
Your day-to-day work as a private investment adviser is punctuated by the diversity of wealth management issues.
You carry out a complete audit of your customers’ financial situation
You analyse financial market trends and identify opportunities
You design personalised investment strategies based on risk profiles
You select the best financial and property investments
You can optimise your customers’ wealth tax position
You structure private equity deals and structured products
You plan inheritance and family transfers
You carry out regular monitoring and adjust portfolios in line with economic trends
Qualifications
Qualities and skills needed to be a good Private Equity Advisor
Financial and legal expertise
Your expertise in stock markets, financial engineering and property law is the foundation of your credibility. You have a good command of alternative investments and complex structures.
Excellent interpersonal skills
Your ability to listen and explain complex concepts in simple terms transforms them into understandable solutions. You build lasting relationships based on trust with a demanding and wealthy clientele.
Analytical rigour
Your structured methodology enables you to analyse each asset situation in detail. You anticipate regulatory developments and proactively adapt your recommendations to optimise strategies.
The benefits
What are the advantages of being a Private Investment Advisor?
This profession gives you a direct impact on your clients’ financial success. You play a part in their most important life projects: transferring a business, optimising tax and preparing for retirement. The wealth management sector is experiencing sustained growth, driven by the increase in the number of high net worth individuals.
Your technical expertise gives you a high degree of professional recognition and autonomy in your recommendations. Your career prospects could take you to wealth management director, private banking team manager or independent wealth management consultant.
Remuneration
Private investment advisor: salary and career development
The job of private investment adviser offers attractive remuneration, which rises significantly with experience. At the start of your career, you can expect to earn between €30,000 and €40,000 gross per year. After a few years’ experience, this salary rises to €55,000 and can reach up to €80,000 gross per year.
In addition, there are often significant benefits: performance bonuses linked to the amounts managed, commission on investments made, and profit sharing. Your career prospects may lead you to become an asset manager or a self-employed professional, with remuneration that may exceed these amounts.
Up to
80 000€
Salary per year
Training courses
How do you become a Private Investment Advisor?
Our training courses
To become a Private Investment Advisor, it is essential to follow a specialised course at a school recognised for its expertise in finance and wealth management. At INSEEC, we can help you realise your career plans by offering programmes and specialisations tailored to the challenges of investment, wealth engineering and financial advice.
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