Does Investment Banking have any sort of attractive“support roles” other than actually being an investment banker?

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EA to the MD may be attractive

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There are a variety of analyst roles which could be considered support roles. Some of them can be interesting and challenging. There are operations analysts, technology analysts, legal and compliance analysts for starters.

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Credit and Risk are pretty good. So is portfolio management

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Risk????? Only if you like going into opposite direction from business and being the most hated person in the company (probably competing 1st place with the compliance folks)

Compliance, legal and IT are not support roles.

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