Occupations/11-3031.03

Investment Fund Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate investment strategy or operations for a large pool of liquid assets supplied by institutional investors or individual investors.

Beyond a bachelor’s

Usually a graduate or professional degree.

AI automation risk

70%

Higher automation risk

Human characteristics

42%

Balanced human and task mix

Task orientation

42%

Mixed exposure

A day in this job

  • Mostly human

    Manage investment funds to maximize return on client investments.

  • Mostly routine

    Monitor financial or operational performance of individual investments to ensure portfolios meet risk goals.

  • Task

    Select specific investments or investment mixes for purchase by an investment fund.

Split from the wording of these tasks, shown next to the occupation’s AI risk. It is not a separate score for each task, and it is not a forecast that the job disappears.

Core tasks

  1. 01Manage investment funds to maximize return on client investments.
  2. 02Select specific investments or investment mixes for purchase by an investment fund.
  3. 03Monitor financial or operational performance of individual investments to ensure portfolios meet risk goals.
  4. 04Select or direct the execution of trades.
  5. 05Develop or implement fund investment policies or strategies.
  6. 06Perform or evaluate research, such as detailed company or industry analyses, to inform financial forecasting, decision making, or valuation.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

  • Repeating same tasks2.67
  • Degree of automation2.46
  • Time sitting4.75
  • Originality (ability)3.38
  • Conflict situations2.90
  • Hands-on objects/tools2.10
  • Outdoors / weather1.15
  • Disease exposure1.00
  • Decision freedom4.53

Top abilities

  • Deductive Reasoning4.12
  • Written Comprehension4.00
  • Oral Expression4.00
  • Oral Comprehension4.00
  • Mathematical Reasoning3.88
  • Information Ordering3.88
  • Inductive Reasoning3.88
  • Written Expression3.75

Essential skills

  • Reading Comprehension4.00
  • Active Listening4.00
  • Writing3.62
  • Speaking3.88
  • Mathematics3.38
  • Science1.00
  • Critical Thinking4.00
  • Active Learning3.75
  • Learning Strategies2.88
  • Monitoring3.50

CIP matches

30.1601Accounting and Computer Science30.7104Financial Analytics52.0215Risk Management52.0304Accounting and Finance52.0305Accounting and Business/Management52.0801Finance, General52.0806International Finance52.0808Public Finance52.0809Credit Management52.0810Financial Risk Management52.0899Finance and Financial Management Services, Other

Schools offering related programs

12 of 88 shown

Earnings are College Scorecard medians for that program, 1 and 2 years after completion. A dash means the Department suppressed the cell or the campus is not in the field file.

InstitutionProgramTuitionAdmitGrad 6-yrEarnings

University of California-Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$13,8009%92%

1 yr $171,664

2 yr $171,936

Master's · CIP 52.02

Stanford University

Stanford, CA · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$62,4004%96%

1 yr $166,516

2 yr $163,337

Master's · CIP 52.02

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$68,2004%96%

1 yr $166,356

2 yr $170,426

Master's · CIP 52.02

City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College

Chicago, IL · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$4,600100%27%

1 yr $160,423

2 yr $189,565

Master's · CIP 52.02

University of California-San Diego

La Jolla, CA · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$15,20024%87%

1 yr $150,453

2 yr $143,744

Master's · CIP 52.02

New York University

New York, NY · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$60,40012%88%

1 yr $150,006

2 yr $145,543

Master's · CIP 52.02

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$17,70018%93%

1 yr $140,364

2 yr $140,166

Master's · CIP 52.02

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$11,70031%88%

1 yr $137,496

2 yr $131,707

Master's · CIP 52.02

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$9,00017%91%

1 yr $135,907

2 yr $127,836

Master's · CIP 52.02

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Seattle, WA · Public

Risk Management

52.0215

$12,60048%84%

1 yr $135,440

2 yr $127,652

Master's · CIP 52.02

Georgetown University

Washington, DC · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$65,40012%95%

1 yr $132,578

2 yr $127,040

Master's · CIP 52.02

Emory University

Atlanta, GA · Private nonprofit

Risk Management

52.0215

$60,80011%91%

1 yr $130,046

2 yr $134,287

Master's · CIP 52.02