Finance and investment analysts and advisers

SOC 2020 code 2422

Finance and investment analysts and advisers advise customers, who may be individuals, companies or specialist groups, on the purchase of investments, insurance, mortgages, pensions and other financial services and products.

Employees (UK)
197k
Median annual pay
£47,776
Exposure score ?
0.2/10 Minimal direct 0.2 · with tools 9.4
Wage exposure
£188m

Higher exposure than 14% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.

What this score means

Most of this role's work is still genuinely hard for AI to do. Physical presence, bodily skill, high-context judgment, direct human care - the things that don't translate to text.

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The tasks in this role, ranked by AI exposure

Below are the real tasks O*NET records for this occupation, sorted highest exposure first. "AI can do this" means a language model can already handle the task directly. "AI can help" means an LLM can assist but not replace. "Human work" means today's AI doesn't touch it. Importance is O*NET's 1–5 rating of how central each task is to the role.

0 of 26 tasks in this role are things an AI can already do today. Task list mapped via O*NET "Financial and Investment Analysts" (13-2051.00).

  1. Advise clients on aspects of capitalization, such as amounts, sources, or timing.

    Human work
  2. Analyze financial or operational performance of companies facing financial difficulties to identify or recommend remedies.

    Human work
  3. Assess companies as investments for clients by examining company facilities.

    Human work
  4. Collaborate on projects with other professionals, such as lawyers, accountants, or public relations experts.

    Human work
  5. Collaborate with investment bankers to attract new corporate clients.

    Human work
  6. Conduct financial analyses related to investments in green construction or green retrofitting projects.

    Human work
  7. Confer with clients to restructure debt, refinance debt, or raise new debt.

    Human work
  8. Create client presentations of plan details.

    Human work
  9. Determine the prices at which securities should be syndicated and offered to the public.

    Human work
  10. Develop and maintain client relationships.

    Human work
  11. Draw charts and graphs, using computer spreadsheets, to illustrate technical reports.

    Human work
  12. Employ financial models to develop solutions to financial problems or to assess the financial or capital impact of transactions.

    Human work
  13. Evaluate and compare the relative quality of various securities in a given industry.

    Human work
  14. Evaluate capital needs of clients and assess market conditions to inform structuring of financial packages.

    Human work
  15. Inform investment decisions by analyzing financial information to forecast business, industry, or economic conditions.

    Human work
  16. Interpret data on price, yield, stability, future investment-risk trends, economic influences, and other factors affecting investment programs.

    Human work
  17. Monitor developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory.

    Human work
  18. Monitor fundamental economic, industrial, and corporate developments by analyzing information from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources, or personal interviews.

    Human work
  19. Perform securities valuation or pricing.

    Human work
  20. Prepare all materials for transactions or execution of deals.

    Human work
  21. Prepare plans of action for investment, using financial analyses.

    Human work
  22. Present oral or written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations, and entire industries.

    Human work
  23. Purchase investments for companies in accordance with company policy.

    Human work
  24. Recommend investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff, or the public.

    Human work
  25. Specialize in green financial instruments, such as socially responsible mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETF) that are comprised of green companies.

    Human work
  26. Supervise, train, or mentor junior team members.

    Human work

Where a project with Alex usually starts for this role

This role's strict α score is low because its top tasks are judgment, not drafting. But those same tasks compress dramatically when AI is paired with the right context and tools. The three highest-stakes tasks below are usually where we start.

  1. Advise clients on aspects of capitalization, such as amounts, sources, or timing.

  2. Analyze financial or operational performance of companies facing financial difficulties to identify or recommend remedies.

  3. Assess companies as investments for clients by examining company facilities.

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Methodology

This role's exposure score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 GPT task labels, aggregated by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 via ISCO-08 (ONS Vol 2 coding index) and US SOC 2010 (BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional. ASHE covers employees only, so self-employed workers are not counted.

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