A As an analyst, it is a great opportunity to meet senior management of companies in order to gain unique and useful insights into how management thinks. It is important to be able to have good interviewing skills and be thoughtfully prepared, as well as to have a good documentation system for future reference.

We also get to visit companies' business operations in Singapore and overseas, where we get to talk to the local management and see how things are run. My most exciting company visit was to a coal mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, where we had to take a small propeller plane and spend countless hours on winding and pothole-filled roads before reaching our destination.