Mimicry is another type of deceptive coloration. It can protect the mimic from predators or hide the mimic from prey. Some mimics look like something else, not to avoid predators, but to catch prey. Aggressive mimics resemble their background or signal that they are something else to help them catch their prey.
The CFA does not cover the accounting, valuation, and financial modeling specific to investment banks, and thereâs nothing on conducting due diligence, creating pitch books, or communicating with senior bankers â all of which youâll be doing a lot as an analyst or associate.nd those last 3 items would help you break into investment banking far more than passing the CFA. Remember that time is the scarcest resource of all â you can never generate more time no matter how much money you have.
The two main lines of business in investment banking are called the sell side and the buy side. The  sell side  involves trading securities for cash or for other securities (e.g. facilitating transactions, market-making), or the promotion of securities (e.g. underwriting, research, etc.).nvestment banks offer services to both corporations issuing securities and investors buying securities. For corporations, investment bankers offer information on when and how to place their securities on the open market, an activity very important to an investment bank's reputation.