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Thanks for the feedback. Yes, my current monitoring position is mid-office, but there may be an opportunity to move as a support analyst for our deal-making team, and I was wondering if I should pursue it.

I work in a niche market/industry in a small firm, so a general "drying up" and mass layoffs don't really apply in my case. My bigger question is how I would make a transition from deal work into asset management someday without starting at the bottom as a portfolio assistant or something. Some have mentioned that you'd need front office type work to break in, but at the same time, what kind of skills would be transferable from this?

My first thought would be that my "in" would be specializing in region/industry-specific portions of a portfolio that I currently work with now.