Equity Research Associates work in partnership with a Senior Research analyst to develop deep expertise in an industry coverage sector-consumer, healthcare, industrial growth, media & telecommunications or technology. Associate responsibilities include conducting extensive company and industry research, creating financial models and valuation analyses, identifying industry trends and explaining their implications on specific stocks and writing company and industry investment reports. Associates have frequent and direct contact with senior executives of publicly-traded companies, as well as professionals at the nation’s top institutional investment firms. Associates are required to develop relationships with Thomas Weisel Partners’ institutional equities sales force and traders.