The path to portfolio manager can take a decade or more. Publish a free paper strategy alongside school or work, under your own name or a pseudonym, and take it live when you're ready for real investors.
Example, for illustration.
Publish your first strategy today.
Name it, build the portfolio, write your pitch. We take care of the rest and put it in front of investors.
- 1 Name it
- 2 Build the portfolio
- 3 Write your pitch
Example strategy, for illustration. Not investment advice.
Reach the investors already looking for someone like you.
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Your back office, handled.
Brokerage, custody, trading, compliance. What used to take $500K+ in the first year and a dozen providers now runs in one place.
All built in The split finally favors you.
Portfolio managers at traditional firms take home 10-20% of what they generate. On Oval you keep 70-80% of the fee, rising as your assets grow.
The traditional path takes years.
12 years
The average time Goldman Sachs' newest managing directors had spent at the firm.
5+ years
The experience in another business or finance job that financial managers typically need first.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
200,000
Bank jobs that could go within three to five years as AI takes on routine work, about 3% of the workforce on average.
Source: Bloomberg Intelligence survey of bank technology chiefs, 2025
Oval runs alongside that path, not against it. Keep studying, keep working, and build a public track record while you do.
Compete and build your track record today.
Every strategy is ranked by the same rules, using results Oval calculates itself. No self-reported numbers, so nothing can be faked.
Example strategies, for illustration.