Tbh u can’t start being a portfolio manager. You are nowhere near the skills when u just graduated from a local uni (knowing how “good” the modules are designed)
Most ppl are doing performance analysis and support before they are handed over a relatively smaller port to prove their abilities but u need to make sure u are under a front office team and not a glorified back office role (nth bad abt this cos I’m in one, but just make sure u are not tricked into being the support saikang forever)

Don’t go to b*s small shops be front office. Chances are u can’t jump off as easy as u think + u will be put at worse situation as years go back cos u also can’t qualify for a middle/back office cos your skills quite irrelevant