HF over an ibank?????

buysideguy

16y

Best Response

it all depends on which bank, what the strategy and reputation of the fund/founders are, and whether youd rather work in a HF environment as opposed to a bank.

personally, if i had the choice coming out of college, id still do IB mainly because if I dont like it, I can still go to an HF and it also opens up doors to PE, corp dev. etc. im not saying the HF wont open those same doors, but it could be harder than if you were an analyst at GS for 2 years.

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Rickets

16y

100MM is very small; this is not the place to start your career. Their assets may be growing, but the same could be said at one point about every hedge fund that's gone out of business. If the fund folds up, what would your next move be?

If you're looking to start your career at a hedge fund, you want it to be a large-ish fund that's known on the street. The same can be said about starting out in IB; you don't want to start your career in the M&A group at random XYZ bank, even if dealflow is growing there.

pezzonovante

16y

i would go for IB man - tried and true. hedge funds are on their way down..just read yet another article in the financial times about how most have negative alpha and the difficulties in finding new market inefficiencies.

Hoover1

16y

What would the job be at the fund?

rhuelu

16y

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