For a city of its size, I'm really surprised at how many top-notch buyside firms are in boston. You have Bain Capital, Baupost group, wellington, bracebridge, and a slew of others.
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big buyside town, but more for established players. NY,NY is still the hub. Also for junior people you just don't have the exposure up here. However if you are a fund manager here in Boston, then you have it made. All the pay with none of the shit heads.
Not to mention Fidelity.
It's definitely a pretty big buyside town. Guess there's a lot of rich folks in Boston.
Like BCBanker said, not a great place starting out. But being on the buyside with 60% the cost of living must be a sweet gig once you're a PM.
And when it comes to Baseball it is also the better place to be.
Really? They have direct access to the best school in the world... And soooo much old money in Boston.
Side note: Awesome city.
Huh. I didn't know so many kids from BC got into finance. :D
it's more slanted toweard buyside. gs, ibanks offices there are small hiring only a couple a year and usually they go to boston area schools
I went to Boston a couple of times for work/dinner with some of those firms you mentioned. the thing with the people there is if you are old and have a family its great (work-wise, peronal life) but as junior you don't get the exposure.. one of my friends who works there complains work and life there isn't "challenging" enough
I do like Boston, but the girl situation is terrible in comparison to NY, so that's another disadvantage.
Chicago is very much underrated - particularly for RE PE and HF - tons of good shops there.
whoa hold up girl situation?
It's not that bad, its just not NYC in terms of girls. Nothing is though.
My tenative life plan has me working in Boston when I'm old enough to have a family (with my wife that I will meet in NYC, obviously). Screw the 1-1.5 hour commute into NYC from the 'burbs when you can live in a nicer part of the greater Boston area for less money and half the commute time.
Kinda related and kinda not related:
I saw a job posting from Bain Cap for Portfolio operations associate. Is this considered BO or FO?
BO
"You have Bain Capital, Baupost group, wellington, bracebridge, and a slew of others."
You mention all these,but you forget the two most important players...Buy side powerhouse State Street and world's largest mutual fund manager Fidelity.
Why is that surprising? It's the home of old money, New England powerhouse academics and wealth, doesn't it make sense that so many huge buy-side firms are there?
Great movies there for realz Good Will Hunting et al.
i'm surprised that there aren't hot girls considering you have BU, BC, Northeastern, MIT, Harvard, etc to choose from
lots of great companies on the buyside- eaton vance, putnam, MFS, Fido, Wellington, and SSgA
dont know if capital group co. has presence there but they should
Dude, did you actually mention hot girls in the same sentence with Harvard and MIT? Are you leveling us?
From my visits, BC has pretty decent girls, and BU and northeastern are decent as well. On a side note, the guys I know at Harvard Business absolutely KILL it with the girls in Boston. They just love HBS guys.
Wondering the same thing and NE girls suck, BU and BC do pretty well for girls
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