LSE Alternative Investments Conference - worth it?
Invites were sent out today. I'm trying to determine if it's worth the cost (international flight, hotel, etc.) to attend. I'm leaning towards no, but am interested to hear opinions from any past participants. Thanks in advance.
No, def not imho.
Appreciate the reply. Do you mind elaborating just a bit more on why?
I'm assuming networking opportunities with the speakers would be relatively nonexistent despite the marketing pitch.
But I'm curious if there could be some value here for someone who'll be recruiting to PE in a year's time (displaying interest, developing "why PE" stories, Dartmouth Partners having your CV, etc.).
It is a solid event if you study at LSE. All those conferences are geared heavily towards students from uni that organised them, which is fine. Not sure if networking with students will bring you much. That is usually a good thing at longer conferences but dunno in this case. Networking with professionals.. I did not have too much success tbh.
If you were based at least in UK, then I'd consider it since you can meet those people more often in person etc. But since they are not sponsoring anything and going there wont translate to any meaningful networking other then generic asking for business card, adding on linkedin and sending thank you note, I would not go.
Honestly you can check the speaker list and add them on linkedin regardless - they wont remember most of the people who they talked to, just mention LSE AIC and many will accept.
If you have money to burn and that is 0 issue in your case, then I dont know why are you even asking - go & enjoy, have fun. You might meet someone interesting or even get laid or sth.
I'm going.
Got the invite, wondering if I should go as well
More geared towards PE this year as opposed to others. Have heard of people making solid connections/work experience from networking there. (Study @ LSE)
When are you required to make a decision?
LSE Alternative Investments Conference 2013 (LSEAIC) (Originally Posted: 11/29/2012)
Dear WSO friends,
Want a job in Private Equity or Hedge Funds, meet the industry's leading managers and network with an extremely select group of the world's brightest students ?
Apply now to the London School of Economics SU Alternative Investments Conference 2013 before the 4th of Decemeber 2012 on lseaic. c o m. So what’s the LSE SU Alternative Investments Conference? The LSE SU Alternative Investments Conference is the world's largest student-run conference on hedge funds and private equity, bringing together over 50 speakers and 350 delegates from across the world. We are delighted to confirm an incredible line-up of speakers this year :
Johannes Huth, Head of Europe at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts- Graham Elton, Managing Partner at Bain & Company
Hardy McLain, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of CVC Capital Partners
All students are encouraged to apply to attend this unique conference which is not only a great learning opportunity but, as past delegates can confirm, a fantastic networking experience that could lead to possible internships/full time jobs in one of the most competitive industries. All applicant CV’s are reviewed by our professional recruiting firm as well as by our sponsors, including Bain & Company, Man Group, Liongate Capital Management... Where? Marriott Hotel London Grosvenor Square When? January 21 and 22, 2013
Why Register? If you are interested in Private Equity or Hedge Funds, this is the place to be! You will have the opportunity to hear the insights of leading industry luminaries and increase job opportunities through networking! Several of last year’s attendees got interviews and jobs thanks to the networking provided by the Conference. Visit our website lseaic . c o m to find out more about this amazing opportunity and to register (CV drop). Deadline for applications is midnight EST on Tuesday, 4 December, but do apply early as application for a delegate seat is very competitive! In 2012, we received 4580 applications for 350 seatsand we expect even higher application figures for the 2013 Conference. Take your chance and APPLY TODAY! Thank you for your attention! Please feel free to reach out to me at marketingexec (at) lseaic .c o m if you have any questions regarding the Conference. Kind regards,
The LSESU AIC team
How does the screening process work? Do they only look to take few delegates max from any particular school or do they take the top 350 most qualified applicants?
LSE Alternative Investments Conference - Anyone going? (Originally Posted: 11/12/2010)
anyone going to this? It looks pretty badass www.lseaic.com
The LSE Alternative Investments Conference 2011 (www.lseaic.com) is the world's largest student conference on hedge funds and private equity, bringing together over 50 speakers and 350 delegates from across the world. The 2011 Conference will take place at the Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London on January 24th and 25th 2011. Speakers for AIC 2011 include: Hedge Fund Day: Glenn Hutchins, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Silver Lake; Marc Lasry, Chairman, CEO, Co-Founder, Avenue Capital Group; Hugh Hendry, CIO, CEO, Founding Partner, Eclectica Asset Management; Steven Drobny, Co-Founder, Author, Drobny Global; Randall Dillard, Co-Founder, Liongate Capital Management; Nick Advani, MD, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners; Tim Wong, CEO, AHL; John Phelan, Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder, MSD Capital; Andrew Law, CIO, Caxton Associates; Stuart Roden, Senior Partner, Lansdowne Partners
Private Equity Day: Stephen Pagliuca, Managing Partner, Bain Capital; Hardy McLain, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, CVC Capital Partners; David Blitzer, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group; Gareth Turner, Partner, Apollo Management, L.P.; Karen Simon, Global Head of Financial Sponsors, J.P. Morgan; Hughes Lepic, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs PIA; Jonny Maxwell, Industry Veteran; John Webster, CEO, Altima Partners; Douglas Getter, Senior Partner, Dechert LLP; Stuart Martin, Senior Partner Financial Services Group, Dechert LLP; Graham Elton, VP, Head of European Private Equity Practice, Bain & Company
For a full agenda please click the following links: Hedge Fund Day and Private Equity Day. Registration Registration is open (click here) until midnight on December 5th 2010. Please note that if you have already registered then you will be notified of the outcome of your application in the second week of December.
A) Just post it once
B) It's subtler when you don't you use your actual name....
http://lseaic.com/Team/Default.aspx
Interesting, I actually attended this event last year. They don't lie about the demographics of their attendees - you really can see folks from the best unis in the world. In terms of speakers - they were astonishing! Perhaps I am a bit subjective because of my strong interest in HF and PE, but I think you can't get a better team of speakers of this profile anywhere in the world (on the student conference level). I'll defo apply for a place this year.
The only downside: they don't reimburse any costs :/ But if you treat the conference as an investment then I think that you should expect a strongly positive return.
advertising but got a job there last year!
I attended the conference last year as well. The line-up of speakers was high-quality and I particularly enjoyed the Josh Lerner / David Rubenstein (from Carlyle) keynote speech.
I am not sure it's the case for all the applicants (they say they forward the CVs to sponsors) but I got an internship after attending the conference. Given that I was pretty lucky to meet a speaker in one of the technical workshops organized there I recommend it.
I am graduating next year and will, hopefully, be attending again. Anybody else studying in the US like me thinking of applying?
I attended the conference last year and it was amazing. For a student conference, it was really professional. In terms of speakers, you can’t get a better line-up of Hedge Fund and Private Equity executives anywhere else. By the looks of things, this year’s panel looks just as good if not better. I will definitely apply again this year and would recommend anyone interested in a career in finance to apply as well.
It is simply awesome.
Thanks Raoul !
Lol @ the marketing posts above, but after attending it last year, I really can't say anything bad about it. Enjoyed it a lot and will be attending again this year.
My application for this event was just approved. Guess I will be attending...
LSE Alternative Investments Conference - Anybody going? (Originally Posted: 10/26/2008)
Just came across this - www.lseaic.co.uk - seems like an interesting event, especially given that these firms usually don't come on to campus. Is anybody going?
Oh sh*t, thanks for the heads up, Sigma.
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Ehh, but its LSE.
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LSE Alternative Investments Conference 2014 (Originally Posted: 12/03/2013)
Anybody going or know if it is any good? I saw David Rubenstein will be speaking so I want to go but not sure what the rest of it is like. Has anybody attended the conference before? Is it worth it? Applications close tomorrow and I'm still trying to decide whether to apply
would like to hear opinions as well
Useless, full of drooling dipshits.
Was considering it, but I don't think that they cover travel expenses, do they?
they do not (ridiculous expense for international students, thats why i did not go before) for me it was like 300gbp for return plane ticket and some money (sub 50gbp) for getting to the site from heathrow
as a student with very low budget, that was impossible for me wasnt able to find a sponsor or sth..
Yeah, I'm from Bulgaria and with the low living standards here, compared to the UK for instance, the expenses are totally beyond my budget.
LSE Alternative Investments Conference - Open to junior analysts (Originally Posted: 10/27/2008)
Just came across this - www.lseaic.co.uk - seems like an interesting event, and a good lineup of speakers. Just checked, it seems to be open to junior analysts as well. Is anybody going?
did you end up going? any ideas on this years one?
LSE Alternative Investments Conference 2011 (Originally Posted: 11/28/2010)
I'm from continental europe and not the UK, still I'm considering going to the LSEAIC 2011.
Does anyone know if it allows useful networking to the extent of justifying the trip to london? i fear a conference like this will be so full of high-potential students networking their butts off that I may not have any chance to do anything useful.
Any past-LSEAIC attendants who might give me a tip on going or not?
Interested in this as well
bumpy
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Can't help much as I've never been, but I've heard great things from people whose been last year... I'll be making the trip this year...
I may be too. I can't make up my mind.
LSE Alternative Investments Conference 2010 (Originally Posted: 10/21/2009)
From LSEAIC: www.lseaic.com
January 25 - 26 2009
Keynote speakers include: David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group James Chanos, Founder and Managing Partner, Kynikos Associates Emmanuel Roman, Co-Chief Executive Officer, GLG Partners Randall Dillard, Senior Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Liongate Capital Sir Deryck Maughan, Global Head of Financial Services, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Dr. Ahmed Heikal, Chairman and Founder, Citadel Capital
Full list of speakers and agenda here: http://www.lseaic.com/Agenda/HedgeFundDay.aspx http://www.lseaic.com/Agenda/PrivateEquityDay.aspx
Any of you guys going?
It looks interesting... and I'm currently on exchange in Madrid (from the US), so I might go (just applied). I don't suppose anyone here in London would like to host me for the days of the event... :p
Any of you gonna be there tomorrow?
I'll be there.
I'll be there
LSE Alternative Investment (LSE AIC) - Worth coming from abroad? Who's going? (Originally Posted: 12/21/2017)
Just received a confirmation for the LSE AIC. Has anyone been there before, and how good is it?
Feel free to post if you're going!
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Just got my invite as well. Do they forward CV to sponsors?
As someone who has attended this before, truthfully there is very little material gain from going.
However, I did find it enjoyable. If you have money and time to spare, I'd recommend going. Worst case, you'll make some new friends, and who knows, might even get laid.
Also, no, they don't forward your CV onto Sponsors. The only guys that really get exposure to the Sponsors are the LSE guys organising.
Thanks for the information! Finally decided not to go, exam period..
Going!
LSE AIC 2012 - How useful is it? (Originally Posted: 01/03/2012)
I was curious to know about the experience of people who have attended the conference in previous years - how useful is it in trying to secure an internship/ full-time offer or networking (international students in particular), in addition to the speakers are there representatives from other firms as well, how useful is it for people with limited finance experience - are firms receptive, any other experiences... On a different note anyone based in HK/India/Singapore/elsewhere in Asia heading to the conference this year?
I was there last year and I am going back this year.
I did get an interview with one of the hedge funds, but I am aware I was quite an outlier. They tend to cherry pick people for private dinners (I think Liongate was keen on doing this). No recruiters from banks/HF/PE as far as I know, but there were some sort of headhunters around in the lunch breaks (you can recognize them because they do not have School name on their badges / their badge is handwritten).
Honestly, I do not know anybody that got a job from LSE AIC... essentially because people that go there tend to have things sorted out already. Nevertheless, networking with fellow students is great and the topics covered are inherently interesting.
Thanks that was of great help...
LSE AIC - Experience of people who have attended (Originally Posted: 01/02/2012)
I was curious to know about the experience of people who have attended the conference in previous years - how useful is it in trying to secure an internship/ full-time offer or networking (international students in particular), in addition to the speakers are there representatives from other firms as well, how useful is it for people with limited finance experience - are firms receptive, any other experiences... On a different note anyone based in HK/India/Singapore/elsewhere in Asia heading to the conference this year?
that time of year again?
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LSE AIC - Who's going? (Originally Posted: 01/17/2012)
Hey All!
I had a look if a thread like this existed already - but couldn't find one using the search function.
Anybody attending the conference this year? What workshops are you guys doing? Where are you staying?
Best regards,
OhHi
Will be attending. Check your PM.
attending
Hey, what workshops are you guys doing? Where are you from?
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