Wilshire Associates: reputation; interviewing with them

Hi, what's your opinion about Wilshire? Are they any good/reputable? I'm interviewing with them soon (for private equity analyst role) and was wondering what kind of reputation they have.

 

WA tends to do one of two things: (1) provide investment consulting services to institutions and (2) act as a Fund of Funds (I interviewed with them in a past lifetime).

Many of the larger institutional investors here (LA) have used WA or invest with them, so you're pretty well-covered there. Just realize that it's more an asset-management/investment consulting company than banking per se (which means that exit opps are more limited).

Finally, LA offices overlook the ocean and are in a great area, so no complaints there.

 
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WA DO NOT invest their own money. They dont' raise a PE fund to buy up companies (typical PE). WA DO provide investment consulting in the PE area (i.e. tells institutions which PE funds to put their money in) and/or helps them build their PE portfolio (typical investment consulting).

They're not part of any "tier" because they're not PE per se. Just look at the bios of the Associates/VP's (none of them have any "typical" banking experience). So your shots of going to any of the "top PE houses" is almost zero (see my "exit opps are more limited" comment above). I'm not saying that it's a bad gig (you certainly will be working asset management/investment consulting," it's really tough to make the leap to IB or PE.

Hope this helps (PM me if you have any more questions).

 

oh wow, i just had my first round yesterday actually. They havent gotten back to me yet haha. they said they are doing another office superday next week? hopefully i will hear back a response. How did you get a invitation on the phone? That's amazing haha.

 

hahaha, cant believe you and I are competing against each other for these things man, just want to give you a heads up, they dont freaking pay to fly you over there, i had to drive up there, had to pay 25 dollar for parking and they just dont reimburse anything at all, but their office is really nice though, lemme know updates bro

 

well the cfo just offered me after the phone interview, he just said that "i know you are located in OC but is there any chance that you might be up north this coming week?", like that, the 2nd round was ok, like i said above, they were interviewing another person next door,

 

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