Global Macro Middle Office

ELK9 — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:19:21 -0400

Does anyone know how common it is for large discretionary global macro funds (caxton, moore, fortress, tudor) to promote middle office analysts to the front office as traders or what the exit opps would be? By middle office I mean P&L, risk exposure, pricing.

Trading Assistant positions

ELK9 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:38:57 -0400

I see a lot of positions labeled "Operations Analyst / Junior Trader / Trading Assistant" on job websites. I was curios if these positions were regarded as dead-ends. I hear a lot of people say that it is nearly impossible to get out of the back office (operations), particularly at BB IBs. I was wondering if these positions were any different.

Credit Opportunities - Hedge Funds

ELK9 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:05:58 -0400

What kind of backgrounds are the large special credit opportunities funds looking for (e.g.: Satellite, Paulson credit opps, wexford, Goldman SSG, Silver Point, Davidson Kempner, DE Shaw laminar, York Credit opps). I know some of these do PE/private middle market type investments, I'm not really interested in that part of the business.