Pershing Square ?

Who has worked at Pershing Square/knows someone who did?

What resume do you need to even be considered to join Pershing Square?

Is this like a Top Middle School -> Exeter -> HYP -> GS SSG -> Ares -> HBS -> Pershing Square situation (elite of elite of elite)?

What schools did current guys go to? Heard they have a few ivey guys

How lean do they run?

 
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They have like 4-5 analysts that all have Linkedin profiles. A quick Google search could have answered your question.

You could even look up their annual investor presentation for their publicly traded investment vehicle and read detailed bios for their investment team.....

 

This was prior to GS consolidating groups. SSG used to be under Securities instead of MBD and the top group was MSI (fed into top credit and equity hedge funds) followed by PCI (growth/VC platform). Even then, the old SSG prior to 2018 had super strong exits. Not so much nowadays...

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Think Pershinsquare and the other top activist funds have some of the smartest people you can find in finance, so it's about more than just going to a good uni.

 
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LOLL this is a joke. Smartest at marketing and shilling themselves maybe. But not the smartest in terms of money management

2 and 20 for a sub 1 sharpe with high beta isn’t going to last much longer. These guys don’t provide much outside of levered beta. And the stuff they do provide is one off punts which sometimes pay off (in the case of the CDS this year) and sometimes get smoked (in the case of  Valeant). I would rather put my money in a sustainable edge rather than someone punting and spending most of his time talking his book on CNBC 

 

Why is everybody on WSO so obsessed with things like beta and sharpe ratios? You sound like you just graduated from your finance course. I bet you Bill Ackman doesn’t know or care what the hell the beta or sharpe ratio of his portfolio is. Answer this, a higher beta implies a stock is more risky because it’s more volatile. If a stock is more volatile that means you will likely have more opportunities to buy it cheaply and catch and upswing, doesn’t that make it less risky?

 

Who pissed in your cornflakes 

“But but but their factors aren’t hedged”

Man folks have to chill and be real investors 

I swear half the people on this forum hate money or something 

 

>investment analyst at HF
>can't google two names on his own

the absolute state of the hedge fund industry

 

At least two guys on the website look like they are going bald

 

All these “elite funds” have the same background I’ve actually through a lot of the peoples backgrounds on LinkedIn and can sum it up pretty good. By elite again I mean the top activist funds, tiger funds etc.

  1. Most go to a target or semi target
  2. A bank that has good exit opps doesn’t matter which one really.
  3. PE experience is the one that matters the most, most guys here are from Apollo, then I would say KKR and BX, then a couple from H&F and other top UMMs or other MFs.
  4. Weirdly most people I’ve seen at Tiger global have all gotten top MBAs mostly from HBS and a couple from GSB and a few others.
  5. Some people have gone straight from banking to these funds but those guys were very rare and they were mostly from PJT RSSG, one guy from centerview at Viking (these are the ones I know of could be more out there)
  6. I too am going into Ivey and yeah we have a few alum at all these funds (though I heard these guys were complete finance nerds and people who genuinely loved finance and were good at it) so it’s not guaranteed but the school is recognized enough amongst these funds to get your foot in the door and wouldn’t be disregarded as a non target.
 

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