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Barking up the wrong tree. Prestige is a red herring in HF world

whichever one with highest alpha

If your quality of question is at this level, the answer doesn't concern you. 

Here we go again

Prestige in the HF world is different than IB or PE. The fund that is making money and generating alpha is the most prestigious. Tiger (-56%), Lone Pine (-36%), D1 (-31%) are all considered "prestigious" on wso but were all down significantly last year. There's plenty of HFs that are tiger cub and non-tiger cub that are equally as desirable to work as the big names, but are more low-key and you'll never hear about them on this site.

HF is also different than PE in the prestige arena because PE prestige are largely based on how many people you send to top MBAs and how much money you can raise whereas prestige in the HF world is strictly based on performance. Most people in the HF world don't desire to leave for an MBA and it's actually more difficult to generate returns the more AUM grows at a HF.

Darsana

Cubs

TCI

Pershing 

My fund, Holden Crystal Capital. You can be my bike boy. 

You still don’t get it do you. If you join a fund - it’s to make money.

This isn’t SS my guy. No one gives af if you’re at GS or Lincoln Financial. You are here to make money. Tiger cubs aren’t that great PnL wise. I’d rather be Ken Griffen.

If you aren’t here to make money and want to masturbate prestige stay on the SS forever.