Asset Management vs Banking for Eventual Hedge Fund

For someone who is ultimately pursuing a job at a hedge fund, which is the better path out of college? Banking, or research at a large AM like Fido, Wellington, T.Rowe? Would the latter have a more transferrable skillset?

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