Brett has more than 10 YOE, having worked at Maverick and running pods at DE Shaw, Citadel and Schonfeld. He knows his stuff solid and provides a lot of answers to questions that are frequently asked here.
I found him on Twitter a couple of days ago and I definitely think it can be helpful for aspiring L/S analysts.
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Fintwit is a great resource, especially for quant (pretty lacking on WSO).
Any specific resources you’d recommend for quant?
Off the top of my head:
Crypto/HFT: 0xdoug
Market Microstructure: HideNotSlide
General Quant: robertmartin88, therobotjames, EmanuelDerman
Vol/Derivatives: volmagorov, bennpeifert
Macro: macropotamus
I am a mere junior HF data scientists with aspirations in quant so take my recs with a grain of salt ofc
Yes, fintwit is very good for FICC/Macro/Quant. Seems a lot of people on here who despise twitter are in banking and use it just like social media (litq etc).
Brett knows the fastest way to grow and reach his audience is the posts he is making. His "talent pool" idea is working great.
He is straight up legit.
Yah reminded of your posts, both of you with similar goals (educating new gen of analysts).
Yes. Brett also has a B2B angle that I think smaller funds with not-so-good people management capability (speaking from personal experience) can really benefit. There are always some PMs who can make money than who can make others better.
Very good stuff
His stuff reminds me how insanely granular the good pods go. So much talent slicing up every angle to make short term calls. It puts to shame most other processes, with the alpha to show for it.
The supreme irony is that for all their talent and hard work, these analysts are themselves cogs in a great business, with terrible longevity and risk-adjusted LTV for their own careers.
There was a comment on one of his tweets which I enjoyed:
https://twitter.com/Adam_Wyden/status/1552490219236098048?t=FYzH4o1LG07…
Curious what advice you'd have for someone interning at a pod as an undergrad next summer. I'm pretty set on public markets/investing and I find the factor/beta neutral style interesting/compelling; have an opportunity to join a HF potentially out of UG so I've gone for it but wonder what your 2C are.
I interned at a pod but am going to PE full time--feel free to DM me
Yeah, his threads have given an incredible insight into how hedge funds function especially pod style shops and many other brilliant insights. Been following him for a few months now and it has been on of the best accounts I've come across this year.
Yo!! It’s me!! Yea exactly right. We are building open access training academies so that any analyst can get the quality of training that I got at Maverick.
happy to answer any questions
Been following your stuff for a few weeks now. I don't even work in your space directly (FICC products), but your content is extremely high signal-noise ratio.
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Thanks for all the great content. Unrelated question I've been curious about: what approach do you take with your personal assets now? (asset allocation? specific process or investment profile you favor?)
I remember your tweets mentioning you had explored starting a small cap concentrated fund (may have those details wrong) - curious if you ended up doing some form of that even if just in PA.
While I was working in HF seats I got very interested in cash flowing real estate to diversify my exposure, so that’s a big part of what I do with my extra cash. But yes I still have the stock bug and I find that small caps have less competition due to liquidity and thus likely to be less fairly valued. But not for the faint of heart!
I noticed in some of your tweets you mention IB recruiting a lot. Is there also an option for SS ER? TIA
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Some seriously valuable lessons.
Brett is the GOAT. Teaches/taught a class at ASU that was incredible
Haha thanks a lot!
Hey Brett, great to have you here. How can one sign up / join one of your courses?
Did he ever say why he left the business to do this instead? His content is good - almost too good.
prob WL balance and love of teaching. He might easily clear $1MM/year with this w/ much higher flexibility
Bunch of reasons why he would do this instead. He likes/is good at teaching and it could be very lucrative given the initial interest.
On the other side, HF life is stressful and he’s likely made some dough. He was fired at Citadel and DE Shaw as a PM and doesn’t want to be someone else’s analyst.
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