Hedge fund resume - include positions & investments or?
I have a handful of years buy side experience at a concentrated listed equities fund. A concise description of the fund, investment philosophy, and my responsibilities requires all of four or five lines.
I am considering adding a simple summary of positions under my responsibility, perhaps:
- Bought XYZ at date mmm-yy, sold mmm-yy
- Bought XYZ at date mmm-yy, current position
- Advised to buy XYZ at date mmm-yy, not executed
(at a concentrated fund the investment logbook is brief, it amounts to about two per year)
Have you seen this on a resume? How and what would you say? Would you include only positions actually executed?
Thanks.
Personally, I’m a fan of this over listing your returns. I’m currently leaving my role at a LO during my undergrad to move to IB, and I had the same format in my resume.
It helps a lot with the conversation flow in an interview as they can quickly ask: “Walk me through your pitch on xxx”.
I’d maybe remove the 3rd bullet about you passing on something just for the sake of brevity and relevance.
Others may disagree though.
Pitches absolutely do not go on the resume. You can put them in an appendix if you want as conversation starters, but to me they're a massive turn-off when people put them on a resume, as people obviously cherry-pick those ideas that worked and ignore those that didn't.
Tell me what sectors or industries or asset classes you know well. But to post specific positions, I don't like. I suspect you can beef up the description of your role and experience a lot more than just 4-5 lines.
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