Hedge Funds That Hire Out of Undergrad?

Does anyone know of any L/S hedge funds that regularly hire out of undergrad besides Citadel, Point72 and Millennium? 

I am specifically talking about fundamental investing btw and HFs with training that's 3 months +. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Is it advantageous to do an s&t internship and then apply to HF?

 

See, now this is actually a pretty thoughtful and good question!

ER is a bit different--ER is much more akin to a Citadel/MLP/P72 pod shop w/ a defined coverage model focused on calling quarters

IB/PE are best for the long-term fundamental L/S equity or activist shops (analyse a business from the bottoms up with a 3-5 year view)

S&T is still great if you're interested in macro funds (Brevan Howard, Tudor, Element, etc) which are increasingly more quantitative and focused on markets / arbitrages (relative value pair trades, e.g., spread between 3 and 5 year treasury yields) vs directional views, but will not get you far in terms of fundamental equity / analysing businesses. 

Figure out what interests you and do that--you can make a killing at all three of these sorts of places and within finance your outcome is defined much more by how well you do in a given field than which field you're in

 

I think they are specifically talking about funds with built-out training programs, to which there has not been a thread on here that mentions anything more than these three.

 

Do some searches and you can find more names than the ones you listed. I would broaden my search though as I doubt you’re L/S or bust. If you are in a UG quant program each quant fund hires UG.

I’ve been independently looking myself for the last couple of days and of all the HFs I’ve found about 15% hire out of UG. There are more likely a greater number but those explicitly hire UGs. For all of the others I’m going to reach out one by one.

Citadel/Point 72/MLP are the only ones people think about because they have structured UG recruiting.

I came this realization about HF recruiting. If you can’t pitch yourself cold to a firm then how will you ever pitch to a PM or speak with investors?

 

Do the places you're talking about have a built-out training program for UGs? That's personally a must-have on my end. I edited my post to reflect this. In the research I've done these SM/other MM funds only accept kids who have been investing since they were like 10 and really don't need that extra training. I know that I could really benefit from a couple of months of training, however.

 

Types of funds that you I guess might have in your mind doesn’t have an incentive to build a structured training program as they already have qualified candidates with good credentials lining up for them. Other than MM, if you cannot rock and roll from day 1 without training, it would be difficult to even break in. 

 

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