Juniorization in HF industry and implications

Platforms have driven the juniorization of the industry to the next level. I have seen kids with 1 year experience being hired.

What are the implications for Junior PMs and more junior PMs? What do guys do with 10-15 years experience who don’t have a seat? Seems an extremely binary market dominated by juniors and Senior PMs.

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longshortequity

HFs have hired kids with 1 year experience for 10+ years now? all the tiger cubs used to hire 1 year IB students for immediate starts, no?

Maybe recently, def not 10y ago…

 

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