Hi all
I have perused many profiles who don't list an actual employer - rather they enter "New York based Hedge Fund" for example. Why is this? Do some funds not allow employees to advertise that they work there and if so, why? I would hazard a guess it would be concerns of poaching?
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I don't have an answer to your question. Just here to say great user name.
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yeah some funds just like to keep a very very low profile. it can be for a variety of reasons. poaching is probably one of them. for quant funds ive heard people keep it secret so that other places dont figure out what kind of strategies they're running. If people know they hired so and so person from xyz field then that might give them ideas
Just being a 1st year analyst in a HF and I have been told not to put a description of my job on LinkedIn. I can only put that I work in "equities" in "company XYZ" even if the strategies I cover are very vanilla. So I guess some fund even ask you not to say that you work for them... I've asked my PM and he does not want to be linked to any specific strategy through me. Some PMs might be even more paranoid...
Of course no. I am not that stupid.
Sounds like exactly what someone at ExodusPoint would say.
That was a last bit! You are fired!
Antisemitic? Even Israel hates Soros.
The dudes a bond villain to the public eye, whether it's warranted or not. Claims of anti semitism because of distrust of him are largely unfounded except for fringe groups
Soros is a primary capital source of community agitators across the US. He makes volatility bets then uses his political clout/network to spark volatility.
He's connected to everything from Black Lives Matter to the migrant caravans.
Soros is one of many sources of funding for a variety of community groups. Soros isn't funding caravans from Latin America. He is funding support for refugees, whose plight he understood as a Jew who had to leave Germany during the Nazi era. As for BLM, in what way is advocating for fairer policing agitating the community? You speak as if the right doesn't fund their own "community agitators" like the NRA or the white supremacy groups doing the marches. Those groups outrage not just communities, but the nation as a whole. Also Soros no longer trades and his most profitable trades were often directional, not volatility-based.
NRA isn't an agitation group - it is a defender of our second amendment. Would you like to live in a society without rights/freedom? If so, feel free to relocate to China. Also - there are more firearms than people in the USA, so do explain how a door-to-door confiscation would realistically happen.
There is a difference between assistance to refugees and unlimited uncontrolled migration of individuals who are uneducated, do not speak our language, and do not wish to assimilate. Immigration should be a controlled merit based system.
Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin collectively killed over 50 million people (conservative estimate). Tyranny occurs when Individuals have no means to protect themselves against an increasingly powerful State.
I would think that a lot of people use LinkedIn as an online rolodex because when you meet people and want to stay connected, it's so much easier to just add on LinkedIn than having your assistant input their info from their business card and then confirming the info on an ongoing basis. One of my partner still has his assistant call and confirm every single contact he has on a yearly basis to ensure they don't go stale and it drives the entire office crazy!!! My profile hardly has any info on it and I can't say that I really care, but I really value the direct connection LinkedIn gives me to practically everyone I have done business with over the last 10+ years.
I know for Elliott, they do that for security reasons, like if all the third world countries they vultured and litigated want reconciliation.
I'll take my time and write a long answer for this later on today or tomorrow. As a short answer: it has all to do with privacy.
Came here expecting to hear about hedge fund employee profiles on linkedIn.....ended up reading a debate on gun control.