LO / MM HF Recruiting out of MBA
I started my career at McKinsey and left after 4 years (promoted to EM right before I left) to a UMM PE as an associate. I’ve now been at the fund for 6 months.
Looking to do an MBA at HSW for a mix of personal and professional reasons. My longterm goal has always been to move into a public markets role, either LO or a MM HF. To that end, trying to get some perspective on whether buy side would massively value the 2 years of PE or if I could effectively recruit after 1 year. Talk track would be, performed really well at McKinsey, did 1 year at PE prior to MBA to get some buy side experience, with the expected goal of getting into public markets.
Biggest questions are:
- How would recruiters think about 1 year in PE?
- With this background, how likely am I to land in one of the major MM HFs?
- Anything else I can do to make myself more competitive for this process? (e.g., CFA, in semester internships, etc.)
- Any blowback during MBA recruiting due to poor feedback from the fund, given I’m not staying the expected 2 years?
- Anything else I should be thinking about???
Appreciate the insight! Quite a niche situation so couldn’t find anything directly relevant.
Hi - I'm at an m7 looking to do LO/HF recruiting post graduation (I didn't do consulting but also am from a somewhat career switch)
4. No one in publics is going to talk to your old PE fund unless they happen to be close friends with someone there. PE and public markets folks don't tend to be that professionally close.
5. Stanford places well in LO. Capital always takes a few Stanford people. Columbia is possibly the best given the value investing program and opportunity to do an in-semester internship while being in NYC. HBS and Wharton are also key feeders to LO.
Can one get into a LO straight out of a 2 yr IB program? What’s the difference between the ER analyst positions say at a Wellington or at a T Rowe? Those all require years of experience…
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