+13 Cold Email Hedge Funds to set up an informational interview? 4 9y
+12 Comprehensive buy-side breakdown 3 9y
0 Help Getting Started... Or is it too late? 0 6y
0 Moving from NY Energy IB to non-energy specific HF? 0 6y
+21 Citadel vs Goldman Sachs offer advice 10 9y
+7 Quantitative Techniques 2 9y
+4 10 Year Treasury Note Calculation 4 6y
0 Anyone have experience with RGA events for fundraising? 1 9y
0 Summer Analyst 2018 New England Area 0 6y
+39 Columbia Engineering vs Carnegie Mellon Engineering 15 6y
0 UK London Trading Qualifications 0 6y
+9 Strongest path to Distressed Debt HFs 5 7y
0 Portfolio Managers, Analysts or Professional Traders of any sort (Interview- Personal Questions) 0 6y
0 Hedge Fund Internship 0 9y
0 What is the future of the hedge fund industry and will non-automated/quant strategies be able to compete? 0 9y
+18 Monkey has 2nd thoughts after a few months 7 9y
+102 Eric Mindich’s Eton Park Hedge Fund to Close Down and Who's Next ? 44 9y
+7 Point72 Summit 21 5y
0 New to WSO - looking for fellow discretionary global macro monkeys 0 9y
+11 Transitioning from Market-neutral strategy funds 3 7y
0 Ascend Capital 0 9y
+18 HF Naming: Gravitas indicates poor performance 8 9y
0 Does anybody have any Clarium quarterly letters? 1 9y
+12 Stanford GSB v Wharton? 14 8y
+13 Global Macro HF vs BB Research 6 9y
0 Moving from a top MM to a distressed debt hedge fund 4 6y
+1 Paulson Partner Committed Suicide 2 6y
+22 Acceptable cold email to hedge fund? 9 9y
0 Definition of a Crowded Trade 1 9y
+48 Mid-career crossroads help 12 7y
0 BlackList Monitor Gives Businesses Options to Ensure Opt-in Email Gets Through 0 9y
+51 Value Investors wanted (in Paris) 6 6y
0 Do interns have to preclear trades with compliance? 0 9y
0 "Director of People" 0 6y
+20 Buyside comp - vesting component 10 9y
+69 Joining Start Up Hedge Fund - What to Expect 36 4y
0 Need Advice: I Want to Start a Small Investment Fund with My Father 1 6y
+64 Minimum Size of a Good Hedge Fund 32 8y
0 Trader intern interview with AQR? 0 9y
0 Looking for collaboration (algo trading) 1 9y
0 Lateraling to Another HF 0 9y
+100 Differentiating yourself for hedge fund recruiting (post-IB) 43 9y
+12 Would Anyone Care to Review My Pitch 20 7y
0 surprise merger in stock pitch 2 9y
+7 Recruitment for internationals 0 9y
0 Putting Portfolio Manager's names on resume 0 9y
+80 Is short selling ethical? 37 9y
0 Best career-path for non-traditional 1 9y
+3 Outline for Stock Pitch 1 9y
+9 Why does Point72 have so many employees? 2 9y
0 Applying online to Hedge Funds with pitch 1 9y
0 Divide between Quants and Fund Managers 0 9y
+30 How easy is it to go from HF to PE? 23 9y
+18 Please explain prop trading deals to me... 6 8y
+17 Can I eventually work at a biotech analyst? 5 8y
0 Is Active Management Really Dying? 0 9y
+13 Hedge Fund Internship - Suggestions? 1 6y
0 What it's like to be a woman in the hedge fund business 1 9y
+12 Citadel vs. Two Sigma: The Race to Get the Best Quants 3 3y
0 Rejected 3 9y
+23 What is the work culture of a hedge fund? 12 9y
0 Transitioning From IR Role To Analyst Role At Fund 0 9y
0 how similar is HY credit analysis to EQ 0 9y
0 From US Investment Banking to International HF 0 9y
0 Business/Data Analyst Role at Hedge Fund 0 6y
+3 N/A worked it out 0 9y
0 IT guy joining a hedge fund. Need some advice. 0 6y
+15 Sub-Prime Auto Market 8 4y
0 What's to stop hedge funds from stealing your pitched ideas? (If your "ideas" have nothing proprietary) 1 9y
+6 Reading WSJ, no idea where to start 4 9y
0 Ray Dalio is stepping down at Bridgewater 0 9y
+158 Opinion: Herbalife vs. Ackman, four years later 173 9y
+12 Tontine Asset Management 5 8y
+30 Investment Idea 41 9y
+24 The "Fair-value-to-arrive equity" of Noble Group. How a trader exploits a loophole in the system. 0 9y
+29 Transferring from MF PE to HF post MBA 5 6y
0 Generalists - Research Process 1 9y
+57 Breaking it into the hedge fund industry in Toronto 16 6y
+9 Improving as an Analyst / Investor 1 9y
0 Capital Raising: What do Dir of Reseach/Invesment Comittees Look For?? 0 6y
0 DE Shaw 5 6y
+22 Family office based hedge fund - Compensation structure 2 9y
0 Make BW3 Great Again? Marcato Capital Management Publishes Takedown Deck 3 9y
0 Seeking Fund to partner in our Gov. backed Real Estate investment platform in the Five Boroughs of NY 0 6y
+16 Thoughts on FinTech industry as a career? Specifically Order/Portfolio Management System software 5 9y
0 Forensic Accountant/Analyst position 0 9y
0 Networking and Public Markets 2 9y
0 Trian Partners Builds $3 Billion Stake in P&G 1 9y
0 Point72 Superday Process? 2 4y
0 Generalists in Today's Global Macro Environment 1 9y
0 What requirements do i need to meet to become a liquidity provider in FX? 0 9y
0 Not a stock based compensation expense question... 0 9y
+33 Will hedge funds beat the market again? 5 9y
0 Top Hedge Funds on the West Coast and exit opps? 3 6y
+33 G-Research - Hedge fund or not? 14 3y
+10 Hedge teams for the summer: special situations or long/short 3 9y
+54 CFA and HF Recruiting 30 9y
+15 Backtesting commodities futures 9 9y
0 Mezvinsky's (hillary donor) investors pull (now that the connection to hillary is less valuable) 1 9y
+183 Q&A: Former hedge fund junior trader/analyst 112 6y

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