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+7 DE SHAW Trader/Analyst role 5 2y
+15 Underwriting Multi-Year Stock Investments 3 2y
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+4 Corbets Capital 2 2y
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+32 Advice on Trading Futures for PA 7 2y
0 3 Statement Modeling Test 1 2y
+25 Shorting a Merger in all stock deal 12 2y
+3 How to differentiate pod seats? 1 2y
+17 Hedge Fund Stock Pitch Applciation tips 14 2y
+6 Hedge Fund Stock Pitch Formatting 1 2y
+4 How do Activist HF's screen for investments? 4 2y
+18 How do I land HF from ER? 9 2y
+24 Taula 11 2y
0 What are these SM’s HF’s and their investment strategies ? 1 2y
+17 Best funds / financial firms for AI researchers post PhD 11 1y
+1 Summer Internship at a L/S Credit Hedge Fund 1 2y
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+3 Making your own HF? 5 2y
0 What Should I Do With Finished Stock Pitches? 1 2y
+6 In Need of Help from a Hedge Fund SME 1 2y
0 Brevan Howard Summer Internship (Undergrad) 2 2y
+3 Recruiting for HF during S&T 3 2y
+15 Good Substacks? 5 2y
+7 Moving from CLO at HF to L/S Equity 4 2y
+5 Pod recruiting 5 2y
+26 Pershing Square Valuation 11 2y
+9 Family offices in Switzerland 3 1y
+8 Citadel CAP 2025 FT 14 1y
+68 Do Hedge Funds Value Paper Trading Performance Potential Hires? 28 2y
0 Academic Papers on Macro Investing 1 2y
+135 Interested to hear from average pod PMs 25 1y
+23 Viking CIO Ning Jin Departing 30 1y
+8 Pod Shop FT Offers 8 2y
+36 MM Comp for 2+2 Candidate? 36 2y
+33 Junior analyst - what to look for? 14 2y
+1 Am Going to Try this again 2 2y
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0 Treasury at hedge funds 1 2y
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+5 Degree for Global Macro/Quant 3 2y
+9 Ivey HBA + CS/Financial Modelling vs Waterloo + Laurier Math (Mathematical Finance)/BBA 4 2y
+45 Why did Citadel hit the dumps in 2008? 11 2y
+9 Is the case study normally the final round? 3 2y
+6 Negotiating start date 3 2y
+13 Meritage Group - Any Info? 7 6mo
+23 Please rate this sub pm deal for me 12 2y
0 SearchOne Coverage? 3 2y
+10 Is HF dominated by Math/Physics/CS/Stats majors? 5 2y
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+3 WhiteHawk Capital 1 2y
+6 Moving from SDA in Healthcare to a fundamental seat in a Biotech team 1 2y
+227 The emotional rollercoaster of trading for HF 66 1y
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0 Caxton Associates - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 2y
0 PM Exit Opportunities 1 2y
+7 How many Pod PMs are making secret factor bets? 3 2y
+5 MM offer deadlines 4 2y
+1 Choosing major 6 2y
+17 Earnings season 13 2y
+5 ER v.s IB v.s AM for breaking into HF 5 2y
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+15 List of large SMs that still have a longer term investment horizon? 16 2y
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+13 DE Shaw career advice 10 2y
+6 List of activist investor HFs? 1 2y
+30 Risk VS Volatility 7 2y
+27 Advice - IB to Investing (Regret?) 9 2y
+18 How Long Before Team Gets Cut 25 2y
0 Full Time Opportunities in HF Space. 1 2y
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+18 Does cfa matter? 9 1y
+8 How do you justify active management? 22 2y
0 Infrastructure PE to MMHF 2 1y
+10 What is Good in HF? 8 2y
+4 MMHF Tier 1 Training Program vs Tier 2/3+ Analyst Seat 6 2y
+3 BB Special Sits Desk 1 2y
0 Point72 - Salary & Bonus - Healthcare Data 2y
+9 Hedge fund operations - what does your day to day look like? 2 2y
+53 Undergrad HF Internships? 35 7mo
+10 Junior Summer: Long Only AM vs High Yield Research at a BB 3 2y
+19 Are distressed HFs still viable? 12 2y
+2 MMHF Valuation Methods 2 2y
+12 Barclays HF group exits 6 2y
+3 Credit Rating Agency to Private Credit switch 1 2y
+7 Analyst at C/M/P72 in London - How to Get to New York in the Future? 3 2y
+6 Delta 1 primer 3 2y
+7 I'm interning at a prestigious hedge fund this summer, but have been studying CS. What should I learn? 4 2y
+6 Generalist HF/AM in TX & FL 4 6mo
+2 How to ramp coverage on semiconductors? 4 2y
+15 Credit comps 9 2y
+9 10 years in EM sellside - want to relocate to US 2 2y
+6 FoF analyst vs Prop Trader out of UG? 1 2y
+16 Road to Working at a Hedge Fund? 14 2y
+23 Best path from Infra PE in Asia to HF in London or US (MBA in US?LBS MiF?) 12 2y
+3 Start-up / Commodity Pool Operator 2 2y
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