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+26 Q&A: M&A Analyst Turned HF MO Operations Manager -- Ask Me Anything 9 1y
0 Long / Short Equity Books 1 1y
+13 Quant dev offer vs current faang job 3 1y
+15 Activist pitch needed for activist interview? 4 1y
+7 Private Account Performance: Why or Why Not? 1 1y
+69 The Best Distressed HFs in 2024 41 1y
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+28 Millennium FT Program Reputation in 2024 23 1y
+18 Cevian Capital – Analyst 20 1y
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+87 Multistrat terms for PM's 55 1y
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0 Fair Play 1 1y
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+9 3bn+ under the radar funds with lean single-digit investment teams? 18 1y
+26 Pershing Square Valuation 11 1y
+6 How to get a robust cross correlation relationship between variables. 1 1y
+6 Citadel Credit / Career Navigation 1 1y
0 Do I cold message recruiters or portfolio managers? 1 1y
+15 Macro Pod Groups 1 1y
+9 Interested in buy-side career: Advice for rising junior in undergrad? 4 1y
+28 Coming up with trackers for input costs? 6 1y
+22 Advice Wanted: Large HF Internship from No-Name School 3 1y
+6 Balyasny Merger Arb Pod Drawdown Limits 1 1y
+24 What are the differences between different MMs? 9 1y
+6 Software Engineer -> Quant Researcher advice 2 1y
+8 How do you justify active management? 22 1y
+9 Moving from HF to Corporate Role Questions 3 1y
+9 Hedge Fund Interview Case Study Debrief - what now? 3 1y
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+5 PE or IB for HF route? 8 1y
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+3 Do hedge funds trade on IPOs? 9 1y
+12 Best Buy to Hedge Fund 10 1y
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+17 Sign on bonus for PM positions at MMs 5 1y
+54 What are the non-negotiables that make a good fundemental l/s analyst? 14 1y
+23 help me move from PE to HF please 35 1y
+14 Reaching out to MM PMs - risky? 4 1y
+25 Joining a Startup HF out of college? 4 1y
+16 Rockefeller Fundamental Equity 13 1y
+9 Progress to Hedge Fund Management 1 1y
+9 Seed Capital / Incubator for Emerging Manager 2 1y
+14 HF Wider Reading 6 1y
0 SIG SA 2025 Trading Assessment 0 1y
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+3 Long/Short Credit Fund Comp Help 1 1y
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+9 Get into hedge fund in US - through MBA or ? 3 1y
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+18 "Pitch me a stock" for SA interviews 12 1y
+3 Ideation 1 1y
+22 What do you miss out on by not working at a Hedge Fund? 9 1y
+10 H1B Visa Sponsor - Hedge Funds 5 1y
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+35 Q&A: Tech Hedge Fund Quantitative 20 1y
+28 Pod mayhem 22 1y
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0 DE Shaw 2025 Summer Analyst Interview process 1 1y
0 Discovery Capital 1 1y
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+4 For case studies, how deep do I have to know the company? 5 1y
+11 Travel for MMHF 5 1y
+3 Biotech / Therapeutics Investing In LA 4 1y
+51 Why is Mercury Partners even in business? 34 1y
+14 Gfdfg 3 1y
+15 Do you have to be absolutely obsessed with the markets to succeed? 3 1y
0 Research Analyst at MFO to HF? 1 1y
+19 Comp expectations in small fund 13 1y
+10 Excel extension to automatically fetch and link company financials/metrics 1 1y
+4 Quant funds in west coast 4 1y
0 Pod Promise Land 1 1y
0 Which funds hire industry experts for their investment team? 1 1y
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