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It's almost random, as it is with nearly every top SM fund in the UK. They open up a position every few years and hire from various backgrounds without clear criteria - depending on needs around industry/country specialization, years at buy-side (sometimes they want sell-siders or the other way around), who from the team is running the hiring process (specific biases), etc. It's borderline lottery. 

 
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I couldn't give less of a fuck if they owned three stocks or just put all the funds money in Google. As long as I get paid tens of millions of dollars working for renowned investor at a super stable seat then thats all I care about 

 

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