+30 Hedge fund out of undergrad... What's the typical salary? 32 12y
+30 Restructuring debt - finance concepts 10 11y
+30 Your opinion on top distress / opportunistic credit shop 13 3y
+30 How to assess the attractiveness of a HF opportunity / heard of Tensile? 15 5y
+30 is it a good idea to include how much profit you made in personal portfolio? 27 1y
+30 Wars between Hedge Funds/PMs 9 1y
+30 New Job. Crazy PM. Feeling Lost. 14 3mo
+30 Jobs for Successful Retail Traders after IB 31 4y
+30 IB>HF for junior comp? 11 4y
+30 How to build HF track record that is worth anything? 11 10y
+30 Capital Structure Analysis Questions 11 2y
+30 Babydick Capital Annual Letter 2013 17 9y
+30 Stalled path to HF/ER 9 1y
+30 Best books to read for a hedge fund analyst 59 9y
+30 Thoughts on sending a 3P comp report to my PM? 12 11mo
+30 Investment Idea 41 9y
+30 How easy is it to go from HF to PE? 23 9y
+30 Which SWFs is the best? 46 9y
+30 DE Shaw L/S equity 15 3y
+30 Advice needed: Offers from Top Performing HF in Hong Kong vs Reputable AM (Fido/Capital/Wellington) 12 6y
+30 Planning to move - how to inform my team? 11 4y
+30 What is a Hedgefund? 10 9y
+30 Diversity at Tiger Cubs 11 4y
+30 Wharton MBA or Top Hedge Fund directly? (overseas office, no US background) 21 6y
+30 Moving from Fund of Funds to Hedge fund 36 8y
+30 Tech sales to HF 19 1y
+30 Millennium London grad programme with UBS 122 1y
+30 Seed capital providers for HF launch? 7 3y
+30 L/S vs Pairs Trading 13 1y
+30 Best Route to a fundamentally driven HF in Londob: IB vs AM? 10 6y
+30 Where do the smartest people work within the finance industry? 35 6y
+30 Risk VS Volatility 7 2y
+30 Which of the next generation pods will be most successful? 15 9mo
+30 What skills do you actually need in MM HF pods? 16 3y
+30 How do you budget for big life decisions given career/comp uncertainty? 8 3y
+30 COHEN'S POINT72 LOSES 10-15% AMID HEDGE FUND LOSSES THIS MONTH 34 5y
+30 Deciding between MM IB and BB ER to eventually break into L/S or Credit HF 9 8y
+30 DE Shaw Activist 30 3y
+30 Managing Drawdowns in MM 11 2y
+30 Senior Debt MODEL - INTV Help 17 6y
+30 Thoughts on Hedge Fund industry painted as villain? 8 5y
+30 Involuntary exodus from ExodusPoint 21 1y
+30 Asset Base Lending 15 8y
+30 Q for MM PMs/Analysts - Which MM and why for a PM seat? 12 2y
+30 Do Macro strategies require more sophisticated quantitative techniques than L/S or Long-only Equities? 13 2y
+30 MSF - WUSTL vs ASU 7 6y
+30 Dodge and Cox Compensation and Culture 4 4y
+30 How Chat Gpt will impact the hf industry 17 3y
+30 A Question for the fellow Quants 33 6y
+30 Exploring a Novel Investment Concept: Purchasing Rights to Future Income 6 2y
+30 How do you come up with a differentiated long pitch 6 2y
+30 How do firms like Eliott & other top HFs generate and validate their ideas? 8 1y
+30 Best path for starting a successful hedge fund in 5 years 27 6y
+30 IB or HF FT Out of Undergrad 15 8mo
+30 Trader + Career Advice = Next Job 18 6y
+30 Breaking into the buyside from a non-target - You can do it 6 6y
+30 del 12 3y
+30 Top target schools for quant hedge fund or quant/algo prop shop? 19 3y
+30 Vitol posts $13B profits for 2023 28 2y
+30 Structured Credit Hedge Fund Post Banking 12 6y
+30 Do you believe that in 20 years you will need to be an exceptionally quantitative person to work in this industry? 8 3y
+30 Dilemma: Switching Jobs 19 4y
+30 Part-time MBA from Stern or Baruch or UConn 8 6y
+30 Passive Liquidity Squeeze 3 1y
+30 Best path to career longevity in HFs: sharing research ideas with other funds? 20 4y
+30 Investing without emotion? 14 5y
+30 13F Filings. How do hedge funds prevent their ideas being stolen? 8 4y
+30 Learn Programming or CFA for Macro Fund? 12 5y
+30 How do you learn to interpret the news? 3 1y
+30 Catalur Capital 19 1y
+30 Anyone following/trading on IMO 2020? 15 6y
+30 Balyasny cuts human-machine hybrid team Synthesis 17 6y
+30 Confidentiality during interviews 13 3y
+30 Path to being a Master of the Universe (SM Founder) 7 9mo
+29 Moving to the buy-side from the sell-side 35 15y
+29 Fundraising 8 13y
+29 Shshshe 16 6mo
+29 HF Final Round Interview - How long to hear back? 20 10y
+29 Transferring from MF PE to HF post MBA 5 6y
+29 WSO Hedge Fund Interview Prep Package in the Works! 34 10y
+29 Unpopular opinion: deep fundamental research is overrated 21 1y
+29 Bulge Brackets and Hedge Funds 5 8y
+29 Real Estate Hedge Funds (RE Stocks Only) 20 1y
+29 Risk premium is a circular concept? (My theory) 19 3y
+29 Tiger Global's Scott Schliefer Out 5 2y
+29 Question about comp in big years 12 3y
+29 Pod shop or top tier LO 20 2y
+29 Building my own factor model to explain share price performance 8 1y
+29 High turnover at Millennium 21 2y
+29 Credit at a pod-shop? 16 10mo
+29 Insight on Oak Hill Advisors? 16 4y
+29 VBA vs Python 7 6y
+29 Best HF Modeling / Case Study Prep 11 2y
+29 Biotechnology or Pharma Primers 11 6y
+29 How do you go about modelling a company on the buy side? 14 6y
+29 Manufactured CDS Default 14 6y
+29 HF Recruiting - Am I being played? 33 4y
+29 Quant Developer in a pod - career advice 5 1y
+29 Bridger Capital - Secret Society: What do you know? 20 4y
+29 Software revenue build - Stuck 22 1y

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  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
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