+22 University courses/path to becoming a QUANT 8 7y
+22 Multistrat/small HF Networking? 12 7y
+22 would you pursue long only equities as a career today? 5 11mo
+22 How to break into Macro HF in London? 12 4y
+22 Pivoting into an investment team role 4 4y
+22 Early 20s Hedge Fund Professional Needs Career Advice 7 3y
+22 Fund Manager Quarterly Bonus Structure 4 6y
+22 Recent Investing/HF books 5 4y
+22 HF Comp Policies: Deferrals, Clawbacks, Draw Clauses 3 5y
+22 GS quant Vs QR/QT in HF 6 3y
+22 Millennium Management - Interview & Culture 13 6y
+22 PE vs HF junior Level 15 4y
+22 Strategic Finance/FP&A vs HF Analyst 20 2y
+22 Poor distressed returns 17 7mo
+22 Top Hedge Funds in the Energy Sphere 8 4y
+22 Is this a fund of funds role - guidance please? 1 6y
+22 Q&A: Macro Hedge Fund Trader/PM 21 2y
+22 UK recruiter claims he can't tell me any clients' names until he has my CV due to GDPR 7 6y
+22 Elliott London 15 5mo
+22 Richard Toad’s pedigree 20 7mo
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+22 How difficult is it to land at a single manager HF after IB? 9 3y
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+22 Anti-sponsor/corporation HF? 11 5y
+22 Urgent Help >> Breaking into HF 7 3y
+22 Med School to Hedge Fund: How to? 10 6y
+22 Advice - IBD Mid Level VP —> HF 12 10mo
+22 Junk bonds / Marks 13 3y
+22 Joining a distressed HF now (2022] 34 2y
+22 CV / Cover Letter Review - coming back after 10 years 6 6y
+22 Post-MBA jobs in Distressed Debt 10 6y
+22 Working for Uncle 25 6y
+22 Verition Summer Internship 27 10mo
+22 Marshall Wace NA Buildout? 18 4y
+22 How to screen credibility / reputation of hedge funds? 11 5y
+22 Best S&T Desks for Transitioning to a HF 26 5y
+22 moving from 1st tier HF to smaller HFs 11 4y
+22 Stupid to go to med school if I want biotech HF? 11 2y
+22 Farallon 35 2y
+22 What Would You Do: Renege MF PC to chase HF dreams? 9 1y
+22 How to get into the top pods 17 1y
+22 After striking out with Penny Stocks, Lenny Dykstra sues author for $100mm 11 6y
+22 HF landscape in London 22 6y
+22 MBA for credit roles (stressed, distressed, opportunistic) 5 6y
+22 What do negative rates mean for equity investing? 12 3y
+22 Active Investing: Bad Career Move? 10 4y
+22 Transitioning from PE to HF 7 5y
+22 Fund wants to fly me out to “visit” 16 4y
+22 Recruiting Full-Time After P72/Citadel/Millenium SA? 14 2y
+22 Hedge Funds With Real Estate Arms 35 4y
+22 Is the person who enters a HF out of 1-2 years in banking “ahead of the game”? 10 6y
+22 Interview process for equity PMs at MMs 10 2y
+22 Advice for Incoming Structured / Securitized Credit HF Analyst 4 2y
+22 How many years do people last at HFs? 11 4y
+22 How would you learn to model if you had to do it all over again? 8 1y
+22 Get feedback on your stock ideas 13 4y
+22 HF reference check 10 8mo
+22 Average/Median IQ in Hedge Funds? 8 6y
+22 Need an Overview on M&A Arbitrage (Modelling specifically) 6 5y
+22 Antara Founder Jumping Ship 7 1y
+22 How do people keep getting seats at MM? 9 6y
+22 Are MM Pods sector beta neutral or market beta neutral? 14 4y
+22 Tail risk funds 6 3y
+22 Looking for Advice: Undergrad who took to long to figure things out 7 4y
+21 General advice dealing with a sector specific downturn 1 2y
+21 Unusual Background 8 2y
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+21 Credit HFs: Possible to switch from munis to corporates? 6 11y
+21 Credits / Investments per Analyst 19 11y
+21 How good does p72 case study have to be? 19 1y
+21 Mathematics or computer science? 9 1y
+21 MM / Pods - Expenses 16 2y
+21 How to deal with job offer anxiety? 2 3y
+21 How to Conceptualize Alpha? 2 1y
+21 L/S Pods in Dubai? How does this work? 10 1y
+21 Need help / Insight on Hedge Fund 1 9y
+21 Career Tracks 9 8y
+21 Best Position 28 5y
+21 Moving from an expert network to a HF 10 8y
+21 What if I flush out of a HF after undergrad? 13 3y
+21 Questions about Bridgewater / Reading Philosophy? 7 8y
+21 Defining Passion for Investing 6 8y
+21 Hartree Partners 9 4y
+21 Better PM than Analyst? 8 2y
+21 From quant to discretionary trader 4 5y
+21 Recommend Pass for MM HF Case Study 7 2y
+21 HF post MBA 12 2y
+21 Headlands Tech Interview & Online Assessment 9 4y
+21 Bridgewater IA vs DESCO PT vs Brevan Howard vs MMs (all for Macro) 17 7mo
+21 Bloomberg HF News: Commentary RE: Multistrats & Spinouts 2 7mo
+21 2nd Year MBA - HF/AM Recruiting Questions 1 7y
+21 MMs involved in Distressed / Special Sits 11 1y
+21 Hedging style factors L/S 4 2y
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+21 Best research on AI + Software 8 1y
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