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+19 What Harvard Business School is Teaching This Tech Entrepreneur 4 13y
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+19 Discretionary Trading Summer Analyst Interview 21 8y
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+19 Bridgewater (HedgeFund) vs. Tier 2 Consulting Firm 16 11y
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+19 Why Do So Many PE Firms Have Long/Short Credit Hedge Fund Units 6 11y
+19 Q&A: Target to megafund Straight out of college 15 11y
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+19 Interesting European credit names? 9 6y
+19 Market-Neutral Vs. Beta-Neutral 8 10y
+19 Need help in making choice for undergrad school (Yale, Princeton, Columbia with scholarship) 17 9y
+19 Mid-Sized Hedge Fund Compensation (Non-target->MM IB->Mid-sized HF) 10 6y
+19 I have a one week internship. Now what? 11 8y
+19 Need some help re: hedge fund internship cold emails 8 9y
+19 If you want to start a Hedge Fund 3 6y
+19 Best UPENN clubs to join for buyside? 14 8y
+19 Differences between Special Situations Funds 4 8y
+19 Managing AUM less then 100M 5 6y
+19 Distressed HF Internship Interview Preparation (Undergraduate) 9 5y
+19 Bridgewater vs AQR vs Point72 2 8y
+19 "Quiz" on intellectual horsepower - how to improve on this? 2 7y
+19 Paul Singer : The Doomsday Investor 8 3y
+19 AI in trading? 8 7y
+19 looking further then only for the "big names"... 4 6y
+19 Brevan Howard London / Moore / Caxton 7 4y
+19 SS ER > HF. Network in from SS or MBA? 4 7y
+19 Margin of safety and applicable measurements 4 7y
+19 Point72 London Reputation/Prestige 7 6y
+19 Bridgewater and Point72 not good for long-term career? 19 2y
+19 Q&A: Macro Hedge Fund Trader/PM 21 2y
+19 Micro-Cap/Small-Cap HF exits? 7 7y
+19 D.E. Shaw internship application rejection weird phrasing. 7 7y
+19 Advice on starting offshore fund in Caribbean 6 5y
+19 Life at a small Hedge Fund 5 7y
+19 MBA and age question 5 7y
+19 Corporate Finance to Equity Analyst Feasibility? 5 6y
+19 Q&A: Engineering to Portfolio Manager to MBA 2 6y
+19 Consulting/Corporate Strategy to Hedge Fund 9 5y
+19 Standard non-competes - is 1 year a lot? 9 6y
+19 does anyone know anything about king street capital? 21 6y
+19 Internship in High-School 7 5y
+19 Where does the Bridgewater shuttle pick up from in NYC? 12 6y
+19 (Please Please Help) Choosing a Major 5 6y
+19 What's it like? 12 6y
+19 Is this a dead-cat bounce or the bottom investors have been waiting for? Dow Jones up to 20% in the last 7 days 1 6y
+19 Cubist down 20% exposes the scam of Hedge Funds - They are all beta 6 3y
+19 Multimanager platform personalities 4 5y
+19 Resources for learning about distressed debt investing 4 5y
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+19 solo PM at MM platform 15 5y
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+19 How to switch to competing HF without burning bridges 4 5y
+19 Fundamental Analysts at Quant Shops 45 1y
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+19 Hf pay this year 10 5y
+19 Books to read for those looking to break into the HF industry? 18 5y
+19 Can a small business build an internal investment fund? 5 5y
+19 Has anyone here actually used Python code to make an investment decision? 17 5y
+19 Secondaries —> HF? 13 4y
+19 HF Investment Style - Single Manager vs Pod Funds 5 5y
+19 Long Only to Hedge Fund? 16 2y
+19 London: Top MM Hedge Fund - Compensation - financial planning 14 5y
+19 GPA - How long does it matter? 8 5y
+19 Point72 Spring 2021 Experienced Academy Interview MegaThread 112 4y
+19 Econ major to Macro HF 15 5y
+19 Operational Improvements as Core Thesis with No Ops Background 12 4y
+19 Move from HF to Prop Shop? 6 4y
+19 Index Inclusions & How to predict them. 27 4y
+19 Jumping products - HF trading 2 4y
+19 I want to write an investment thesis. How do I even get started? 6 4y
+19 Hedge fund counterparty risk role? 5 4y
+19 Best graduate programs for Global Macro trading? 11 4y
+19 Cost of a noncompete 8 4y
+19 Thoughts on Attestor? 12 2y
+19 HF Modeling/Pitching help 6 4y
+19 My algos are up 75% YTD. (Post Update) 19 2y
+19 Insider trading 11 4y
+19 WYR: Higher Base or Higher TC? 17 4y
+19 ECM trades at hedge funds, how do they make $$? 7 4y
+19 Life in Toronto? 8 3y
+19 Undergrad Senior w/ IB offer takes CFA Level 1? 5 4y
+19 Communicating with your PM 10 4y
+19 Geopolitical/Espionage Focused Funds 6 4y
+19 Convertible Arb Thoughts 9 4y
+19 Distressed Investing 20 4y
+19 Qube Research and Technologies (QRT) 3 3y
+19 Southern California Hedge Fund guide 16 10mo
+19 Reverse Kelly criterion? 5 4y
+19 Hong Kong Buy side 15 2y
+19 Unclear Path Forward 4 4y
+19 Tired and overwhelmed. think I'm in the wrong job 7 4y
+19 Question About Macro MM HFs (Brevan, Caxton, Bluecrest, etc)??? 14 3y

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