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+15 Maximizing My Distressed Credit Hedge Fund Internship – Advice? 4 1y
+15 Why won’t this work? 7 7y
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+15 PhD & tips for portfolio manager career 3 2y
+15 Bloomberg Tips/Hacks/Recs 7 2y
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+15 Quarter Life Cross Roads 5 2y
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+15 Long/Short Investment Grade Credit at a Multi Manager 1 6y
+15 Will hedge fund wait for candidate with non compete(middle/back office role) 6 3y
+15 Valuation methods used at Distressed/credit funds? 4 6y
+15 Quant Strat to Front office money management 2 4y
+15 Earnings Previews and Reviews — PM expectations? 10 1y
+15 Non-compete for hedgefund 14 5y
+15 How does Wall Street use capital allocation to benefit the world? 11 5y
+15 Sixth Street Fundamental Strategies 14 2y
+15 Chance of Becoming a Quant 1 5y
+15 My revised version of retail All Weather 3 5y
+15 Best degree for Global Macro HF 8 2y
+15 Best Twitter Accounts - Fundamental Equity L/S 5 5y
+15 How to get into a global macro HF? 7 3y
+15 HF Case Study - Projected Balance Sheet Required? 5 5y
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+15 Baker Brothers 10 4y
+15 Have failed to make it past the case study round multiple times now...How to improve? 6 2y
+15 Venture capital darlings that grew during the last bull run and IPO'd in the last 2-3 years - please name any you can think of in this thread! 2 4y
+15 Lateral Pod Moves - Advice? 1 1y
+15 Joining a HF that refuses to fundraise on principle? 7 2y
+15 Which benefits / perks are most culture-enhancing for you? 15 5y
+15 How buttoned up do cold email pitches need to be? 3 2y
+15 Workstation / Monitor Setup 5 3y
+15 Breaking into a Hedge Fund from Middle Market ER 10 5y
+15 Best non-IG L/S credit pods? 7 1y
+15 10 Years from now this bear market will likely be viewed as a speed bump. Change my mind 4 3y
+15 MMHF —> Activist 10 2y
+15 Low AUM after 15 years - red flag? 7 3y
+15 Macro Investing Transition 1 5y
+15 Thoughts on Holocene Advisors? 9 2y
+15 Give me the hard truth 2 5y
+15 Want to break into finance, wondering if I can do without a degree 4 1y
+15 Ph.D. With Exp - Career Path Advice 4 5y
+15 Pay raise? 6 5y
+15 Old Fund Refusing To Cooperate As A Reference (Starting Competing Fund) 12 2y
+15 Career progression: L/S Equity vs Prop Trading vs IBD 0 3y
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+15 Megafund credit arms 3 3y
+15 Can new PMs hire analysts from their previous HF? 10 3y
+15 Large HFs in SF / Bay Area 10 2y
+15 Interest in buyside growth modeling guide and example (from an analyst)? 1 5y
+15 Sr Analyst @ SM L/S - interviewing after 3 YOE 6 4y
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