+15 Pay raise? 6 5y
+15 Post Update - Selling Algorithms to HFs 3 3y
+15 Advice for starting my own fund 12 7mo
+15 Quantitative Fund of Funds (FoF) 2 2y
+15 How buttoned up do cold email pitches need to be? 3 2y
+15 Which hedge funds are TRULY capital structure agnostic? 4 3y
+15 HF vs GE ( 11 3y
+15 How to make it clear to someone at work that I want to join their team? 2 3y
+15 Which Do You Prefer R or Python? 18 5y
+15 BB Systematic Trader or Quant at a new hf pod 2 2y
+15 Interest in buyside growth modeling guide and example (from an analyst)? 1 5y
+15 Old Fund Refusing To Cooperate As A Reference (Starting Competing Fund) 12 2y
+15 Consensus? 4 3y
+15 Moving from Private Credit to Hedge Funds 1 9mo
+15 Best distressed trades of the decade thread? 5 5y
+15 Large HFs in SF / Bay Area 10 2y
+15 Fx forwards liquidity 9 5y
+15 Citadel GQS 1 5y
+15 Sub-Prime Auto Market 8 5y
+15 Quitting in 3 months. Signing/Relocation Clawback? 2 5y
+15 Best Place to Find Open Roles 1 2y
+15 List of large SMs that still have a longer term investment horizon? 16 2y
+15 Recruiters are not negotiators 12 2y
+15 Best non-IG L/S credit pods? 7 1y
+15 Who are the best MM / SM Financials guys on the street? 15 6mo
+15 I somehow got a MM HF internship, please help? 2 4y
+15 Hedge Fund Skillset & Day-to-Day 3 4y
+15 Career change to analyst at small SM L/S 5 6mo
+15 Hedge fund investor letters and presentations 14 4y
+15 Underwriting Multi-Year Stock Investments 3 2y
+15 Mid-30s Career Change 3 4y
+15 Moving from a large pureplay credit HF to a more cross capital structure seat 2 3y
+15 Quitting as a junior/mid-level due to seniors/heads being remote for the foreseeable future?? 7 4y
+15 Corp Dev vs Hedge Funds? 1 4y
+15 "What do you want to buy today?" 11 4y
+15 Hedging Mkt Exuberance: IWM Puts > SPY Puts 5 12mo
+15 5QQQ - 5X Leveraged QQQ 10 4y
+15 Endowment Investing Role vs BB Investment Banking for HF Placement? 10 1y
+15 Nootropics (Modafinil etc.) in Hedge Funds 31 4y
+15 Workstation / Monitor Setup 5 3y
+15 Getting up to speed on TMT / Consumer 6 4y
+15 How Do Hedge Funds Impact Companies? 3 2y
+15 PM question: what are you trying to express? 1 4y
+15 How do you know if public equity is really what you want? 8 4y
+15 WLB as an associate at HF and trajectory thereafter - how easy is it to start a family / spend time with family outside of work? 1 3y
+15 Citadel Associate Program Quality vs. BB/EB summer analyst 26 2y
+15 Track record requirements for PM positions 15 4y
+15 Maximizing My Distressed Credit Hedge Fund Internship – Advice? 4 1y
+15 Secured bonds (distressed) 7 4y
+15 PhD & tips for portfolio manager career 3 2y
+15 Sixth Street Fundamental Strategies 14 2y
+15 Value Investors, What's Your Discount Rate? 5 4y
+15 Bloomberg Tips/Hacks/Recs 7 2y
+15 Are HFs a Good Place to Start a Career? 2 4y
+15 Pershing Square Capital Management Compensation 7 4y
+15 Market check on compensation 14 4y
+15 I need your advice - please help 5 4y
+15 % PnL for Longs Vs. Shorts 5 2y
+15 HF Dta Science Career Trajectory 7 2y
+15 PE to HF route 1 2y
+15 Can new PMs hire analysts from their previous HF? 10 3y
+15 Does HayFin have a public credit hedge fund arm? 4 3y
+15 Women's Networking in HF Industry 4 4y
+15 PE to HF 1 4y
+15 MMHF —> Activist 10 2y
+15 Which Hedge Funds Recruit At Stanford GSB? 17 4y
+14 Who is the biggest BSD on WSO? 18 14y
+14 Credit Research Questions 20 14y
+14 6 months as a credit analyst and not enjoying the job - options? 2 10y
+14 Distressed interview question 9 10y
+14 How quick are MMs to pull the plug? 20 2y
+14 Yuan options (puts) 14 10y
+14 PIMCO Corporate Credit/Special Situations 16 2y
+14 Fundamental roles at traditionally strong quant HF's. 3 8y
+14 Hedge fund vs. PE recruiting 21 8y
+14 Anyone have information on Anchorage? 11 8y
+14 Getting an internship with a hedge fund via a connection 3 8y
+14 Baupost Mandate 4 3y
+14 Pure Finance / Econ. Books for Different Investing Strategies 8 4y
+14 momentum = the real margin of safety 7 2y
+14 How do pods have 1+ Sharpe, when they shoot for 4-5% on GMV, and risk free rate is ~5%? 5 1y
+14 changing the reference sequence in DTW 1 6y
+14 Would you join a first time PM pod? 14 1y
+14 RFP Writing to Investor Relations at a Fund? 2 6y
+14 Sole analyst at a small L/S fund - am I at a major disadvantage? 4 1y
+14 Del 4 3y
+14 Hedge Funds' view on cheap stocks?: EV/Sales<0.2, EV/EBITDA < 2 3 6y
+14 Energy Hedge Fund or Boutique Investment Banking 2 6y
+14 Compensation at Hedge Fund? 5 5y
+14 Idiots completing the CFA 11 1y
+14 O&G Banking to Distressed Investing? 7 5y
+14 Starting a hedge fund 3 5y
+14 Best funds that focus primarily on (1) tech (e.g., hardware, consumer internet, enterprise software) and (2) consumer 3 2y
+14 CLO Structuring to HF 1 2y
+14 Quarterly vs semi-annual reporting 5 1y
+14 Final round interview...with a risk manager? 4 2y
+14 Path from IB to HF? 5 5y
+14 Mental framework - Activist investing 8 3y
+14 The Dot-Com Bubble 13 1y
+14 I want to be in a hedge fund 1 3y

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