+5 BD at AQR 5 5y
+5 Intrinsic Value Q 3 5y
+5 Life at an activist HF 4 5y
+5 What's next after working at a HF? 9 5y
+5 Trading vs Research for Macro HF 11 3y
+5 is the HF industry really dying? 10 5y
+5 Fair salary 1 5y
+5 Point72 Accelerator Case Study 14 4y
+5 HF Comp at 2B fund 14 5y
+5 Any funds where people remind you of Aspergers? 5 5y
+5 Got interested in merger arbitrage lately, any book suggestion? 5 5y
+5 Are Porter's Five Forces/ SWOT analysis valuable for tech companies? 1 5y
+5 Off-Cycle Internship application 14 5y
+5 Headhunter pushing to start ASAP 6 5y
+5 Current state of WSB & GME 3 5y
+5 Big difference between paper book performance and real PnL at MM 13 5y
+5 London: do "boutique" hedge funds exist? 6 5y
+5 Resources for special sits 7 5y
+5 WorldQuant Info 8 5y
+5 Thoughts on Valiant Capital Partners? 9 1y
+5 Paulson & Co? 11 5y
+5 Sculptor Real Estate 5 4y
+5 Alternative Data Funds 3 4y
+5 Hedge Fund FT Recruiting 9 5y
+5 Searching for a classic book on trading 7 5y
+5 Hedge Fund Headcount for $200M fund 7 5y
+5 HF cash comp holdback/vesting 6 5y
+5 Ruane Cunniff & Goldfarb 2021 Reputation 4 4y
+5 Investment banking vs sales and trading 3 5y
+5 HF Taxes 6 4y
+5 Why am I “doomed” 5 4y
+5 Relation between stock price and trading volume? 3 4y
+5 Which funds recruit FT undergrad? 1 4y
+5 P72 Academy Experienced Associate Programme 1 4y
+5 How should I prepare for an interview with a single manager hf that invests in both public equities and private assets? 0 3y
+5 Best stock pitch recommendation 6 4y
+5 Why move from distressed HF to RX? 2 4y
+5 Which internship to take if I'm interested in eventually working as a QR at an HF? 4 4y
+5 Price and Volume Components for SaaS 2 4y
+5 Healthcare Shops 7 4y
+5 How to get a job as a quantitative researcher 2 4y
+5 1st Call with Dynamics - what to expect? 5 4y
+5 Option question 2 4y
+5 CTA Strategies 5 2y
+5 Unusual Path to HF 6 4y
+5 Quant Head Size to Booty Size Ratio as an indicator of Alpha 1 4y
+5 Swaps in PA? 4 4y
+5 On gang 10 3y
+5 To All Quants: How much historical data required to build algo? 3 4y
+5 Very young funds? 2 4y
+5 How are funds doing right now? 55 4y
+5 How often analysts get fired 8 4y
+5 Tips for getting into VIC? 19 3y
+5 Thoughts on Glenview? 5 4y
+5 Maplelane Capital - Leon Shaulov 14 4y
+5 Thoughts on Viking? 6 4y
+5 How are funds doing right now? 6 4y
+5 Depreciation Schedule 5 4y
+5 Unlevered FCF growth too high and termina value as a % of Implied value too high 2 4y
+5 Quick question:where does the fed get the funds for QE? 10 4y
+5 How do CLO funds make money? 9 4y
+5 SaaS company unit economics and ROIC? 4 4y
+5 Starting A Hedge Fund 9 4y
+5 UK HFs (AKO/TCI/Theleme/Lansdowne) to US HFs (Tiger/Lone Pine/Viking) 5 4y
+5 What type of hedgefunds play earnings with options? 3 4y
+5 Levered long tech is not a hedge fund strategy 1 4y
+5 Meeting LPs 6 4y
+5 Tiger Global losses for the year 52% after drop in May 4 4y
+5 Small UMM PE HF exits (eg THL/WCAS sized, not Advent/New Mountain sized) 4 4y
+5 Discretionary Trading Seat at Hedge Fund 1 4y
+5 Sound Shore Management? 3 4y
+5 Best books on top down thinking 2 3y
+5 How is Aquatic Capital Management? 5 3y
+5 Del 6 3y
+5 Top Commodity Firms/Groups NYC 5 3y
+5 Dorsal capital management? 8 3y
+5 TPG Public Equity and Bain Public Equity 2 3y
+5 Polar / Marina Meyers 6 3y
+5 HF vs IB 2 3y
+5 Do fund managers like old Soros and Burry still exist? 3 3y
+5 Short selling 1 3y
+5 Mercury Partners 9 3y
+5 Quality LO in Europe 5 3y
+5 Long/short equity at MM to canadian pension fund? Have you seen it happen? 3 3y
+5 Value Chain Analysis 6 3y
+5 Quit dreaming 1 3y
+5 Does the PEGY ratio make sense? 2 3y
+5 How to bet on recession in <1yr? 3 3y
+5 Biggest names in biopharma l/s? 3 3y
+5 Eccentric reading recommendations 6 3y
+5 Is posting investment ideas on Substack meaningful to getting into buyside 2 3y
+5 Can Managing Directors get you an internship 2 3y
+5 Thoughts on Brevan Howard? 4 3y
+5 Going from IB to HF 6 3y
+5 Crossover/HF Investing Post Tech Banking 6 3y
+5 DEShaw fundamental analyst intern 13 3y
+5 Road after HF 1 3y
+5 Is merger analysis necessary to work at Hedge Funds? 1 3y
+5 SM HF comp progression? 4 3y
+5 Stock Pitch Review (Short) 5 3y

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