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+38 Starting a Hedge Fund Requires $100 Million? 10 8y
0 Hiding Balance Sheet Error in Stock Pitch 2 8y
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+11 Convertible fund - what's the right angle? 3 8y
+21 Defining Passion for Investing 6 8y
+14 Getting an internship with a hedge fund via a connection 3 8y
+25 Bad GPA vs the ability to bring in massive revenue for the company 8 8y
+12 Idea Sourcing for Hedge Funds 2 8y
+464 The Hedge Fund Experience - Good, Bad, Ugly 345 8y
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+16 Macro interview questions 35 8y
+3 K2 Advisors Research Associate 4 8y
+39 Tiger Cubs 22 8y
+31 Questions from a top NYU undergrad. 26 8y
+20 Lost Graduate: Big 4 Audit or Boutique Hedge Fund 7 8y
+12 How To Shift from Risk Management to Hedge Funds? HELP 1 8y
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+66 Most sought-after skills for Quantitative research position 28 8y
+20 D.E. Shaw Recruiting 30 8y
+17 Conversion of two closed end funds into open fund 2 8y
+14 Fundamental roles at traditionally strong quant HF's. 3 8y
+52 Point72 Accelerated Recruiting 87 8y
+17 Can I eventually work at a biotech analyst? 5 8y
+73 Pitch Me A Stock 62 8y
+3 2018 Equity Slump 1 8y
+21 Questions about Bridgewater / Reading Philosophy? 7 8y
+40 26 Year Old Female to raise $200 million Short Hedge Fund 25 8y
+85 Are you good at shorting? 34 8y
+9 Mistake to tell Recruiter also interested in AM? 1 8y
+35 Final round buyside interview 19 8y
+9 EB Analyst -> Credit Research -> Credit Hedge Fund? 1 8y
+3 What books or where can I learn more about quantitative investing 1 8y
+24 Help with Hedge Fund Recruiting Approach 5 8y
+28 Cold Emailing for internship help needed 11 8y
+79 How to Make Money in The Market: Providing Liquidity 16 8y
+12 How accurate is the sumzero compensation report? 3 8y
+9 Analyst half life and deferred compensation 1 8y
+3 Cash/Liquidity at Hedge Funds 1 8y
+6 Cyrus Capital 4 8y
0 Canyon Capital 9 8y
+8 Anyone heard of Quad Capital? 12 8y
+5 James Simmons hedge fund manager formula 4 8y
+3 Alpha Hard Reload probably a conduct 1 8y
+12 HF non-complete includes banks? 2 8y
+38 Leaving Banking for HF Jobs 21 8y
+9 HF Carry 4 8y
+69 Top Hedge Fund List 165 8y
+3 Hyde & Co. a collective hedge fund 1 8y
+19 Differences between Special Situations Funds 4 8y
+24 Beating a Dead Horse with a New Stick 1 8y
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+76 How Do You Develop Your Macro View 52 8y
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+65 How common are 100 hour weeks in HF? 27 8y
0 best college major for non traditional student willing to do an mba in future 3 8y
+12 MSOR vs CFA 1 8y
+41 Internships early on? 21 8y
+12 A Question Regarding Adjusted Present Value 1 8y
+9 Thoughts on a fund with a "disruptive innovation" theme? 1 8y
+3 Any Credit/Debt funds <500m that Invest in real estate / property companies 1 8y
+44 Should I Read Academic Research On Finance? 32 8y
+26 DCM to Elite Hedge Funds 6 8y
+12 Starting a Business, then going into HF 1 8y
+12 Consultant breaking into Finance? 1 8y
+16 Initial (Stage 1) Company Research 1 8y
+12 Sending Stock Pitch for internships - what model, if any, should I use? 2 8y
+9 Optiver trading intern 1 8y
+3 AQR early engagement program 1 8y
+21 Moving from an expert network to a HF 10 8y
+12 Quant Role Interview at ~$10B AUM Fund 1 8y
+3 Cubist salary range 1 8y
+26 Will Gold prices hit a bottom in 2018? 33 8y
+12 Divident REIT 1 8y
+105 Q&A: Hedge Fund Allocator at a $2B+ E&F 39 8y
+24 Working for Free - Doing Value Added Work as an Undergrad 7 8y
+9 Infrastructure PE Analyst to HF 6 8y
+27 Have a phone call with the founder & CEO of a large & successful fund. Need advice. 13 8y
+15 Quant Trading Summer Intern: Help... 4 8y
+54 Distressed Debt Hedge Fund out of College - Prep Advice 13 8y
+6 Orbis Investment Management - thoughts? 1 8y
+6 Performance Leg of a Total Return Swap 2 8y
+3 Opportunities in Middle Market - CLOs 1 8y
+37 Math or Engineering Undergrad for a Quant? 15 8y
+29 Bulge Brackets and Hedge Funds 5 8y
+7 Engineering to Banking? 2 8y
+3 How to find listing of all Hedge Funds in an area (preferably by AUM)? 1 8y
+5 If there is such thing at all, what are... 2 8y
0 Hedge Fund In House Interview 1 8y
+36 Quant jobs in Hedge Funds: Differences between companies? 8 8y
+19 Best UPENN clubs to join for buyside? 14 8y
+12 Is a math physics double major a good bet into Wall Street? 2 8y
0 Starting a small fund 4 8y
+18 Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund, is possibly a fraud [according to Jim Grant] 12 8y
+30 Moving from Fund of Funds to Hedge fund 36 8y
+12 Need help choosing a PE offer that will help me get to equity L/S in the future 1 8y
+3 HF manager looking to speak to current or recent CBS value investing alumni 4 8y
+17 How many stocks? 8 8y
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