+22 Transition from Insurance AM to HF/Pure AM 4 4y
+12 Periodic Confusion 2 4y
+60 Is joining Point72 social suicide for joining other firms? 25 4y
+19 Paul Singer : The Doomsday Investor 8 4y
+65 Best Way to Break Into Shareholder Defense? 33 4y
+35 Why do good HFs shutdown? 9 4y
+36 How to get from S&T to HF? 18 4y
+125 Turned my live $4000 account to $44,000+ in 4 weeks...What is next? 92 4y
+189 The Mechanics of a Mispricing 34 4y
+110 Hedge Funds v/s Private Equity: Which industry will survive and thrive in the next two decades? 20 4y
+25 Should HF managers pay for losses? 4 4y
+56 Catalysts? 10 4y
+138 How Hard and Expensive Is it to Start Investment Fund? 126 4y
+61 Burned out HF guy, what are my exit options 32 4y
+31 How to adjust to Hedge Fund culture 9 4y
+34 The morality of a commodity fund 18 4y
+82 Boss/PM tosses heap of personal insults upon resignation 32 4y
+14 Most Interesting/Bizarre Asset You've Heard of? 5 4y
+53 Admitted to CBS... Should I pursue the buy-side? 8 4y
+18 What do HF analysts personally invest in? 12 4y
+18 Delete 11 4y
+57 Black list from BB for taking HF offer? 19 4y
+28 Think I may be getting fired.... 7 4y
+34 Public equity investors - why do you deserve to generate alpha? 9 4y
+6 Street bullish, investor sentiment negative? 1 4y
+56 Hedge Funds requiring IB experience... why? 17 4y
+199 Compensation Structure At Quant VS Fundamental Funds 72 4y
+34 HF/Trading Career Path 10 4y
+101 How to hedge a call option 41 4y
+7 Elizabeth Warren 3 4y
+111 Do you need to be a market genius to start a hedge fund? 53 4y
+734 I'm bored: Macro Hedge Fund PM Q&A 216 4y
+6 Good podcasts 1 4y
+44 Distressed Debt Case Study - OpCo/HoldCo Guarantee Problem 16 4y
+48 Renaissance Technologies 18 4y
+30 13F Filings. How do hedge funds prevent their ideas being stolen? 8 4y
+19 Cubist down 20% exposes the scam of Hedge Funds - They are all beta 6 4y
+46 Why are Hedge Funds only available to High-Net-Worth investors? 23 4y
+108 How long does it take to formulate a investment idea / stock pitch 23 4y
+7 Pershing Square Capital Management Intern/FT Offer 5 4y
+63 Why do people invest in hedge funds? 30 4y
+22 Will we be able to work from anywhere? 12 4y
+61 Why don’t hedge funds liquidate their positions in a recession? 22 4y
+94 Do I take the safe bet after grad? 38 4y
+93 HF Industry Dying? 54 4y
+43 Mid-career BD/IR help 14 4y
+16 Microsoft AZ-104 Dumps Pdf : 2020-Aug - Microsoft Azure Administrator (beta) 1 4y
+10 Just failed an interview 3 4y
+25 How to Think About Insider Selling 7 4y
+109 What is something you hate about working at a HF 58 4y
+13 Citadel GE / Surveyor 15 4y
+20 Hate new sub-PM, thinking of leaving 5 4y
+4 Teza Technologies 2 4y
+53 Future of Global Macro 25 4y
+37 IB->PE->HF or IB->HF 8 4y
+53 Why is this forum all 15 year olds? 35 4y
0 Delete v1 1 4y
0 AI/ML Engineer vs Hedge Fund Quant 1 4y
+8 Outdated v3 7 4y
+1 Is there any way to skip all the technical questions? 2 4y
+4 Did I screw up? 5 4y
0 Quant vs Data Scientist in Hedge Fund 2 4y
+37 Subprime auto collapse? 12 4y
+33 HF Comp Out of IB - Current Figures 10 4y
+9 Starting a biotech expert network 9 4y
+356 Hedge Fund Careers: Getting a Hedge Fund Job Out of Undergrad and Beyond 100 4y
+103 Q&A: Hedge Fund Lawyer 48 4y
+4 Is growth through acquisitions a red flag when looking at a company? 9 4y
0 What kind of machine learning do fundamental HFs use? 5 4y
+6 BridgeWater |How long should I wait after the final round interview with BridgeWater? 2 4y
+126 Life decisions...buy-side equity analyst 60 4y
+9 What AUM is ideal in your opinion? 6 4y
+3 Hedge fund vs prop trading quants 1 4y
+13 Citadel coke break?? 9 4y
+5 How should I prepare for an interview with a single manager hf that invests in both public equities and private assets? 0 4y
+11 Quant in Hong Kong 1 4y
+130 HF Analyst Pitch Examples 81 4y
+49 3yrs buy-side experience - how to get to a LDN based HF 39 4y
+14 Stay at Top Boutique IB or Move to MM 7 4y
+110 Q&A: Non-target->BB->PE->HF (thank you, WSO) 56 4y
+71 Point72 Summer Academy vs Top BB IBD Summer 27 4y
+95 Settling the debate over TQQQ as a long-term investment 79 4y
+46 Q&A: Quant Research Analyst at Startup Fund 4 4y
+69 Joining Start Up Hedge Fund - What to Expect 36 4y
+46 Sundheim Is The Man - D1 cap thoughts 39 4y
+12 Startup HF straight from undergrad 5 4y
+135 Q&A: Joined a top Hedge Fund out of undergrad 72 4y
+70 Q&A: distressed debt hedge fund analyst & top 3 MBA 57 4y
+18 Robin Judson? 11 4y
+37 Machine Learning in fundamental HF? 38 4y
+35 Ruane, Cunniff and Golfarb Rep/Comp 24 4y
+11 Moving into macro/commods from EB? 4 4y
+21 R vs. Python in a fundamental equity HF? 19 4y
0 Hedge Fund Partnerships 9 4y
+16 Breaking into quant funds with a military background 3 4y
+19 Secondaries —> HF? 13 4y
0 From a MAM account to a Hedge Fund, possible ? 1 4y
+88 PE vs HF L/S equity - which one is harder to excel in? 36 4y
+7 Which are the top hedgefunds located in Frankfurt/Munich and suggestions/advice to make a good career in this industry? 2 4y
+5 Delete 2 4y

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