+28 What does it take for an engineer, to be a portfolio manager at a Quant hedge fund? 19 4y
+8 Hedge Fund Location 3 4y
+12 PA investments 3 4y
0 Wall Street Cribs: NYC Edition part deux 13 4y
+192 Q&A: I'm a hedge fund recruiter. 143 4y
+9 Team Atmosphere & Psychology | HF vs Sell Side 1 4y
+12 UPenn CS+Math to Quant? 6 4y
+3 Undergrad at Fordham Global Finance @ LC or Baruch Finance? 1 4y
+31 Please help! 13 4y
+11 Breaking into a hedge fund from a professional sports background 1 4y
+11 Family Offices and HF Seeders 2 4y
+12 Got a job at small hedge fund but have no idea what's next. 2 4y
+12 Breaking into hedge funds from data science - Columbia '21 admit/ non U.S. citizen 1 4y
+94 Columbia Value Investing Program Placement 89 4y
+9 video courses online for value investing 1 4y
+52 7 Figure Hedge Fund Salary - Myth or Real? 17 4y
+25 Should I start in a hedge fund internship or a full-time consulting job straight out of undergrad? 5 4y
+14 Concrete Advice to Break into HF from Non-Target Undergrad 2 5y
+9 Best Option for HF Post-MBA 1 5y
0 Wall Street Intro 2 5y
+12 LSE (BSc in Finance) vs NYU Stern vs UMich (Possibly Ross) vs UVA vs BC Carroll 1 5y
+21 Transition from Quant to HF/PE/IB : Seeking some evaluation 1 5y
+2 Hedgefund salaries 13 5y
+13 Realistic Exit Opps 6 5y
+4 Redwood Capital Management?? 4 5y
+6 Finally landed an HF internship, how to make most out of it now 1 5y
+21 CPA AUDIT -> Wharton MBA -> Top Hedge Funds? 1 5y
+25 Selling HF LLC with accounts 15 5y
+56 Q&A: 1st year Equity Hedge Fund Analyst straight out of undergrad 30 5y
+1 G-Research vs. top NY hedge funds? 1 5y
+274 Hedge Fund: The Investment Life Cycle 63 5y
+58 Moving between hedge funds 31 5y
+20 Does Anyone Know How Ken Griffin Did It? 11 5y
+19 AI in trading? 8 5y
+20 Economic Consulting to Hedge Fund Post MBA 2 5y
+15 I've been at a fund for 2 months and hate it. please advise 6 5y
+15 Which internship is better for moving into top L/S: GS NY ER vs. Dodge & Cox ER 3 5y
+29 Interview question @ Wall Street hedge fund 21 5y
+15 Risk Per Trade in Macro Investing 4 5y
+108 Demystifying GSO Capital (Blackstone) 45 5y
+12 How crazy would it be to start an investment partnership right after graduation? 1 5y
+13 How screwed am I? No internship 3 5y
+52 Hedge fund traders/decision makers here? 21 5y
+4 Pursuing hedge fund: what to do in college 2 5y
+13 Offer on Table from Non-HF while on Path to HF 3 5y
+12 Georgetown vs UVA for HF 3 6y
+11 Data Analyst or Operations Analyst 4 6y
+3 CFA® level 2 material 1 6y
+174 Bridgewater Associates Careers Applications 212 6y
+164 Q&A: Non-finance major --> BB IB --> Director at $5B+ Multi-strat HF (in 6 years) 62 6y
+196 Explain to me like I'm a 12 year old the benefit of a hedge fund 77 6y
+35 WSO Hall of Fame: Hedge Fund Forum 0 6y
+6 If I want to eventually work my way up to a position at a hedge fund... 1 6y
+3 Specific Fund ?k 2 6y
+12 Stanford GSB v Wharton? 14 6y
+39 Tiger Cubs 22 6y
+31 Questions from a top NYU undergrad. 26 6y
+72 Pitch Me A Stock 62 6y
+266 Starting a small hedge fund 262 6y
+12 MSOR vs CFA 1 6y
+41 Internships early on? 21 6y
+26 DCM to Elite Hedge Funds 6 6y
+12 Consultant breaking into Finance? 1 6y
+37 Math or Engineering Undergrad for a Quant? 15 6y
+21 Best UPENN clubs to join for buyside? 14 6y
+18 Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund, is possibly a fraud [according to Jim Grant] 12 6y
0 Question about Cornell Operations Research & Engineering? 5 6y
+25 Wharton To Wall Street? 7 6y
0 How much does school network help in hedge funds? 0 6y
0 Delete 0 6y
+4 Undergrad Advice for Finance 3 6y
+18 Why "reverse commute"? 13 6y
0 MBA vs. MFE for breaking into HFs 4 6y
+11 Career progression at top hedge funds 1 6y
+46 A 20-year-old who dropped out of NYU says he has raised $5 million for his hedge fund 31 7y
+73 Curious About Hedge Fund Track 47 7y
+84 Q&A: Research Analyst at Event-Driven/Special Sits HF directly from "non-target" 21 7y
+103 Q&A: HY/Distressed Analyst at NYC based Mid-Sized Credit Hedge Fund 60 7y
0 Stevens Capital Management in Philly: insights and more info? 9 7y
+12 Citadel vs. Two Sigma: The Race to Get the Best Quants 3 7y
+5 Hedge Funds in Philadelphia 11 7y
+19 Need help in making choice for undergrad school (Yale, Princeton, Columbia with scholarship) 17 7y
0 Help wanted: majors, masters, and jobs, oh my! 0 7y
+121 Starting a small, personal Hedge fund 219 7y
+8 Spark LP? Anyone know of this hedge fund? 27 7y
+10 How safe of a bet is a top MFE/MFin (MIT/Princeton/CMU/Columbia/etc) for a position as a quant? 15 7y
0 Carrington Capital Management 1 7y
+45 College student's fund has a 500% annual return over 9 years 57 7y
0 Top 10 undergrad on a gap year. Need advice 4 7y
0 Military -> MBA -> IB -> HF 3 7y
0 Baruch College for HF career? 0 7y
0 Better Choice: Economics or Finance? 1 8y
0 Bridgewater Associates - Life of high-level software development? 3 8y
0 Mr Ackman's letter to the Allergen board - Bronte Capital 2 8y
0 Soph FoF -> Junior Banking SA Possible? 2 8y
+27 What did Bill Ackman do after undergrad and before MBA? 26 8y
+15 Hedge Fund Stocks 5 8y
0 Opinion required: HF career vs MBA 1 8y
0 Palo Alto Lunch -- Idea Generation: Public Investing 1 8y
0 Gramercy Advisors 1 8y

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