West Coast / SF based L/S HF

Hi guys, 

I'm in the market looking for new opportunities this year, ideally would like to move to the West Coast (ideally SF but other cities are OK too) due to personal preferences. However, felt the HF community is much smaller on the west coast. 

What are some of the good L/S HF there? A few ones I know are Valiant, Route One, ValueAct. Would be keen to learn more about the mid sized $1bn-3bn HF.

If anyone can please share a few good L/S HF that you know on the west coast, that would be great!

Thanks a lot!

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isn't Sansome a PE firm that makes non-controlling investments in private companies? Tried to find their 13-f and couldn't find anything

 
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Have fun waking up at the early hours so you can be in the office and on your desk ready to trade at 6:30AM. Depending on where you live relative to the office this could mean waking up as early as 4AM. This adds a lot of extra stress on yourself in addition to the stresses of the job. Not ideal for many. And you might be tempted to think you’ll be able to leave early given the market closes at 1PM, but there’s a tremendous amount of pressure for you to stay many hours after the close since it’s still early.

 

As someone on the west coast, this is one of the reasons why I wanna move east. Waking up at 3am during earnings is not fun 

 

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