What investment banking group is best (and worst) if you want to work at an equity L/S hedge fund?

What group would best prepare you for a job at a long/short hedge fund down the line and why? Alternatively, are there any groups which would absolutely not help you and maybe even hurt your chances?

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a) depends on the bank b) Not really though some explicitly credit-focused groups may be less helpful (even this has major exceptions-plenty of L/S funds recruit from lev fin/restructuring groups for example). I'm ignoring things that are explicitly unrelated to fundamental business/industry analysis, like groups that sell currency and rate hedging implements to corporate clients, etc.

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