What y'all gonna do if your fund shuts down?
Ideally it's something that pays US$100k+ and lets me trade my PA (not enough to live on, yet) with no restrictions. Past that, I don't care much about comp and will optimize more for aspects of the job that scratch a similar itch as investing.
Some aspects I'm trying to map onto a future role:
- gathering, processing, and integrating scraps of information into some broader insight that solves a puzzle; a bit like detective work
- mandate and resources to do in-depth research projects on a reasonably varied range of topics
- forming and updating views on the distribution of outcomes, then placing bets when advantageous relative to implied odds offered
- avenues to meet random people and pick their brains about what interesting stuff they're up to
- prefer to avoid working in large teams / cross-functionally in a big organization / herding cats
Most of the ex-investing folks I know ended up in IR, corp dev/strat, YC startup, or their own "family office" i.e. trading their PA. Anyone contemplating anything off those beaten paths?
sounds like a new hedge fund would be the perfect job for you 😂. checks all the boxes. How big is your PA / what's your current comp @ the HF? depending on those 2, I would do YC startup + trade PA.
Corp strat is herding cats unless you're in the beautiful 10% of organizations that listens and acts on what their CSO recommends with urgency
YC startup is lots of cross function as a business guy (your job might be to figure out how to get product and engineering communicating better, or coordinating an all-hands mtg, or standing up a new vertical by actually doing the marketing, selling, and CS before building a team to do that motion and handing off the proces
Own family office sounds incredible
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