0 Goldman on the Irish Bailout...European Contagion 1 6y
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0 HF with office in Frankfurt 12 6y
+318 Leaving the buyside 116 6y
+118 Importance of an MBA for PE and Hedge Funds 91 6y
+92 World's dumbest 'smart guy'? 43 6y
+82 Would you choose Hedge Funds all over again? 47 6y
+79 Quant hedge fund career progression 33 6y
+51 Value Investors wanted (in Paris) 6 6y
+49 How to become a great investor?; Finance PhD vs. Finance MBA 49 6y
+46 How strong is PDT Partners? 16 6y
+44 Green flags that your PM might be successful later on 7 6y
+39 Columbia Engineering vs Carnegie Mellon Engineering 15 6y
+36 Learning a Language vs. Learning to Code vs. Reading 7 6y
+36 I must have sacrificed myself to save my country in a past life 11 6y
+30 Best path for starting a successful hedge fund in 5 years 27 6y
+29 Bridgewater vs PEAK6 Investment 16 6y
+24 Working at a Distressed / Credit HF - What next? 10 6y
+21 Value Investing Club – Membership Offering 1 6y
+21 WSO Hedge Fund Guide and added value for an Event driven recruitment 2 6y
+14 Dealing with the emotional ups and downs of the PM 3 6y
+12 Stock Pitch Template? 0 6y
+12 Modern measures of risk 1 6y
+12 Selling my stock picking algorithm to hedge funds/investment firms. Where do I start? 20 6y
+11 How to learn more about various hedge fund strategies in depth? 8 6y
+9 Distressed News - Is Reorg Research worth the price ? 1 6y
+8 Hedge Funds Paris 6 6y
+6 Any decent financials sector investing blogs? 1 6y
+3 Would lower-net-worth investors benefit from exposure to Hedge Fund strategies? 1 6y
+1 Recommendations for a Quarter-Zip Sweatshirt? 1 6y
0 Due Diligence- Talking to Sources 1 6y
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0 Take home case study question 15 6y
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0 B-Unit 1 6y
0 JANA Partners responds to Agrium Analyst Day 0 6y
0 Tech Trading - ORCL Meets Expects, What Does it Mean for Enterprise 0 6y
0 Bullish on banks and insurers? 7 6y
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0 Big 4 Recent Grad --> Investments 1 6y
0 Math Major - Currently at a target 9 6y
0 Where should I work? Math, Economics, Computer Engineering Triple Major, MA Statistics 2 6y
0 Best possible understanding of the Street - for a non-career, non-streeter. 12 6y
0 Paris based Hedge Fund of funds 0 6y
+27 Valeant Pharmaceuticals/Bill Ackman E-mails 12 6y
+12 Chopard Mille Miglia Race Edition 2019 168571-3004 Cheap watch online 1 6y
+12 Swiss National Bank Issues Gold Coin for Anniversary 1 6y
+6 List of Hedge Funds in Luxembourg 2 6y
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0 Applying at Baupost 3 6y
0 help... what should i do? 4 6y
+22 Hedge funds industry in Russia? 12 6y
+18 Hedge funds in Serbia 15 6y
+14 What do you wish you knew more about? 3 6y
+9 The future of stock fraud 3 6y
0 BB Middle office / risk roll --> junior trader at hedge fund question 11 6y
0 Former head of high-frequency at citadel 1 6y
0 Your views on these courses (for HF) 3 6y
+128 Global Macro's Future "Stars" - Where Are They Coming From? 35 6y
+3 Help with researching Brazil, Chile and Peru 0 6y
0 Shotspotter 0 6y
0 Litigation funding/fraud recovery focused funds 0 6y
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0 Individual Hedge Fund or Personal Hedge Fund 3 6y
0 Buy side Latin America 4 6y
0 Hedge funds in Brazil 2 6y
0 Tropical Jobs: Hospitality vs. Off-Shore Finance 13 6y
0 Models & Bottles or Shmoozing & Boozing? 1 6y
+43 Please help me understand this about HFs 27 6y
0 Hedge Funds in Mexico 0 6y
0 hedge funds investing in latin america 4 6y
+23 need some advice regarding Bridgewater Associates and hedge funds in general 18 6y
+14 Do hedge funds suffer from competition ? 1 6y
+9 Top Hedge Fund Earners 2016 0 6y
0 IDC Herzliya 1 6y
0 Economic Milestone 0 6y
0 Money manager Ed Butowsky on SAC's Cohen 18 6y
+13 Credit Default Swaps for Sovereign Debt 2 6y
0 A case for short term investments in emerging/frontier markets 0 6y
0 Freight Derivatives 0 6y
+16 13F Holding Disclosure Question 10 6y
+7 83b tax election 4 6y
+1 List of HFs which cancelled most/all SA offers 4 6y
0 BMO Capital Markets - Interview - NA Data 6y
+6 SBC - Technology, OPEX or Naw? 5 6y
0 Evercore - Interview - Restructuring Data 6y
+9 HF case studies? 5 6y
+14 Anyone here actually work for a Tiger Cub? 3 6y
+13 Questions for Hedge Fund Model Interview 2 6y
0 Evercore - Interview - Equity Hedge Data 6y
0 Citadel Securities - Salary & Bonus - Engineering Data 6y
+3 Questions to ask the head of a fund during interviews 2 6y
0 D.E. Shaw - Review - Quantitative Research Data 6y
0 D.E. Shaw - Salary & Bonus - Quantitative Research Data 6y
+39 Why would pari passu debt trade at different levels? 13 6y
+3 Quant/Systematic Fund recruiting 1 6y

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