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+30 Incoming IB MBA Associate set on a future investing in public equities - advice on how to best prepare? 9 2y
+18 Internal promotion at HF? 4 2y
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+6 Crestline Summit 3 2y
0 AQR Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Quantitative Research Data 2y
+31 Wharton MBA to Hedge Funds 14 2y
+9 Event Driven to Activism - Possible? 2 2y
0 What is the best sector to start in and learn about early on in your career? 1 2y
+7 Any update on Abdiel Capital? 15 2y
+37 N/a 37 2y
0 Compensation of ballerest partner of the awesomest fund in a great year? 7 2y
0 Tiger Global, Viking, Lone Pine, etc... partner all in comp at top global funds 30 2y
+8 Is stock picking a dying skill? 2 2y
+243 Ask me anything - quant/quantamental Hedge fund manager/Consultant - Everything on liquid hedge fund strategies 195 2y
+3 Ellington Management ? 1 2y
+25 N/a 11 2y
+35 Stay or leave? 10 2y
+74 Are we at peak pod shop? 33 2y
+17 Why do SMs exist? 17 2y
+4 Hf Interview Help 2 2y
+3 What does someone in 'Research, Process & Analytics' do at Citadel? Sounds vague from description below 1 2y
+30 How do you budget for big life decisions given career/comp uncertainty? 8 2y
+9 eVTOL / UAM / Space launches? 5 2y
+6 Hedge Funds Doing Undergrad Internships 4 2y
+15 Does HayFin have a public credit hedge fund arm? 4 2y
+9 Going Beyond Number Crunching 1 2y
+6 Transition from Growth to Value? 1 2y
+27 What HF are available to me from CBS MBA and CFA? 7 2y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Interview - Hedge Fund Data 2y
+1 Hedge Funds in Orange County, CA 8 2y
0 JPMorgan - Salary & Bonus - Risk Management Data 2y
+16 N/a 6 2y
+3 Earnings Alerts/API? 1 2y
+9 Stay where I'm at or look for new options 0 2y
+6 What is it like working at one of the L/S funds captured within a MF PE platform? 1 2y
+3 SurgoCap Recruiter 1 2y
+50 Citadel (Surveyor) Case Study/Modeling Test 14 2y
+3 MS in Data Analytics vs MS CS 3 2y
+3 Point72 Summer Academy Interview 1 2y
+21 Career wisdom for fresh grads 3 2y
+27 How to go about L/S HF recruitment for a pod from 2 years in IBD as analyst? 4 2y
+10 Technical analysis/chart reading - L/S Equity 3 2y
+8 New here: Trying to understand the Internship game. 2 2y
+21 MM junior analyst offer with no guaranteed bonus - am I getting duped? 10 2y
+66 How to turn off trading mentality outside of work? Unable to socially fit outside the trading floor 19 2y
+18 MM Analysts? Tell me how you survived! 15 2y
+7 Deciding between HSW v CBS - much difference for HF/AM roles? 8 2y
+12 Mobility To Front Office Vs Hiring Freeze - Is Sticking It Out Here My Only Option? 1 2y
+9 Top Credit Hedge Funds (London) 16 2y
+21 Path to Starting a Hedge Fund 5 2y
0 Two Sigma Investments - Review - Quantitative Research Data 2y
+45 HSW MBA vs Direct HF 22 2y
+16 Internal move to PM position 8 2y
+9 Sharpe on a trading book 1 2y
+12 SWF career progression and HF 3 2y
+9 How to avoid liquidity risk and transparency risk 1 2y
0 Info on Bobby Jain's new fund? 2 2y
+3 Citadel CAP Interview Process? 2 2y
+27 Stock Pitch/Interview advice for Citadel CAP recruiting 4 2y
+3 Resume Q 1 2y
+15 WLB as an associate at HF and trajectory thereafter - how easy is it to start a family / spend time with family outside of work? 1 2y
+20 Burning bridges with MMs 7 2y
+3 MFin in Europe 2 2y
+5 How does compensation scale YoY at MMs? 4 2y
+5 Breaking into HF: M&A + CFA + MFin 3 2y
+21 How can I tell if I’m burn out or I just don’t like the job 3 2y
+6 How to network with MMs 3 2y
+1 Where to learn trading & to build a good track record for a HF 2 2y
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+21 Senior Analyst/PM Toxicity 10 2y
+7 How many HF guys out there are worth 9figures+? 3 2y
+8 what strategies will prevail? 7 2y
+39 Short Selling prep 9 2y
+3 Best EM/Asia focused fund 1 2y
+32 Guarantees at multi managers 2 2y
+10 Honeycomb Asset Management - Anyone familiar? 10 2y
+3 Point72 Summer 2024 Academy Internship Interview Process 1 2y
+32 Join a fund below water mark? 13 2y
+4 Early Graduation Date on Resume 3 2y
+3 Dataroom materials for IPO investors - PE level information or public markets level information? 1 2y
0 Millennium Partners - Interview - Hedge Fund Data 2y
+9 Credit Investing Holding Reports 2 2y
+12 The role of an asset manager in a private credit strategy 6 2y
+6 USC vs Vanderbilt 26 2y
+49 Thoughts on Silverpoint Capital? 27 2y
+11 Switching asset classes after 15 years in 2 2y
+3 Partner / PM economics at large multi strat fund? 5 2y
+56 Not sure what to do after IB...does the job I want exist anymore? HF/AM/WM? 22 2y
+3 Difficulty in maintaining relationships 1 2y
+4 MM 1H 2023 Performance 1 2y
+23 MMHF perf YTD 43 2y
+11 West coast macro funds 3 2y
+12 Info on Citadel CAP 7 2y
+17 Can you be good at this job without loving the markets? 5 2y
+22 Multi-year long term investing thesis 15 2y
+21 Starting my own small fund 8 2y
+8 How to prep for L/S Research Analyst role? 1 2y
+3 AQR moving forward? 1 2y
+6 Pivoting into Finance (HF/PE/TR) 1 2y

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