+15 Consensus? 4 3y
+9 Update on American competitiveness? 1 3y
+4 WTF does near term bullish, long term bearish mean? 3 3y
+59 Understanding Concensus & Differentiated View 19 3y
+34 Crazy D.E. Shaw phone interview question -- Help! 28 3y
+32 HF not ETFs? 11 3y
+3 Bridgewater SA 2024 8 3y
+3 What's the best source of software indutry news 1 3y
+4 DC hedge funds or Funds with teams in the DMV area? 6 3y
+12 London SM with very broad mandate 4 3y
+14 Del 4 3y
+3 Middle office 1 3y
+4 AM Jobs, Comp/Lifestyle in Low-Tax Jurisdictions 3 3y
+27 What is the best path to working at a hedge fund? 15 3y
+7 IG/XO Credit 3 3y
+3 How to listen to conf calls? 9 3y
+3 Q on defaulted bonds 2 3y
+15 HF vs GE ( 11 3y
+37 Convertible Pricing from CDS 12 3y
+6 When do you cut your analyst position? 1 3y
0 Point72 - Interview - NA Data 3y
+13 Big 4 MM - Snr Associate vs Analyst - how much does this matter? 1 3y
+3 Southern Hedge Funds 3 3y
+31 How many of you are multi-millionaires? 30 3y
+1 Oak Hill Advisors Summer 2024 internship timeline 5 3y
+3 Moving to buyside, any advice? 1 3y
+21 2022 HF performance 26 3y
0 AQR Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 3y
+4 About Capstone Investment Advisors 1 3y
0 CQF? 1 3y
+6 Equity Sales 9 3y
+62 Has your job influenced your personality? 21 3y
+71 BO got no freaking respect 21 3y
+5 Point72 Academy Analyst 2024 22 3y
+3 How to describe investing philosophy to LO value fund? 5 3y
0 How did one get a job as a trader at a stock exchange or a hedge fund/prop shop before the days of the internet? 1 3y
+6 A grey area question 1 3y
0 Silver Lake and Tiger Cubs 9 3y
+4 P72 Academy Investment Analyst Program 19 3y
+17 HELP: Tips For Learning Shorter Term (MM Style?) Investing 4 3y
+36 Breaking into global macro 11 3y
+9 Opportunity cost of recruiting for HF? 4 3y
+13 N/a 8 3y
+37 Higher expected returns = Lower intrinsic value? (Vice versa) 9 3y
+9 Quant Sell Side Resources 2 3y
+10 Hudson Bay Capital - Any Info? 7 3y
+10 Whose fault is it? 19 3y
+13 Do you have to be great at mental math to do HF? 13 3y
+1 HF Interview Tutor Needed ASAP 1 3y
+5 Weiss Asset Management and Bridgewater Target Schools 17 3y
+8 Questions to ask interviewer 4 3y
+4 Schools with Undergrad Investment Funds 9 3y
+3 ————— 3 3y
+10 Holocene Advisors? Interview and Process 13 3y
+18 SMs that weren’t down in 2022? 20 3y
+11 Is this a useless question to ask to my future boss? 4 3y
0 Hard-to-get list of equity funds in Europe, how much would you pay? 11 3y
+4 Commodity S & D Analysis 3 3y
+10 Getting into a top hedge fund as quantitative analyst or quantitative researcher? 13 3y
+18 How to become a PM at a Hedge Fund 5 3y
+3 2 Sigma in-fights? 1 3y
+4 Ib->hf without pe 5 3y
+34 Do you need a high IQ to be successful in the Hedge Fund Industry? (Serious) 13 3y
0 North Wall Capital - London 1 3y
+3 Platforms and risk mgt 2 3y
+4 Discerning whether public or private markets are for me 4 3y
+10 Can someone please explain? 3 3y
+4 What models are used by equity long/short funds? (quant models) 1 3y
+3 Moving to biotech long short or equity research from PA 1 3y
+7 what is the best way to set up for global macro in 2023 3 3y
+9 Career Question: FICC Vs. Commodities HF 1 3y
+6 Is sm hf still possible from ER? 2 3y
+3 IB Analyst --> Data Analyst/Data Scientist at a HF 1 3y
+3 Model is not balancing 8 3y
+7 I feel stuck...... 1 3y
0 Avenue Capital Group 2022 2 3y
+3 Linden Advisors 2 3y
0 Looking for a Mentor in London (HF) 4 3y
+18 TC: MBS repo trading 8 3y
0 Qube Research and Technologies - Review - Quantitative Research Data 3y
0 Qube Research and Technologies - Salary & Bonus - Quantitative Research Data 3y
+16 Stupid Question on MMHFs 4 3y
0 Barclays - Review - Prime Brokerage Data 3y
0 Barclays - Salary & Bonus - Prime Brokerage Data 3y
0 Hedge Funds That Take School Yr/Summer Interns 1 3y
+3 Rising senior with questions about hedge funds 4 3y
+3 Del 1 3y
+20 Books for Portfolio Management and HF 7 3y
+3 Do you have a mentor? How did you find them? 8 3y
+3 Jr vs senior analyst 1 3y
+89 One Man Hedge Fund 30 3y
+7 Transfer from RE to HF 2 3y
+9 PE to HF recruiting 3 3y
+3 Bridgewater HR Screener 1 3y
+1 What does Bridgewater do? 1 3y
+3 Top consultancies with focus on investment industry/hedge funds 1 3y
+9 Credit approach to equity investing offer upside? 1 3y
+11 Quant Dev: Central risk book 4 3y
+16 Shorting a company I don't like 19 3y
+45 Long-term potential in L/S HF vs. LO AM 37 3y

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