What are the exit opps in London for post MBA banking associates?

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SReaper · Accepted Answer

If you're set on hedge funds, first step would be to find out if someone from your team/department has moved directly to a hedge fund. If you don't know, try and find someone on linkedin. Reach out to them for a coffee to say you're interested in moving to a hedge fund (not theirs specifically).

Step 2, which could also be done concurrently with step 1, is to talk to hedge fund recruiters about positions/skills you need to show etc.

SReaper · Answer

The plan sounds good. Good luck! :)

On the HF and PE MBA networks in London, there is not a lot of data out there on what are the most represented schools, especially for hedge funds. However, based on some manual research I did when I applied to business school and while I was looking for a job, this is what I found.

For PE/HF in London, most represented school was HBS. Next was Wharton (quite a bit behind HBS), followed by INSEAD/Stanford. Actually there were more INSEAD overall, but Stanford is a smaller class and there were more Stanford people at MF vs more INSEAD at UMM/MM.

Pan European Monkey · Answer

Well I just think that HHs would question you doing MBA -> IB (moving away from investing) -> HF (back at investing). Secondly assuming you run models already I don’t see how banking would help you on that especially as an associate especially in Europe where post-MBAs associates usually are focused on slides+process+relationship handling in my experience and A2As will usually review models from Analysts.

EB1997 · Answer

Thanks a lot man, that is very helpful. I guess my plan then is network hard with headhunters and HFs people from my current position to try to move from where I am right now. If that fails I will head to LBS and try to network again as an MBA student, and if that also fails then I guess i will have to give up on my HF dreams and for IB positions post MBA, stay there for 2 years and then move to a PE fund. Sounds like a good plan? Anything else I am missing?

Also, you touched networking, I am scared that the LBS network will be very thin for HFs. Am I better off attending a US MBA?

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