Wall Street Mentor (Mark): Breaking into Hedge Funds & Equity Research Reports

Chris of Wall Street Mentors chats with Mark Lazaro about how he used equity research reports to break into the hedge fund industry directly out of college (Mark went straight from NYU to JL Advisors, a multi-billion long-short hedge fund).

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