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Comp is not in line with BB/EB comp unless you're speaking base salaries... you will take a significant pay cut to deal-based work, as you will with any ~40-50 hour/week job. MDs make great money but you have to be good at sales.

It's a good career, especially at a MF, but like anything else has its tradeoffs. Juniors are not going to be extremely highly paid and it's not really possible to move into deal work from that seat.

 

Yeah I'm talking about MF, I think the big difference is that MM are only raising new funds every couple of years, and in between fund raising, the work is largely providing LPs updates and the occasional co-invest syndication.  Whereas MF have so many products, that you're constantly fund raising (often multiple products at a time), and given the number of products, you also have a lot more co-invest to syndicate. 

 

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