From S&T to Hedge Funds?

Hi all! I'm about to start my S&T career in one of the BBs, but my goal is to transfer to any Hedge Fund because of the higher compensation. Does anyone have relevant resources/information/experience? 

I heard that only specific trading desks could exit to HFs - is the Bank Portfolio Management desk one of them? Are there any other criteria for exiting to HFs? 

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Since my desk does bank liquidity pool management (UST investments), I guess the skillsets would apply to Macro hedge funds...? Regarding the role - I think most sell-side traders are seeking an investment role (portfolio management role), including myself. Any thoughts? 

 

depends on strategy, I don't really know much outside of L/S equity and S&T people don't end up here outside of execution roles.

 

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