Activist Funds
How have activist funds been holding up recently relative to other funds with different strategies?
Will some of the bigger funds hire straight out of analyst programs?
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some will....make sure you do get into an M&A group (learn analytical work, DD skills, may even do an activist defense or two)
Activist Funds:
Accipiter Capital Management AIM Trimark Angelo Gordon & Co **Appaloosa Mgmt (David Tepper) Atticus Capital Barington Capital Group (Jim Mitarotonda) Bridgewater Associates Inc. **Bulldog Investors (Phillip Goldstein) Burton Capital Management / BCM (Robert Burton) *Cannell Capital Cantillion Capital Management Capital Management Advisors Group Cardinal Value Equity Partners *Carlos Slim Helu Cerberus Capital Management LP *Cevian Capital Chap-Cap Partners 2 Chap-Cap Activist Partners Chapman Capital (Robert Chapman) ** Children's Investment Fund Mgmt / TCI (Christopher Hohn) Citadel Investment Group Copper Arch Capital (Scott Sipprelle) Costa Brava Partnership III, LLC D.E. Shaw (David Shaw) Diamond Hill Focus Long-Short Fund (Ric Dillon) Dolphin LP (Donald T. Netter) Edward Lampert Elliott Associates Elliot and Deka *ESL Partners (Eddie Lampert) Ethos Fund Everest Capital Advisors Farallon Capital Management Gabelli Asset Management Glenview Capital GLG Partners Goodwood Greenlight Capital *Guy Wyser-Pratte *Harold Simmons Hennessee Group (Charles Gradante) Highfields Capital Management Highland Capital Management LP *Icahn, CCI International Management Associates LLC, Jana Partners LLC (Barry Rosenstein) K Capital Partners LLC Legg Mason Inc. / Private Capital Management *Liberation Investment Group Maverick Capital Oaktree Capital Management. Och Ziff Capital Octavian Advisors LP Opportunity Partners Owl Creek Asset Management LP (Jeffrey Altman) Paulson & Co *Pardus Capital Mgmt Pembridge Capital Management LLC Perry Corp ** Pershing Square Capital Mgmt (William Ackman) Pirate Capital (Tom Hudson) *Relational Investors (Ralph Whitworth) *Richard Blum SAC Capital Advisors LLC Sandell Asset Management Santa Monica Partners *Schultze Asset Mgmt Shepherd Investments International (Michael Roth) SkyBridge Capital (Michael Dell) Southeastern Asset Management Stark International Stark Trading (Brian Stark) *Steel Partners Stewart Horejsi Third Avenue Managment ** Third Point (Daniel Loeb) *Tracinda Corp (Kirk Kerkorian) *Trian Group Trian Fund Management LP (Nelson Peltz) ValueAct Capital Management WS Capital
Say I wanted to open my own fund some day. What's the ideal path after going to a larger fund after a BB analyst program?
Look, its hard to plan things out like that. Opportunity finds us in ways we can't even imagine. Its your job to take them no matter how tough it is to get. If you feel a BB analyst is the right place, then do it.
Opening a fund depends on the fund you worked in before that. So your first goal would be to find a company that uses a strategy that you are interested in. So, what type of strategy are you interested in?
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