Least Quantitative-Intensive Type of Hedge Funds and Couple Other General Questions?

Hi,

So I was wondering what types of hedge funds are the least quantitative and more or less look at fundamental analysis or other non-quant techniques to make money? I've heard that long-short funds might fit the bill, but are there any others? While I am decent with numbers, dealing with some of the higher concepts in math beyond first year calc and stat, so I probably won't qualify for the truly quant/CS-oriented funds. For long/short funds too, does a finance/accounting background suffice, or will I still need math/CS/engineering for those funds as well?

Finally, my other 2 questions are:

  1. Is ER or Trading at a large bank/reputable boutique the way to go to get into the hedge funds?

  2. I know that Hedge Fund pay is much more variable than PE, for example, but in bad years, how would HF pay hold up compared to PE and IB?

thanks!

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Sort of-kind of a combination of typical hedge fund (options investing like selling index puts), activist hedge fund (preferred stakes in Salomon Bros and Goldman), and private equity (Burlington Northern, etc).

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Probably deep value/activist funds? Could be wrong...

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