Q&A: long/short analyst in London

Hi, I’m a long/short analyst in a mid size hedge fund in London, around 5billion AUM. Using fundamental analysis for equity, mainly covering Asian stock. I previously interned in GS London, and worked in Hedge Fund directly after graduation. Also, if anyone is doing fund of fund or family office, email me. Q&A


 

My post visibly didn't go through previously. Could you expland on HF recruiting out of UG. I guess you were attending one of LSE/Oxbridge. You mentionned netowrking, but was this job sourced through netowrking? Or were they openly recruiting? Which division did you intern at GS? And why did you decide not to stay at a large bank offering a much more structured training program?

 
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Did you have a portfolio of actionable ideas while networking into the HF? My goal is to be an analyst at a distressed debt fund, to get there I will most likely try to break-into RX and work on the client side to build connections. I'm at a UK non-target and the only other non-target guy I know of who went straight to an investment team under a value mandate did the whole direct mail campaign with actionable ideas thing.

Are there any 'outside the box' ways of breaking in that you advocate for. Congrats on UG -> HF, did you always deep down know this will happen (high self-efficacy) or did you stumble into it?

 

Thanks for doing this.

What’s the ratio, would you say, of L/S hedge fund analysts coming from IBD vs HF analysts coming from equity research?

I’m currently starting off on equity research with the plan to move into L/S and want to correctly position myself ahead of it. Thanks

 

What specific experience do you think recruiters for L/S HFs look for in IBD analysts?

Is public M&A experience key?

 

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