Tuck for prop. trading / Hedge funds
I searched a thousand times in a thousand forums... But I am lost whether the Dartmouth Tuck MBA is really good for prop trading and hedge funds...
Are there any alumni here? Or any colleagues or friends of alumni??
I have a background in energy (various leadership roles working in over 15 countries in the last 5 years). Part time futures trader (commodities/oil/gas). Post MBA I want to move into trading energy futures and long term hedge funds....
BUT, looking at Tuck list of courses, or even professors, they are, frankly @@@@. Even compared to Yale, there is not even a mention of say Behavioral Finance, or a half-decent mention of financial engineering of any sort.... OK, It is a general management program... but despite all this, is it possible to crack Trading/HF jobs from Tuck??? Any examples you guys know of?
Dartmouth stays away from finance in general. Their engineering school doesn't offer a finance concentration, and there is no undergrad finance program either. I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
...and yet Dartmouth has produced Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner, Greg Jensen, Stephen Mandel, Leon Black, and scores of monkeys at BBs per year. I hate Dartmouth with a passion, but those are the facts.
I agree, they are the facts. The fact is they also didn't study Finance in college. I'm a big proponent of a liberal arts education, and I like that Dartmouth is out there demonstrating that it works.
OK!!!! Interesting!!!! It is a shame if Tuck doesnt teach finance well... Finance was the only topic worth learning in an academic setting (as against learning marketing bulls@@t)
A friend got a surprised look from his interviewer at Tuck when asked what he wanted to do after Tuck and answered "financial services." While Ken French teaches at Tuck and his class fills up fast, there is little else I'm told.
theyre decent at traditional asset management (boston long only) but theyre generally a consulting/management heavy place
you want to trade energy products or something like equities?
Nearly all of those were MBA from HBS... that shaped their fin/econ outlook more than Dartmouth... I am looking at an MBA at Tuck.... why? HBS doesnt like my profile.
Thanks for the comments guys... I want to trade commodities (futures of oil, gas, base metals, precious metals, rare earths, and structure various financial products in them to sell to industries).... Atleast they are easier to predict on a rigorous economic analysis.... I started with equities 4 years back, but equities are far more tougher to predict than commodities...
Also given my engineering undergrad, I am looking at something solid in financial education to take my trading skills forward.... Somehow all the other forums/ posts always speak of Dartmouth/Tuck alum's incestuous network rather than discussing the skill....
typically mit/wharton/chicago/columbia are trading MBA places (but trading is being slashed hard and isnt a typical MBA hire either) but for energy you could also look at UT Austin
tuck is a private equity/consulting/general management shop MOSTLY but do decent with account/product management
Definitely applying to MIT/Wh/Col/Chicago.... Hope to get in... Somehow luck didnt work in previous year apps.
im not sure if it works or if its just the fact that its nepotism pulling kids from ivy schools lol
not that excel monkeying is overtly hard
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