Weiss Asset Management Interview

Hi all,

I just received an interview opportunity from Weiss Asset Management. Is there anyone who can shed some light on what to expect? WSO reviews say they are purely technical. Would reading "WSO technical interview guide" be helpful? (Although it's for IB..)

Only got three days to prep, any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Highly technical. I interviewed for full time. Be sure you understand game theory with options and multiple parties with skin in the game. This is probably because they do so much activist corporate raiding. They also care about some basic volatility stuff and how you can take advantage of random situations they create for you.

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Use to work at another hedge and interacted with Weiss. They do special situations activist stuff with equities and they are very very good. From what I heard, I think they are like 2 bil

Pennies from JcPenny
 

Thanks for the insight. I'm not an Ivy League guy so I doubt I stand a chance. They are/were recruiting on my campus though.

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