What the fuck should I do?
Hi guys.
I'm currently 16 and a year away from leaving school. I want to pursue a career in Hedge Funds since I really enjoy learning about financial markets and investing. I live in Australia which amounts to nearly fuck all in the Hedge Fund and AM industry. However I have interned twice at a Hedge Fund and I have some contacts in the industry. I'm starting to stress, what would you guys do?
Either
a) go to a top 12 uni in the world in finance and accounting in Australia and try and land a ER/AM role out of uni, then maybe try and transfer overseas to a ER/AM role
or
b) study in the uk at a non big 6 university (probably not a target school) and hopefully get a ER/AM role out of uni.
I'd like to hear what you would do.
What uni in the UK? Which unis did you apply to via UCAS?
none yet but I'm thinking St Andrews, Warwick and maybe Surrey. Not sure if these are target or not.
If you are looking to get into finance, in rough order I would say Oxbridge, Imperial, UCL, Warwick, Edinburgh, and then throw in St. Andrews or Bristol for your 6th.
Admittedly not the expert on either Aus or the UK, but if you have hedge fund internships and connections locally, and can go to a better school locally, why are you worried about going somewhere that has no idea about the legitimacy of your internships, where you have no connections, and to what seems to be a worse school?
Warwick is a target, depending on your course. Go for maths, econ, some sort of hard science, and less so finance/business.
Anything flies as long as you're at a target.
What Australian uni are you considering?
There are still opportunities in Australia to work in the industry, albeit not as numerous.
Melbourne university
fucking 16 years old and thinking about HF fuck me dead m8
scary thing is I've been researching Hedge Funds since I was 15. Yeah I'm very odd
You have a crazy ambition mate. Just make sure you truly understand why you have this ambition
So that's like...one year? That shit will be there in a year or two...Go get yourself into a couple girls and a case of beer, don't get arrested or kill anyone, and have fun not having basically any responsibility.
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Chill the fuck out and ensure that you can have a normal conversation with someone. If this isn't a troll, you are incredibly experienced already and can only go up form here. If I were you, I would focus on getting into a good school, and having some fun in the process.
SSits is an aussie
Hedge funds are many and varied, so there are many paths to many different types of hedge funds. A large number of those start local, based on the number of Australian ex-pat HF people I've met in my time.
What particular HF strategies and sectors are you interested in?
Hi man thanks for the feedback.
Currently I'm trying to keep an open mind about HF strategies, so I'm not particularly focusing on any HF strategies but the ones that have interested me the most are Distressed debt, Global Macro and Convertible Arbitrage strategies.
two internships at age 16? good for you ... the only thing I did when I was 16 was smoke pot and masturbate ... usually in that order
I suspect "internship" = a few days work experience under a school work experience program. That's fairly standard in the Australian education system. It's a little aggressive to describe it as an internship.
still looks better on a resume than masturbation... or does it?
By the time you're applying for a full time role, you wouldn't be putting your 10th grade work experience role on your resume unless you were incredibly naive or incredibly desperate.
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