For millennials in investment banking (defined as those who reached adulthood after 2000, and who therefore joined the industry no earlier than 2004), the trial of British hedge fund celebrity Crispin Odey is likely to be a curious time capsule. It’s sort […]
Hedge Funds
How to get a job at hedge fund Millennium
If you’re trying to get a job at hedge fund Millennium Management, prepare to fail. As might be expected, getting into the fund is challenging. The latest investor letter from Millennium founder Izzy Englander clarifies precisely how challenging it is. “We hire roughly […]
How hedge fund non-competes can mean you’re paid twice over
It’s not easy saying goodbye to a job at a hedge fund. Not only are you walking away from the opportunity to earn exorbitant amounts of money (unless of course you’re moving to another hedge fund), but you may well be constrained […]
COVID nightmares for women in hedge funds
Working in an investment role for a hedge fund during a time of family strife is a challenge irrespective of your gender. – In 2013, Paul Tudor Jones controversially claimed that hedge fund managers’ returns fall by 10-20% when they’re going […]
Singapore set for 2021 hedge fund hiring boom
Buy-side hiring in Singapore is set to rise next year as more global hedge funds set up in the city and search for talent. But their recruitment could be delayed by local skills shortages and difficulties obtaining work permits for […]
Voici la journée-type d’un trader systématique dans un hedge fund…
Certains des meilleurs jobs dans le trading actuel sont pour les traders systématiques travaillant avec des hedge funds quantitatifs. Ce sont des traders qui conçoivent des stratégies de trading en utilisant des modèles informatiques, qui tradent automatiquement. C’est un travail qui […]
Hedge fund’s generous effort to persuade staff back to the office
There are at least two types of “offers that you can’t refuse”. There’s the kind which you can’t refuse because it’s so generous, and there’s the kind which you can’t refuse because something nasty will happen to you if you […]
The Holy Grail of hedge fund jobs may be a chimera
I spent many years working for a large quant hedge fund. It was fun, but there were some downsides: a long commute into a city centre office, a lot of meetings, and the inevitable downsides of being a salaried employee. But […]
The top quant hedge funds to work for, and why
Quant funds had a tough 2019 and performance could drag this year as well. Meanwhile a lot of talent from the sell-side is instead flowing into private equity and alternative asset managers like Blackstone and Carlyle. As quant funds recalibrate, market share […]
Bank of America’s ex-head of equity distribution is hiring for his hedge fund
Memories being what they are in financial services, some people may already have forgotten about Michel Sindelar, the former head of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) equities and then EMEA distribution at Bank of America (BofA) who disappeared in October 2018. Not for long, however: Sindelar […]