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 […]
Tag: 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 […]
Goldman traders are leaving for hedge funds before bonuses are paid
Goldman Sachs has developed a new execution algorithm. In an announcement last week, the firm said it launched a new algo called ‘AXIS’ on its Atlas high speed trading platform, and that the early results were “very promising.” This may be so, […]
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 […]
Ce trader français de 43 ans qui vient de gagner des millions grâce au COVID-19
Pierre Andurand est la preuve vivante que le télétravail peut s’avérer extrêmement lucratif. Confiné chez lui en raison du coronavirus, le trader de 43 ans, spécialisé dans les produits pétroliers, vient de réaliser l’un de ses meilleurs mois après avoir […]