http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com Career Insights from the Hedge Fund Industry Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:03:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Four different hedge funds were implicated in the recent insider trading scandal involving Dell Computer shares. But only one of them managed to escape from the three-year investigation with their hedge fund jobs and business intact. Diamondback Capital Management managed to hold onto half of its $5 billion in assets, although ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/699/protecting-your-hedge-fund-job-from-an-insider-trading-scandal/ One of the most effective ways of landing a hedge fund job is to interview for a job that doesn't exist. If that sounds counter-intuitive, then check out a recent article in Forbes about mastering the "informational" interview. More people land jobs through these informal interviews than formal job-openings, according to ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/696/mastering-the-hedge-fund-informational-interview/ This hedge fund made a whopping $76.9 billion in profits last year, on a portfolio of nearly $3 trillion in assets. And its track record has held up surprisingly well, even through the financial crisis. The fund of course is the U.S. Federal Reserve, which Steven Davidoff labels a hedge fund ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/693/would-you-take-a-job-at-this-hedge-fund/ The $32.6 billion hedge-fund giant Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP emerged as one of the few firms to buck the trend of dismal returns in 2011. The firm's $26.4 billion Brevan Howard Master Fund Ltd. returned a solid 10.8 percent for the 10 months ended Oct. 31, ranking the fund ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/690/add-this-firm-to-your-hedge-fund-job-search/ A hedge fund is a fund that uses more non-traditional investing strategies to try to reduce volatility and risk, while attempting to preserve capital and deliver positive returns under ALL market conditions. This last part is the most notable difference from traditional investments. Regardless of whether the market is moving ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/673/hedge-fund-basics-for-the-entry-level-hedge-fund-job-seeker/ SAN DIEGO, CA, January 10, 2012 — The 2012 Hedge Fund Compensation Report reveals that hedge fund managers anticipated an increase in base salary but a shortfall in year-end bonuses. The average reported cash compensation for 2011 was $311,000, just slightly higher than last year’s ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/683/2012-hedge-fund-compensation-report/ It's a new year and time to kick things off with a little extra motivation to land your next hedge fund job. So you might want to pick up a copy of Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager: From The Top, To The Bottom, And Back Again, by Keith McCullough and ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/687/useful-reading-for-a-hedge-fund-job/ When the latest unemployment numbers were released,  it showed an unexpected drop in unemployment. The unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent; experts were predicting that the rate would remain at 9.0 percent. There were 120,000 new jobs added in November, many of which were in the professional and business services ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/668/jobless-on-wall-street/ One of the big hedge fund job stories 2011 had to be the exodus of traders from the proprietary trading desks of the big banks, either to take jobs at hedge funds or start their own firms. New regulations forced banks to take fewer risks with shareholder money, and that, along ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/680/hedge-fund-jobs-year-in-review/ One of the big stories of 2011 was surely the exodus of traders from the proprietary trading desks of the big banks. Financial firms are bleeding traders as U.S. and European regulators clamp down on the banks' ability to trade aggressively using shareholder cash. “Banks are particularly vulnerable at the moment ... http://hedgefundblog.jobsearchdigest.com/665/where-are-the-traders-now-in-hedge-fund-jobs/