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Keep An Eye On Hedge Fund Opportunities

April 15, 2008

Amid prominent fund closures, we’ve suggested that nevertheless the news might not be all bad for hedge funds and the employment picture in particular. This article supports that idea and more, in interviews with multiple prominent recruiters who have also posted hedge fund jobs with Hedge Fund Search Digest or been interviewed here. The upshot: […]

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The Bear Job Market

April 9, 2008

JPMorgan: 26,000 employees in Investment Banking and Trading Bear Stearns: 14,000 employees That could be a lot of people looking for work – see Reuters’ recent article: “Bear Stearns employees flood Wall Street rivals with resumes.” A financial recruiter, The Options Group, reports receiving 10-15 resumes per day from Bear employees. Are there jobs for […]

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Upheaval and Opportunity

April 9, 2008

One theme of a recent NYT article is that Wall Street layoffs may soon propagate to other areas: “Last year, the finance industry was responsible for nearly a third of all wages earned in the city, the highest in modern times. And each Wall Street job supports three workers in other sectors.” Mark Zandi, chief […]

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Wide Scope for Engineers

April 2, 2008

The business and financial knowledge required by hedge fund IT jobs varies widely according to the position. While a quant job definitely requires financial expertise, a solid engineer can land a job developing trading or accounting systems with no experience in the markets at all. Or, he or she can build on a base of […]

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Survey Respondents Report Seniority

April 1, 2008

Respondents to our 2007 survey on hedge fund compensation were asked to characterize their level of seniority relative to others in their firm. Seniority in a firm may be less closely tied in the hedge fund industry, than elsewhere, to years of overall industry experience, partly because mobility is high and partly because raw talent […]

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Range of Hedge Fund Employee Compensation in 2007

March 28, 2008

Here’s 2007 hedge fund compensation in a nutshell. This chart is excerpted from the latest Hedge Fund Search Digest Compensation Survey, which had responses from individuals representing over 200 firms. Note that not all ranges on the vertical axis are of the same size. Increments are of 50,000 up to 300,000.

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Hedge Fund Equity Research Analyst Job in New York

March 28, 2008

You could spend hours each week looking at uninformative or repetitive hedge fund job posts. A helpful job post is concise and tells something about the hiring firm, the responsibilities of the position, and the required qualifications, without a lot of unnecessary “filler”. Here’s an example. Equity Research Analyst, Long/Short Hedge Fund , New York, […]

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