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Hedge Fund Careers

The Stearns Effect: Investment Banking and Hedge Fund Job Market

March 18, 2008

This morning CareerDiva.net wrote about the effect of Bear Stearns on the job market. “You commit yourself to a company, as many of these employees did and then one day, whammo…. all the workers, from the top down, saw themselves as part of a family….” This is a very similar situation to the thousands of […]

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Closing of a Multi-Billion Fund

February 22, 2008

Founded three years ago, Sailfish Capital had no trouble raising cash on the basis of its managers’ strong reputations. Six months ago, the Stamford-based, credit-focused fund was worth $2 billion. The last half-year has been an almost-steady decline, and co-founder Mark Fishman confirms the fund is shutting down. Read the NYT case study.

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New Career Guide from Glocap

February 18, 2008

A new guide to making a hedge fund career from major financial recruiter Glocap shouldn’t be overlooked ($45 plus shipping). Adam Zoia, founder and Managing Partner, and Aaron Finkel, VP and Head of Publications, collaborated on Getting a Job in Hedge Funds: An Inside Look at How Funds Hire. Click through to read the table […]

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Education, Experience, and the Right Opportunity

January 24, 2008

Mike Rothenburg recently told us how his background in engineering and consistent interest in finance and management led, in 2006, to launching Hi-Tech Futures with two colleagues. Tell us about your firm, as you would tell an investor. We’re a small Commodity Trading Advisor and Commodity Pool Operator. We’re certainly considered an emerging manager, with […]

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IT Roles – “The Short Track” – Stewart Koenig

January 18, 2008

Prime Consulting International (www.pci-search.com) is Stewart Koenig’s NY/CT-area recruiting shop. He recruits technology professionals into the financial world, doing up to 50% of his business with hedge funds. Tell us about your firm. The focus is the capital markets arena, both buy side and sell side firms. Hedge funds make up about 30-50% of our […]

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“Adjust Your Whole Life to Being Successful” – Scott Raybin

January 11, 2008

We recently spoke with Scott Raybin, general partner at Cani Capital Management, a Florida-based hedge fund. How did you get where you are now? I started off as a stockbroker working at Smith Barney back in 1993. I went into private equity in 1998, raising capital. In 1999, I worked at one of the largest […]

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Better to be Tough

November 26, 2007

A new study by University of Chicago suggests that tougher personality traits drive more success than traits like teamwork or flexibility. The study detailed personal assessments of 313 CEO job candidates (225 were actually hired) whose performance drove the study’s conclusions. The data was collected by ghSmart, who does much of its work for private-equity […]

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