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Add This Firm to Your Hedge Fund Job Search

January 16, 2012

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 No. 20 in the Bloomberg […]

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Useful Reading for a Hedge Fund Job

January 9, 2012

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 Rich Blake (Wiley). McCullough is […]

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Hedge Fund Jobs Year in Review

January 2, 2012

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 with the banks deferring […]

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Where Are the Traders Now? In Hedge Fund Jobs

December 26, 2011

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 to losing people,” according […]

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Any Good News Regarding Hedge Fund Jobs?

December 12, 2011

With tighter regulations on the horizon, less-than-stellar 2011 returns, calls to end the treatment of hedge fund profits as capital gains, uncertain markets, the European debt crisis and more, it isn’t easy good news in the hedge fund job sector these days. But hey, you can get enough gloom-and-doom from other sources. It’s our job […]

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Social Media Not the Best Choice for a Hedge Fund Job

November 21, 2011

Building an online presence is important for supporting your hedge fund job search. But using social media may not be the way to go, at least, not yet. A recent survey of 77 hedge fund managers globally, each in charge of at least $1 billion in assets under management, shows that the vast majority are […]

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A Hedge Fund Job for a Nobel Prize Winner

November 7, 2011

Okay, so hedge funds are known for hiring rocket scientists, nuclear engineers and other big-brain types for hedge fund jobs. The latest news only serves to confirm the trend as Thomas J. Sargent of New York University, this year’s co-recipient of the Nobel in economic science, has recently signed on as a consultant for Hutchin […]

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