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Hedge Fund Jobs

Hedge Fund Job Interviews: When They Don’t Call Back

August 22, 2011

You think you nailed the interview and walk out feeling great about your chances of landing a hedge fund job. But then the phone call and job offer never comes. What should you do? Email? Call? When does being pushy work against you? Forbes had an informative piece on just that topic. Career coaches they interviewed say […]

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A Top Hedge Fund Trader Under 30 Moves On

August 15, 2011

Swiss hedge fund firm Jabre Capital has lured a top-performing equities trader to the firm from Goldman Sachs, reports City A.M. The firm hired 27-year-old Mona El Isa, who was reportedly one of Goldman’s top proprietary cash equities traders and one of a group of traders profiled in Trader Monthly’s “Top 30 Under 30” list […]

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Hedge Fund Traders Succeeding in This Market

August 8, 2011

Amid the uncertainty surrounding European markets and the turmoil of the U.S. debt crisis, one group of hedge fund traders seems to be leading the pack. Hedge fund traders who ignore the direction of the overall markets and instead use options to take advantage of fluctuations in the price of securities have been making money […]

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Brain Training for a Hedge Fund Job

August 1, 2011

If you want to get an inside look at what it takes to be a quant trader, or land a hedge fund job in automated trading, check out the interview with Peter Wiesing in a recent issue of Automated Trader Magazine. Wiesing is founder and CEO of Global Arbitrage Group. Interestingly, he has a background […]

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Working With Recruiters for Hedge Fund Jobs

July 25, 2011

Is working with a recruiter a good way to find a hedge fund job? Especially if you are just starting out in your career? That’s what one recent graduate from Cass Business School in London, wondered. He had just finished his MSc in finance and investment, while working part-time for a U.S. financial services company. […]

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Rising Stars in London Hedge Fund Jobs

July 4, 2011

London’s Telegraph recently profiled five “young guns” of the hedge fund world whom industry experts have pegged as rising stars. It’s worth taking a quick look at their hedge fund career trajectories. They include: Richard Staveley, 36, of River and Mercantile Asset Management. Staveley cut his teeth as a chartered accountant, worked for a hedge […]

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Does the Hedge Fund Job Culture Lead to Corruption?

June 27, 2011

There’s a buzz over George Packer’s long article on Raj Rajaratnam in the New Yorker this past week. But Felix Salmon, writing in a Reuter’s blog, suggests that those in hedge fund jobs are almost always looking for an edge in trading, and far more may be treading the fine line between exclusive information and […]

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