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This Week in Hedge Funds

May 9, 2008

This week’s roster of new firms with fund-raising completed, underway, or soon to begin. Emergent Asset Management will launch its Global FX Fund and Geo Macro Fund this summer. The Sasco Energy Fund, founded by Todd Esse (co-founder of Sempra Energy Trading), will trade in natural gas. R3 Capital Partners, header by Rick Rieder of […]

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2008 Hedge Fund Compensation Report Coming Soon

May 7, 2008

Last year’s Hedge Fund Compensation Report by Hedge Fund Search Digest was based on hundreds of responses to the 2007 Survey, representing small and large firms including startup shops and the biggest banks. With turmoil in the markets and the employment picture rapidly evolving, the 2008 Report will be a must-read. The 2008 Survey will […]

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2008 Job Forecast, Part II: Hedge Fund Industry

May 6, 2008

We followed up directly with finance recruiter Kathy Graham about her 2008 Financial Services Career Forecast (about which we posted a few days ago) to hear more about where hedge fund employment will head this year. Her are some of her thoughts. How can someone evaluate job security in an uncertain environment? Can you suggest […]

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This Week in Hedge Funds

May 3, 2008

HANRiver Capital will launch a Korea-focused hedge fund in July Threadneedle will launch a commodities hedge fund in the fall The Hermosa Capital Fund, based in California, will hold positions in ETFs globally San Diego-based Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management launched its US Systematic Large Cap Growth 130/30, US Systematic Small-Mid Cap 130/30, and Global Equity 130/30 […]

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2008 Job Forecast: “Winter Can Be A Lovely Season”

May 2, 2008

Speculations and casual soothsaying about the markets abound. Seasoned finance recruiter Kathy Graham puts her job forecast down in writing, in five pages of detail. The 2008 installment of her annual Financial Services Job Forecast (now in its seventh year) examines upwards of a dozen indicators to produce a sector-based analysis of the likely developments […]

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Schwab Enterprise Changes Hands: News in Hedge Fund Recruiting

May 1, 2008

Landing, or offering, a hedge fund job means working with the busy, colorful world of hedge fund recruiting, and that’s why one of our themes is: Know your recruiter. Productive relationships with recruiters can last an entire career. Successful candidates advance, become clients with positions on offer, and then perhaps become candidates again at the […]

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Recent Hiring At Citadel … And Looking Forward

April 29, 2008

Reading about the movements of industry greats is fun, inspiring, and a source of challenge. It should also be thought-provoking. Reuters reports on two new hires (both pulled from JP Morgan Chase) into Citadel, a $20 billion hedge fund run by Ken Griffin (who ranks fifth on the list of top-paid hedge fund managers in […]

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