Would You Take a Job at This Hedge Fund?

January 23, 2012

This hedge fund made a whopping $76.9 billion in profits last year, on a portfolio of nearly $3 trillion in assets. And its track record has held up surprisingly well, even through the financial crisis. The fund of course is the U.S. Federal Reserve, which Steven Davidoff labels a hedge fund because of the way […]

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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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Hedge Fund Basics for the Entry Level Hedge Fund Job Seeker

January 10, 2012

A hedge fund is a fund that uses more non-traditional investing strategies to try to reduce volatility and risk, while attempting to preserve capital and deliver positive returns under ALL market conditions. This last part is the most notable difference from traditional investments. Regardless of whether the market is moving up or down, a hedge […]

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2012 Hedge Fund Compensation Report

January 10, 2012

SAN DIEGO, CA, January 10, 2012 — The 2012 Hedge Fund Compensation Report reveals that hedge fund managers anticipated an increase in base salary but a shortfall in year-end bonuses. The average reported cash compensation for 2011 was $311,000, just slightly higher than last year’s compensation. The annual industry report is based on data collected […]

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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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Jobless on Wall Street

January 3, 2012

When the latest unemployment numbers were released,  it showed an unexpected drop in unemployment. The unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent; experts were predicting that the rate would remain at 9.0 percent. There were 120,000 new jobs added in November, many of which were in the professional and business services industries. Unfortunately, this is not […]

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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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