How to Succeed as a Hedge Fund Manager

August 30, 2010

How does a 33-year-old afford the $12 million home formerly owned by Lloyd Blankfein, head of Goldman Sachs? The Financial Post recently tried to answer that question as it looked at the meteoric rise of Bryce Markus, a senior portfolio manager with BlueMountain Capital Management LLC. BlueMountain is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor, which […]

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Hedge Fund Managers Move On

August 23, 2010

Several high profile hedge fund managers have decide to throw in the towel and leave the industry, citing growing frustration over increased regulations, higher taxes on profits and disappointment with returns. The latest is Stanley Druckenmiller, who managed $12 billion at Duquesne Capital Management, reports Reuters. His decision was reportedly due to “burnout”, after amassing […]

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Boutiques to Spur Hedge Fund Jobs?

August 16, 2010

Money managers unhappy with the direction of their big bank are once again leaving to start their own firms, reports the Financial Times. The reasons vary, from being forced to alter cherished and time-tested strategies that have worked for them, to being told to cut back on analyst resources to simply having to dance to […]

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Will Pensions Drive Hedge Fund Investment and Jobs?

August 9, 2010

The gap between what many U.S. public and private pension funds have in assets and what they’ll need to cover their pension obligations is like a “heart attack waiting to happen.” That’s the news according to a recent article in Finalternatives. U.S. public pension funds are $500 billion to $3 trillion short in the amount […]

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Hedge Fund High-Frequency Programmers Demand Better Pay

August 2, 2010

The code monkeys who create the algorithms for Wall Street’s high-frequency trading shops are demanding a bigger slice of the pie, reports Forbes. And while some are getting hefty raises, others are deciding to go out on their own in order to get a share of profits. The article cites one programmer, Jeffrey Gomberg, 32, […]

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Advice on Getting a Hedge Fund Job

July 26, 2010

A rather lame article appeared in Forbes about getting a job at a hedge fund, filled with such trite advice as “get ready to be aggressive about networking” and “design your search strategy to fit the hyper pressurized, risk-taking culture” of hedge funds. It is our contention here at HedgeFundDigest that to get a job […]

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Ready to Leave Your Job and Start a Hedge Fund?

July 22, 2010

The usual trickle of bank traders wanting to leave their firms to start their own hedge funds has turned into a flood, according to a recent article in Britain’s Telegraph. Among them are traders from Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and the former Wells Fargo. In some cases the reason is tighter bank regulations […]

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