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Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

Mergers and Inquisitions

People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. So, for example, quarterly financial models are more common in equity research, as are detailed bottoms-up models used in initiating coverage reports.

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Long-Only Hedge Funds: A Cozy Career, or a Complete Contradiction?

Mergers and Inquisitions

And if you are interested in this strategy, should you even target hedge funds, or would a long-only asset management firm be better? And if you are interested in long-only investing, should you target asset management firms instead? This second trade would be much less likely at a long-only asset management firm.

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Multi-Manager Hedge Funds: A Meritocratic Paradise or a Revolving Door of Burnout?

Mergers and Inquisitions

What Do You Do as a Multi-Manager Hedge Fund Analyst? You might think that as a Hedge Fund Analyst , you’ll do deep market research, speak with counterparties, suppliers, and customers, and build detailed financial models to support your views… …and you would do those things if you were at a single-manager hedge fund.

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Event-Driven Hedge Funds: The Best Home for Bankers Turned Investors?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Part of the issue is that many different strategies fall within the “event-driven” category: merger arbitrage , activist investing , distressed investing, special situations, and more. With this one, you need to look at the entire category , which means merger arbitrage on one end and activist on the other.

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What are T-Shaped Skills? Why does it Matter in Finance?

Peak Frameworks

Deep Expertise in Financial Modeling, Analysis, and Valuation: At its core, finance revolves around understanding numbers. Financial modeling and analysis, for instance, were crucial during Apple's acquisition of Beats, enabling decision-makers to understand the true value of the deal and the potential return on investment.

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Fixed Income Research: The Overlooked Younger Brother of Equity Research?

Mergers and Inquisitions

For the right person, though, fixed income research can be even better than equity research, whether you’re at a bank, an asset management firm, a hedge fund, or a credit rating agency: Table of Contents: What is Fixed Income Research? You cover quarterly earnings and send updated models and notes to clients and other teams.

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Single-Manager Hedge Funds: The Best Way to Get a Recurring Guest Spot on CNBC?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Speaking with customers, suppliers, management teams, and market participants. In-depth analysis that might take days or weeks, such as a financial model with 1,000 rows in Excel to assess a biopharma company’s valuation. Read the filings, build a model, and make a long/short pitch”).