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

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And if you are interested in this strategy, should you even target hedge funds, or would a long-only asset management firm be better? Long-Only with Derivatives to Hedge Risk – For example, a fund might only buy stocks, but it could use put options or other derivatives to hedge its risk and justify the fees.

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

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Multi-manager hedge funds promise investors solid risk-adjusted returns with low volatility; no matter what the broader market does, you’ll make money if you invest in them. What Do You Do as a Multi-Manager Hedge Fund Analyst? If Company Z announces a new product at this upcoming conference, how much could its stock price increase?

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

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While everyone seems to know about equity research and trading stocks, fixed income research gets far less attention. The confusing part is that fixed income research exists at banks (“ sell-side roles ”), buy-side firms such as asset managers and hedge funds , and even credit rating agencies, and each one differs.

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

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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”).

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

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But even if the specific catalysts never materialize, the stock price might still increase by 20% or 30%. If you want more, there are several Sum of the Parts lessons in the valuation sections of our Financial Modeling Mastery course. Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM), Pentwater, Silver Point, Anchorage, and King Street.

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Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Full Guide to the Industry, Recruiting, Careers, and Exits

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Some SWFs operate like long-only asset managers (i.e., mutual funds ) that allocate their assets top-down and then pick specific indices, companies, and securities that meet their criteria. They might ask you to pitch a stock, but it will be less formal than in ER and HF interviews. How would you invest in Industry X?” “Why

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

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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.