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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”).

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

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. The approval process might take longer (say, 2-3 months rather than 1 month) because more people need to weigh in.