Memories being what they are in financial services, some people may already have forgotten about Michel Sindelar, the former head of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) equities and then EMEA distribution at Bank of America (BofA) who disappeared in October 2018. Not for long, however: Sindelar […]
Hedge Funds
How to get the hottest new jobs in hedge funds
Hedge funds can be lucrative places to work when you’re a data scientist. As we reported in November, there are hedge funds like Citadel and Point72 paying data scientists and data analysts salaries of up to $200k in New York City, with […]
La plus grosse erreur de ma carrière en hedge fund ? Avoir emmené ma femme en voyage d’affaires…
J’ai travaillé sur le buy-side pendant de nombreuses années. Comme je m’en étais déjà plaint, le salaire n’est pas assez élevé (il ne l’a jamais été), mais il y a bien un domaine où il n’y a vraiment rien à redire : les hôtels. […]
This is what you do all day as a systematic trader at a hedge fund
Some of the best jobs in contemporary trading are for systematic traders working with quantitative hedge funds. These are traders who design trading strategies using computing models, which trade automatically. It’s a job that might sound low maintenance – you design […]
Asia’s Flourishing Hedge Fund Industry By Goldman Sachs
Asian hedge funds are one of the bright spots in the hedge fund industry, fueled by strong inflows, robust performance and China’s moves to open up its financial markets. We caught up with Goldman Sachs’ Padideh Raphael, whose team recently hosted […]
Interview with Dr. Peng She, Co-Founder & CIO of Golden Pine Asset Management
Dr. Peng She is the co-founder and CIO of Golden Pine Capital. He graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing with Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees. In May 2016, he established Golden Pine Capital, the investment manager of Golden Pine Fund. […]
Variant Perspectives: Women in Value Investing
Women are running sub-scale businesses, and this is not due to performance,” said Barbara Ann Bernard, founder of global equity long/short Wincrest Capital, which has outperformed the average long short/equity fund, and generously sponsored the inaugural Variant Perspectives (VP) conference […]
DCI’s Market Neutral Credit UCITS and AIF Strategy
Founded in 2004, San Francisco-based DCI was one of the first firms to run a market neutral credit strategy, which launched in 2007. The firm’s unique systematic investment process, including fundamental, quantitative and statistical elements, dates back to groundbreaking academic […]
50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds 2018
This is the sixth edition of our 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds report, again generously sponsored by EY. Our report highlights women leading all verticals in hedge funds, allocators to hedge funds and associated service providers. We feature portfolio […]
Hedge Fund Myth
This week I heard yet another presentation from a large financial institution regarding their hedge fund replication product—described as “average hedge fund returns–without the lock-ups and the costs of a typical hedge fund”. Cringe—that statement is just wrong on so […]