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FoF sucks, nothing new under the sun: you pay fees on top of other fees for returns that are hardly spectacular...there's no such thing as a free lunch...

Well...1.33 M AUM...with all the due respect for a guy of his age...hardly a whiz..."The ultimate goal is to provide annual profits"...worth alone a leading role on the show... http://www.barclaygrp.com/cgi-bin/baid/details.cgi/agkdggoqsrrnnsrrsroov/_top?prog_id=25106505&was_searched=y

Economist (the best) Fortune Institutional Investor+Alpha Free: Currency Trader Trader Monthly

Bitstream, parole sante... cheers from Brianza (the land of unemployment under 2% :D)

Awesome article that really deserves its own thread (putting it on page 42 wasn't a wise move), thanks nitro. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1157458#post1157458

Thanks for the article, hope the party isn't over before I'll join it:D

It really depends if your interviewers will be people from HR or from the desks: in the first case expect the usual recruiting shit like leadership, extracurriculars, why did you do this, why did you do that and so on... in the second case expect a lot more technical questions, even though you...

An interesting article on nature vs. nurture... maybe one day...:D http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945&pageNumber=1&catID=2

Well seems to me Jim Simons's traded is way out quite handily... http://www.charttricks.com/Resources/Articles/jim_simons.pdf :D

So true, definitely agree with your old post.

http://www.nordpool.no/ http://www.nymex.com/JM_desc.aspx http://www.sfe.com.au/content/sfe/products/elec.htm not sure about the rest but i guess it's mainly OTC stuff; hope this helps.

Don't buy the book... browse his website instead! I'm no big fan of the "preacher" Michael Covel but his site contains a lot of good material, after you've sorted through the usual marketing fluff... personally I haven't read the book and I'm not going to but they've told me 90 % of the things...

Agree... I think the expansion was geared only to the energy products though :mad:

I guess it's because these contracts are mainly pit traded, with only after-hours electronic trading, not sure though... I'd be very interested in having them too on IB.

By the way I've never seen a thread where people corrected themselves so quickly...:D

You're right, my info was a bit dated (Sep 05):D, here's the Alpha magazine ranking: Top three hedge fund firms each grew by $9 billion over the past 12 months. Goldman Sachs Asset Management, with $21 billion in single-manager hedge funds, has come top of the 2006 Hedge Fund 100, Alpha...

Actually world's largest hedge fund is Bridgewater Associates with $17.7 billion in assets according to Absolute Return magazine, anyway looking at the top of the list really seems that quant guys really took the lead (in terms of assets, performance iss a whole different story...).

If you're going after a place on an IB desk then (provided you don't have inside contacts that is) an high GPA it's a BASIC condition not to have your CV thrown out of the window as soon as they read it: I perfectly agree than being booksmarts per se won't get you very far in trading, but let's...

MBF runs an internship program every summer, though looking at some interns CVs (if you don't have contact there that is) you may have better chances applying at Goldman for a prop position!