Sentences with phrase «works as hedge»

Those seeking to work as Hedge Fund Analysts should be able to display a degree in a finance - related field in their resumes.

Not exact matches

(Lewis used to work for Thiel as the vice president of marketing at Clarium Capital, a hedge fund run by Thiel.)

He also worked as head of macro trading and CFO at Tiger Management, the hedge fund founded by investing legend Julian Robertson.

As general counsel for the hedge fund Long - Term Capital Management (LTCM), he had a front row seat as dozens of Wall Street institutions worked to bailout the firm with a $ 3.6 billion recapitalizatioAs general counsel for the hedge fund Long - Term Capital Management (LTCM), he had a front row seat as dozens of Wall Street institutions worked to bailout the firm with a $ 3.6 billion recapitalizatioas dozens of Wall Street institutions worked to bailout the firm with a $ 3.6 billion recapitalization.

During a conference call to discuss first - quarter results for his hedge fund firm Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman described an «intensive» process over the past few weeks as he and a handful of his employees have worked with the embattled drugmaker in its search for a new leader.

Prior to this role he was an editor at Yahoo Finance, worked as an equity analyst at hedge funds and as an investment analyst at a fund of funds.

Before revolutionizing the hedge fund industry with his mathematics - based approach, «Quant King» James Simons worked as a code breaker for the US Department of Defense during the Vietnam War, but was fired after criticizing the war in the press.

He also works with a small group of elite hedge fund managers and executives as the managing director of macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm, Greenmantle.

Prior to joining MacFarlane Partners, she worked at the Stanford Management Company where she focused on portfolio management and risk analytics as well as hedge fund investing.

After dropping out of an elite Manhattan high school, he worked as an intern for Jim Cramer's hedge fund as a 17 - year - old and quickly impressed with his ability to call stocks.

After leaving the White House, Summers's decision to work as a consultant for financial - sector clients such as Citigroup and the hedge fund company D.E. Shaw have added to that image.

Before joining Thundelarra in April 2012, he spent 29 years working in both the equities markets as a mining research analyst specialising in the exploration and early producer segment; and also in the debt markets as a project financier and as a corporate banker servicing the financing, hedging and day - to - day transactional banking needs of Australian resource companies of all sizes.

Prior to joining the GEBS team, Mr. Schneider worked as a portfolio manager in SSGA's Currency Management Group, managing both active currency selection and traditional passive hedging overlay portfolios.

As ProPublica detailed in 2010, Magnetar worked with investment banks to build CDOs that the hedge fund also bet against.

He previously worked as an equity analyst in the hedge fund industry.

But as correlations fall, the risk that a hedge won't work also rises.

He has previously worked for Overlay Asset Management, ABN Amro Asset Management and Fortis Investments as a senior currency manager for a broad range of absolute return, hedge fund and currency overlay mandates.

Specialising in alternative investments as well as in quantitative fields, Ludovic has worked in the hedge funds industry, credit advisory, portfolio leverage analysis, Basel regulatory capital requirements and lending activities, while liaising with group offices before developing new services from TCA Asset Management since 2011.

Presumably with the way in which the Abra smart contracts work mean that in future you might be able to transfer to other stores of value (thinking specifically of precious metals such as gold or silver) in order to hedge both crypto and fiat currency risk?

More people would be able to keep their jobs even as the PE drops, bitcoin drops, hedges and credit default instruments drop, real estate drops... BASICALLY YOU PROP UP MAIN STREET AND WORKING CLASS WHILE WALL STREET AND REAL ESTATE DEFLATE BACK TO THE MEAN.

We can even come up with hedge ratios that show the theoretical tradeoff between tranches as losses increase or decrease, which might work, might, if you are a small player in that market.

As a result, many formerly effective risk hedges no longer work in an environment where valuations are decidedly late cycle.

... this book suggests concrete investing strategies to make Congress's systemic dysfunction work for you, and to hedge the risk and damage that Congress so casually and relentlessly inflicts on your life savings as represented by your portfolio and your house.»

Some of them are ambitious business people or professionals, but many more patch together a living out of two or three part - time jobs, or work overtime as an employer's hedge against new hiring.

To continue breastfeeding her daughter after she returned to work, Tulsa computer analyst Connie Hedge pumped milk in airport bathrooms, in her office cubicle behind a privacy curtain, and at the wheel of her car as she careened along the tollways of Oklahoma.

Even as he hedges on the WFP's Row E, Cuomo has accepted the state Independence Party line, even though it is in the crosshairs of the Manhattan DA's office in connection with a $ 750,000 contribution passed through the party to GOP consultant John Haggerty (now working for Carl Paladino).

For eight years, she's been the lightning rod of the charter movement, raising millions from hedge funders and foundations as she aggressively worked her close connections to the Bloomberg administration to take over space in public schools.

Harry Wilson's primary experience in working for an unregulated hedge fund, however, should serve as a warning sign to New York State voters, as should his refusal to release his tax returns.»

Their reasoning makes sense, especially in Florida, where Grayson faces a House Ethics Investigation over allegations he mixed his work as a congressman and hedge - fund manager.

Quinn hedged four more times as reporters asked whether Cuomo, a Democrat, supported the $ 15 figure that the Working Families Party and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio have championed.

Cuomo is running on the Democratic and Working Families lines, as well as the Women's Equality Party line, newly created and heavily promoted by the governor in part as a hedge against the W.F.P. And Howie Hawkins, running on the Green Party line, is polling around 9 percent.

«We view this as another example of how elected officials are working harder for billionaires,» said Michael Kink, a member of the pro-labor, anti-hedge fund Hedge Clippers campaign.

This comprehensive review highlights that trees and hedges, as well as other green infrastructure, must be used strategically to help create healthier, less polluted cities that are also more pleasant for everyone to live and work in.

I quit my job and went to work as a quantitative analyst for D. E. Shaw, a leading hedge fund.

«I'm superpractical,» she says, so she decided to hedge: She'd work as a clerk in health care law at a firm in New York City, and she'd go to Rome four to five times a year to do intensive study toward a doctorate.

She used those skills to help Bobby Axelrod build his hedge fund from the ground up and now works as the company's star in - house performance coach.

«The Big Short» (2015) Mannered but believable, Bale's Oscar - nominated work as eccentric hedge fund manager (and 2008 financial collapse prophet) Michael Burry was exactly what Adam McKay's film needed.

A rural working - class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times - fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan.

Middle - men get locked - up, since undefined - work is hedging - risk of invalid - work as Law - boundary - break among invalid - donations, so I hashed the bar - soap to the ground - floor jail - window during the hours up - to my - birthday.

The Strategic Growth Fund can be viewed as being hedged with slightly in - the - money put options, or alternatively, as having a full hedge, plus a position in slightly out - of - the - money index call options (because of how options work, those descriptions are essentially identical).

This strategy was almost completely absent from Hedge Fund Market Wizards because trend following no longer works as well as it used to.

(Note: hedging with Treasuries can work in normal markets, but fails utterly in panics, as happened in 1998.)

When I worked for a hedge fund as an insurance analyst, they called me the weatherman.

This is often in the context of a hedge or mutual fund that did not work as effectively as intended, creating an unexpected profit or loss instead.

In fact, some of these articles led me to quite a bit of scholarly work questioning stocks as an effective inflation hedge.

Now, as a note to risk managers, it is probably a bad idea to give control of hedging policy over to the line of business actuary, even though it worked out for the pension division of Provident Mutual.

Let's not forget, passive can beat active can beat truly active for long periods (hence the more recent performance of ETFs vs. mutual funds vs. hedge funds)... as frustrating as it can be, it's important to remember there's little correlation between the work you put into your portfolio & your actual short - term returns.

«Todd Tresidder retired at age 35, after working 12 years as a hedge fund investment manager running a $ 20 million - plus portfolio.

But if you don't have a pension from work, an annuity may still have a place in your portfolio as a hedge against «longevity risk» or the risk that you'll live much longer than you think.

Tobias worked as an analyst in a hedge fund before he founded Eyquem in 2010.