I heard people in this group say, If you can show a track record of success then you will be able to raise capital!

Is this true?

Now let's keep skepticism aside for a bit and assume: Me aka an Indian nobody guy who has no background in finance or a degree or work in finance role is able to correctly predict the market and increase my returns substantially, how do i go about raising the capital for establishing my hedge fund in future, given I have the talent necessary but not the network or pedigree.

After all this is the most meritocratic endeavor and someone with talent should be able to attract capital right?

looking forward to hearing your advice.

All types of feedback are welcome. Positive or Negative.

But please try to make it helpful. Thank You.

We are launching an investment fund very soon, the jurisdiction we've selected does not require a fund administrator (only recommended).

Does anyone managing a sub $15m fund handle fund administration in-house? Since we will start with very low AUM of around $3-5m, I want to do fund admin ourselves to save $20-30k/year until we scale up and cross the $10-15m mark.

If anyone has done this - can you share your experience, main pain points and advice for a start up fund?

Title pretty much.

I'm hiring 3 Analysts for a Tech/Applied AI startup in NYC.

If you are in the Tiger cubs, large pod shops doing Equity Research (any sector), Strategy Research as a QR, Analyst and up to Sub PM.

You feel tired of all the constant churn, market vol

You enjoy this sector but you're spent

You enjoy building tools, dabbled in AI workflows, code relatively well, you enjoy people interactions

You still want to remain in the industry, but not doing the investing or trading all the time

I've got a role for you in NYC (no sponsorship). Pays competitive, up to 250k first year.

Ping me.

At barely over 1X sales SMWB

Customer Growth: Expanded large enterprise accounts (ARR over $100k) to 461.
Revenue Visibility: Multi-year subscriptions reached 64% of total ARR.
Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO): Surged 18% year-over-year to $297.7 million.
AI Momentum: Secured a major 7-digit Large Language Model (LLM) data training contract with a major tech firm and extended its AI-agent partnership with Manus.

Forward Outlook
Q2 2026 Guidance: Expected revenue between $74.5 million and $76.5 million.
Full-Year 2026 Revenue Guidance: Raised the lower bound to a range of $307.0 million to $315.0 million.
Full-Year 2026 Non-GAAP Operating Profit: Estimated between $17.0 million and $19.0 million.

Hello,

Would like to ask a simple question on pod shops as my knowledge is small and my vision over simplistic I guess :

For me the main thing is giving money to uncorrelated PMs, the volatility goes down and you put leverage ( Millenium exposure over 600B on SEC filing but only 87B from clients ).

Is that this simple ? What is the main challenge then, attracting talents, scaling with the AUM as some strategies can be constrained ?

What about their risk management ? Read from an LLM ( that was probably hallucinating ) that if a drawdown of more than 5% capital is pulled. Is it “just” about cutting the losers that see their alpha decay ?

As I said this is my simplistic view, now I would like to know where are the subtleties. If someone has some advices in the comments or that could just let me slide in their DM would be very much appreciated. I guess I just cannot be ignorant on this and would mean so much if I could get insights from people with proper understanding!

Thank you so much

Thoughts/critique?

Spent enough years in this business to know that the mythology of the lone PM was always only half true. Alpha has always mattered, but the real differentiator over time was operationalizing that alpha into something allocators, regulators, and counterparties could actually trust at scale. The rise of Millennium, Citadel, and now the struggles even elite launches like Jain Global face all reinforce the same lesson: modern hedge funds are increasingly machines for operational alpha as much as investment insight.

What resonates with me here is the idea that the future may not belong solely to better traders or quants, but to whoever best builds the infrastructure layer that forms, validates, and scales PMs before they ever become institutional products. In many ways, the next great evolution in hedge funds may be less about finding the next genius—and more about redesigning the system that produces them.

“Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics” -General Omar Bradley.

https://podium-finance.com/blog/ai-native-hedge-funds-and-yc

Hello, 

I was admitted into Ross and LSE for my undergraduate studies. I am looking to go into hedge funds post college. I do know the most common pathway is through IB, but if possible I'd like to directly go into a hedge fund.

Thankfully, finances are not really much of a deciding factor for me. I also might want to pursue an MBA 4-5 years after my undergraduate (might apply for a 2+2). From what I understand, LSE is far more prestigious and recognisable anywhere outside of the USA, whereas Ross would position me far better for the American financial services industry.

Which should I choose? 

Research Analyst role - Applied AI/Tech

Will keep it short folks.

NYC based role.
Current or ex Equity Research no more than 6 years, have to be on the public equities desks ideally at a fund or a big bank.

Believes in and demonstrated building, integrating AI tools that help with your equity research work.

Communicates well, collaborative environment, wants to work in the intersection of equity research but leveraging AI tools.

Pays up to 220-250 base.

TLDR, if you work in equity research, likes to tinker and use lots of AI tools, build research projects in your free time, wants to stay in research but not necessarily be tied to trading P&L, hire and fire culture all the time (let’s be honest it do be like that in our space), ping me.

just got into point72 academy spring sessions and was wondering if it is competitive and worth doing. the language used in the acceptnace didnt make it seem too exclusive so i was wondering if anyone could voice a better understanding of this. thanks!!

anyone know anything about or even have an inside scoop on 2 sigma?

I‘m primarily asking because they’ve amassed a position in a small cap stock I own

is anyone familiar with their strategy and especially why they would buy the same small cap stock as me? (it’s a great company so obviously they should…).

it’s a micro cap stock with a current market cap of <150 mil which seems strange I mean sure there’s loads of upside but they have 60 bil AUM so why even bother?