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The First 90 Days at Citadel, Jane Street, Millennium and HRT (opens the original)
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A new-grad quant trader or researcher at Jane Street or Hudson River Trading is commonly reported to earn around $400k to $500k in the first year, including sign-on.At Citadel and Citadel Securities, first-year packages for quantitative researchers can land in a similar range or higher.Those numbers are paid for expected future contribution.The first few months are where the firm starts deciding how quickly that contribution is likely to arrive.This piece starts on the first Monday after you joi
How a $10M Hedge Fund PM Actually Builds a Team (opens the original)
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A portfolio manager at a multi-manager platform who generates $10M of P&L in a year might take home around $1.3M.Part of the payout generated by that book also goes to the analysts working alongside the PM.That creates an important hiring trade-off.Adding another person can increase the amount of P&L the pod produces. It also adds fixed costs and, depending on the platform’s compensation structure, can reduce the PM’s own payout directly.Most candidates interviewing for pod seats never see that
Oil Falls Below $100 as the Nasdaq Returns to Record Highs (opens the original)
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Two developments moved markets this week on very different timescales.Oil fell back below $100 after Saudi Arabia restarted the East-West pipeline and hopes for de-escalation around Iran increased. Treasury yields moved back below 5%, while the Nasdaq reached a record high.At the same time, US market regulation continued shifting through agencies after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 procedural vote.This piece covers where the major asset classes sit, the regulatory chang
The Fed Hikes Into $100 Oil: Rates, Crowded CTAs and the AI Selloff (opens the original)
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The Federal Reserve raised rates on Wednesday for the first time since July 2023.The move came with the 10-year Treasury yield around 5%, a level the market touched briefly in 2023 but otherwise had not seen since 2007.Oil is part of the reason both moved.A drone strike on 11 September took Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline offline, while Brent traded above $100 through the week.This piece covers the Fed decision, the new dot plot, systematic positioning in rates and energy, Monday’s semiconduct
Why 2026 Is the Biggest Hedge Fund Hiring Year Since 2017 (opens the original)
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A net 45% of asset allocators told Goldman Sachs they intend to increase hedge fund exposure this year.That is the highest reading since the survey started tracking the question in 2017.Allocator intent is not a hiring figure, but the capital data shows that the conversion has already started.Global hedge fund assets reached a record $5.6 trillion at the end of the second quarter.That marked a fifteenth consecutive quarter of expansion, while the increase of more than $400bn in a single quarter
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