Buy-side Career
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Hedge Fund & Mutual Fund
Before you join the industry
- FAQs I will never answer again
- Equity Investment Style Primer
- What to know before chasing buy-side
- How to Break Into the Buy Side
- Crafting a winning stock pitch
- 7 Reasons NOT to Work for a Start-up HF
- 5 Quickest Paths to HFs
- 5 Misconceptions about HFs
- 10 Delusions
- Don’t work remotely
If you are not making progress
- Diagnose why you’re not breaking in
- Non-skill reasons why you got rejected
- CFA isn't going to solve anything
- MBA, not a magical train to the buy-side
For current buy-siders
- Leaving the buy-side (for good)
- Before You Trash the Sell-Side, Read This
- Making the most of sell-side research products
- Moving from value to growth investing
- "Going corporate" will be hard
How-to’s
- Advice for Junior Buy-siders
- Crafting a Winning Stock Pitch
- Generate Stock Ideas Quickly
- How to Generate a Variant View?
- Generalist vs. Specialist
Moat GOATs
- Analog Devices (ADI)
- EDA software (CDNS, SNPS)
- Specialty distributors (GWW, POOL, WSO, FAST)
- Copart (CPRT)
- Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL)
- Otis Elevators (OTIS)
Industry Trends
Finance Career Advice
- Equity Research Interview Tips
- Equity Research Resume Tips
- How to write
- Networking 101
- How to break into the “front office”
- On the tragic death of an IB associate
- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Get High Finance Jobs
- The big talent drain in finance
- Target School vs. Non-Target School
- Don't Quiet Quit - There is No Shortcut
- 9 Ways to Cope with Layoffs
Technology
- China in 2025: What It’s Like on the Ground Right Now
- AI's Impact on the Software Industry
- Coatue’s 2024 EMW (East Meets West) takeaways - public and private tech trends
- Bill Gurley blasts Capitol Hill
- Telecom / Cable Industry
- Bill Gurley on Internet Businesses
- Business Trends in China 2023 - My Field Work