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Hedge fund roles, tracked live.

The hedge fund landscape as a map rather than a list: the multi-strategy platforms that run published analyst academies, the single-manager funds that hire a handful of people a year, and the systematic firms that recruit like technology companies. Prime brokerage, fund services and long-only asset management are different businesses and are filed elsewhere, so a count here is a count of investing seats.

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16 Oct 2026

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Statuses recomputed from deadlines on every view. Included: Investment and research seats at a firm managing a hedge fund; Discretionary long-short, macro, credit and event-driven seats; Systematic and quantitative research where the seat is investing; The analyst academies and internships the platforms run. Not included: prime brokerage, fund services and fund administration; long-only asset management and wealth management; market making and bank sales and trading desks.

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27 hedge funds on the map, 1 with a role open today. The category and focus of each is maintained by hand and reviewed; the counts are today’s. A firm with nothing open stays on the map, because the landscape does not change with the week.

  • Point72

    Multi-strategy platforms

    Asset manager whose investing businesses are fundamental equities, Cubist systematic strategies, global macro and private investments, alongside the Point72 Academy for people early in their careers.

    • Long-short equity
    • Multi-strategy
    • Global macro
    • Systematic
  • Balyasny Asset Management

    Multi-strategy platforms

    Multi-strategy manager whose strategies include long-short equities and fixed income, with teams collaborating across strategies.

    • Multi-strategy
    • Long-short equity
    • Global macro
    • Systematic
  • Citadel

    Multi-strategy platforms

    Investment adviser registered with the SEC as Citadel Advisors LLC, based in Miami, with affiliated advisers in Europe, Asia and the Dubai International Financial Centre.

  • ExodusPoint Capital Management

    Multi-strategy platforms

    Multi-strategy platform founded in 2017, allocating to portfolio managers across fixed income, rates, credit, macro, fundamental and statistical equities, and systematic and event arbitrage strategies.

    • Multi-strategy
    • Global macro
    • Credit
    • Long-short equity
    • Systematic
    • Event-driven
  • Millennium

    Multi-strategy platforms

    Investment manager built around independent investment teams, describing its approach as entrepreneurial investing at scale.

    • Long-short equity
    • Global macro
  • Schonfeld Strategic Advisors

    Multi-strategy platforms

    Multi-manager platform combining independent investment teams with centralised risk management and infrastructure.

    • Multi-strategy
    • Quantitative research
    • Long-short equity
    • Global macro
  • Verition Fund Management

    Multi-strategy platforms

    Multi-strategy, multi-manager fund founded in 2008, investing across fixed income and macro, event and multi-asset relative value, equity long-short and capital markets, and quantitative trading.

    • Multi-strategy
    • Global macro
    • Event-driven
    • Relative value
    • Long-short equity
    • Quantitative research
  • Coatue Management

    Single-manager equity funds

    Investment manager investing in innovation through public and private markets.

    • Long-short equity
    • Technology
  • Egerton Capital

    Single-manager equity funds

    Independent investment management firm founded in 1994 and based in London, running long-only and long-short equity from a fundamental, research-intensive stock picking approach.

    • Long-short equity
  • Lone Pine Capital

    Single-manager equity funds

    Research-driven fundamental equity investment firm.

    • Long-short equity
    • Technology
    • Consumer
  • Marshall Wace

    Single-manager equity funds

    Alternative investment manager operating as a single team across its global offices.

    • Long-short equity
    • Systematic
    • Quantitative research
  • Pershing Square Capital Management

    Single-manager equity funds

    Investment adviser registered with the SEC and based in New York, whose filings are Schedule 13D and 13G positions in listed companies.

  • TCI Fund Management

    Single-manager equity funds

    Equity investment manager established in 2003, investing in high quality companies with sustainable competitive advantages.

    • Long-short equity
    • Activist
  • Viking Global Investors

    Single-manager equity funds

    Asset manager investing in public equity, private equity, and credit and structured capital.

    • Long-short equity
    • Healthcare
    • Technology
  • AQR Capital Management

    Systematic and quantitative funds

    Greenwich adviser whose funds are run on quantitative models, across momentum and defensive equity styles, alternative risk premia, arbitrage, equity market neutral and macro strategies.

    • Systematic
    • Quantitative research
    • Global macro
  • D. E. Shaw

    Systematic and quantitative funds

    Investment firm whose work spans investment management, technology development and risk management.

    • Systematic
    • Quantitative research
    • Multi-strategy
    • Credit
  • Man Group

    Systematic and quantitative funds

    Investment manager whose capabilities span alternatives, credit, equities, multi-asset and trend-following strategies.

    • Systematic
    • Quantitative research
    • Credit
    • Multi-strategy
  • Squarepoint Capital

    Systematic and quantitative funds

    Privately held investment firm led by its four founding partners across seventeen cities, independent since 2014 and dating back to 2000.

    • Systematic
    • Quantitative research
  • Two Sigma

    Systematic and quantitative funds

    Investment manager applying data science and technology to investing, with businesses in investment management, securities and real estate.

    • Systematic
    • Quantitative research
  • Brevan Howard

    Global macro and multi-asset

    Global macro manager founded in 2002, running macro and digital asset strategies for institutional investors across nine hubs.

    • Global macro
  • Bridgewater Associates

    Global macro and multi-asset

    Global macro firm founded in 1975, running a systematic process built on a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of how markets and economies work for institutional investors.

    • Global macro
    • Systematic
  • Caxton Associates

    Global macro and multi-asset

    Global macro hedge fund founded in 1983, blending macroeconomic, market, policy and company analysis.

    • Global macro
    • Commodities
  • Rokos Capital Management

    Global macro and multi-asset

    Global multi-asset investment fund manager.

  • Davidson Kempner Capital Management

    Credit and event-driven funds

    Diversified investment platform with roots in opportunistic and distressed investing, executing across asset classes, geographies and market cycles.

    • Event-driven
    • Distressed
    • Credit
  • Elliott Investment Management

    Credit and event-driven funds

    Multi-strategy manager whose strategies include equity-oriented investing, private equity and private credit, distressed securities, non-distressed debt, hedge and arbitrage, real-estate-related securities and commodities trading.

    • Distressed
    • Event-driven
    • Credit
  • King Street Capital Management

    Credit and event-driven funds

    Credit manager whose strategies are multi-strategy credit, a global drawdown strategy, tactical and opportunistic credit, real estate, and CLOs and CBOs.

    • Credit
    • Event-driven
  • Silver Point Capital

    Credit and event-driven funds

    Credit manager founded in 2002, investing through direct lending, capital solutions, credit market opportunities, special situations, liquid performing credit and real estate lending.

    • Credit

Every live hedge fund role

2 roles

Ranked by what needs a decision first: deadlines this month, then confirmed windows, then the newly posted, then the rest. No firm takes more than three rows in a run, so one bank’s twenty postings do not bury the others.

Only part of this market advertises. The large platforms publish real windows and appear below; single-manager funds recruit through networks and a written pitch, and the way in is the pitch rather than a posting. The map above is the whole field either way.

Firm categories and focus areas are maintained by L3VLUP editors against each firm’s own pages and filings, and were last reviewed on 24 September 2026. Role counts and locations come from each firm’s own careers feed at the last sync.

Action now

Deadlines in the next 7 days and windows opening in the next 14, from the same rows as the board below. Last verified 16 October 2026.

Nothing closes in the next 7 days.

The next stated deadlines, soonest first.

How this route works

Hedge funds used to hire almost exclusively from banks and consultancies. The large multi-strategy platforms changed that: Citadel, Millennium, Point72 and their peers now run structured internships and analyst academies that take people directly from university, publish real windows, and screen with the same early mechanics as banking.

The seats split into two very different markets. Platform programmes are large, structured and tracked here with real dates. Single-manager funds hire a handful of people a year, rarely advertise, and recruit through networks and stock pitches; for those, the pitch is the application, and the guide below matters more than any deadline.

What every route shares is the bar: a view, sized, with a stop. From the first conversation you are expected to talk about positions you would actually put on, which is why a tracked paper portfolio or a written pitch is the single most credible thing a student can bring.

Prepare for these seats

A deadline is only useful with an application ready behind it. The path, in the order the rounds come, and the real material these banks produce.

Read the managers, and the macro behind them

Activist letters in the managers’ own words, beside the rates research a markets interviewer expects you to know.

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Frequently asked questions

Do hedge funds hire straight from university?

The large multi-strategy platforms do, through structured internships and analyst academies with published windows, and those are the seats tracked here. Single-manager funds mostly still hire experienced analysts out of banking, equity research and each other, through networks rather than postings.

What does a hedge fund interview test?

A view. Expect market questions from the first round, a stock pitch or trade idea you can defend under pushback, and probability and sizing intuition. The platforms also run the standard early screens: online tests, video interviews and technical rounds, closer to a banking process than the industry’s reputation suggests.

What should I prepare first?

One pitch, properly. A single well-built stock pitch with a thesis, a variant perception, catalysts and risks answers most of what any fund interview asks, and it compounds: the second pitch is far easier than the first. Build it before the windows open, then keep it current.

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