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by fn075425
April 20th, 2007, 9:54 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Largest single-strategy hedge funds&Largest hedge funds ranking
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Largest single-strategy hedge funds&Largest hedge funds ranking

<t>Largest single-strategy hedge fundsFunds reporting to HFR Database as of Dec. 11, 2006, ranked by assets, in millionsRank Fund Assets1 Renaissance Inst’l Equities $13,5232 Orbis Global Equity $9,1643 Highbridge Capital $7,9634 Bridgewater Pure Alpha I $5,7005 Renaissance Inst’l Equities B $5,3746...
by fn075425
February 28th, 2007, 9:45 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Need suggestions....
Replies: 6
Views: 78518

Need suggestions....

Thanks very much for your suggestions, that really means a lot to me.I think I will accept the offer from Bridgewater, as you know.
by fn075425
February 27th, 2007, 6:32 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Need suggestions....
Replies: 6
Views: 78518

Need suggestions....

<t>I just finished my PhD two months ago and got two offers, one from top 5 IB as dev and the other from one hedge fund as quant (the total asset managed is about $24billion)For my career path, I don't want to be a developer for the whole life.Could anyone give me some suggestions which offer to cho...
by fn075425
December 5th, 2006, 4:37 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Ants III
Replies: 8
Views: 88329

Ants III

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: iwanttobelieveI am afraid that's not ok rimae[. You are making a typical mistake.The result you give is in 'expectation', whereas I was asking for an 'almost sure' result.Generally speaking, in finance people are more interested in almost sure results.to make it simple,...
by fn075425
December 4th, 2006, 10:44 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Sum of dices problem
Replies: 8
Views: 89240

Sum of dices problem

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: mhughesGoogle search for "generating function". Your generating function is (x+x^2+x^3+x^4+x^5+x^6)^m. You want to find the coefficients of this generating coefficient, which can be done by decomposing it in the way I suggested (or some other way), and writing each as a...
by fn075425
December 4th, 2006, 10:00 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Ants III
Replies: 8
Views: 88329

Ants III

<t>i believe dividing into 25 sub-square is the best choice:first we divide to 25 parts, which means at least one of them contains 3 ants.then the size of this area is 0.04, and the size of the glass is pi/49so we can get the glass can cover at least one area with 3 ants.Hope this doesn't make any m...