What analyzing 1,000+ funds taught me about the U.S. buy-side landscape
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Tomorrow at 12:00 PM ET, The Equity Analyst is publishing my learnings from analyzing 1,000+ U.S. hedge funds and mutual funds.
Below are the content we have published for our premium subscribers.
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You waste months chasing the wrong funds, emailing dead inboxes, and pitching PMs who were never going to say “yes.”
The buy-side doesn't post jobs. They hire quietly — through networks you’re not in yet. And every PM has an invisible filter for who they’ll even talk to.
By the time you figure it out, the role is gone… and so is your shot.
That’s why I built the U.S. Fund Primers — a database of 1,000+ hedge funds and long-onlys mapped by region, strategy, sector, and founder background.
For less than 0.1% of your first-year pay, you can skip months of trial and error—and get to a $300K+ buy-side seat faster.
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What you will get:
Fund Primers by Region (# of funds)
Connecticut (81)
New Jersey (16)
NY Long-only’s (76)
NY HF - Tiger lineage (39)
NY HF - Biotech / healthcare (26)
NY HF - Activist (38)
NY HF - Market-neutral SM (36)
NY HF - Event-driven / Special Sit (39)
NY HF - Value, Growth, Style-agnostic (119)
Boston and U.S. Northeast (VT) (73)
California (133)
Chicago (41) | U.S. Midwest (MN, WI, MI, OH, IA, MO, NE, KS) (55)
Florida (58) | U.S. Southeast (AL, AK, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN) (32)
U.S. Mid-Atlantic (DE, MD, PA, VA) (59)
Texas (58)
U.S. West (CO, OR, UT, WA) and Puerto Rico (40)
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Fund Primers by Sector Specialty
U.S. Biotech / healthcare (68)
U.S. TMT / Consumer (82)
U.S. Energy / Materials (29)
U.S. Financials (20)
More to come
Fund Primers by Investment Style
U.S. Activists (70)
U.S. Tiger Lineage (70)
U.S. Market-neutral SM (76)
U.S. Multi-managers
U.S. Event-driven (76)
Fund Primers by Key Person Alma Mater
Columbia (91)
University of Chicago (35)
Cornell (23)
Dartmouth (29)
Harvard (129)
MIT (18)
NYU (41)
UPenn / Wharton (107)
Princeton (35)
Stanford (61)
UVA (34)
Williams College (14)
Yale (46)
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Talk to you tomorrow,
Richard