<p>I'm currently a high school junior and I am interested in a career as a hedge fund manager. What would I have to do to get into the business (what colleges/ college programs/ degrees)? Also, how long does this process usually take, because I don't want to wait until I am 50 to be making bank haha.</p>
<p>I would be surprised if you even know what a hedge fund manager does.</p>
<p>I hate posts like this.</p>
<p>That’s akin to saying:</p>
<ul>
<li>I want to be an internet billionaire by the time I’m 25, how do I get there?</li>
<li>I want to be an international movie superstar earning $50m per picture, how do I get there?</li>
<li>I want to be an international rockstar earning $100m in record and touring revenue per year, how do I get there?</li>
</ul>
<p>Also, how long does it take, cause I don’t have any time, patience or talent to actually earn (deserve) any of it.</p>
<p>ha you guys are totally right! I don’t know what they do at all, I’m just interested in the money.</p>
<p>Start with learning how to manage the bank of a Monopoly game.</p>
<p>I second the person who says they hate posts like this.</p>
<p>This whole generation is all about “making bank” and expecting it to come easily as if they’re somehow entitled to some level of success. </p>
<p>OP I suggest you go to Amazon and buy books on monetary policy, debt derivatives, different forms of economic policy and maybe a few auto-biographies on hedge fund managers to get started.</p>
<p>…After reading through tens of thousands of pages of dry, complicated writing I suggest you go into the most advanced calculus or pre-calculus classes available to you, do very well of SATs and get into an ivy league school. If you want credibility as a young hedge fund manager a prestigious degree goes a very long way (regardless of the value it truly has).</p>
<p>Once you’re done with your 4-6 years in school you’ll then want to build up your trading history and have a proven track record. Maybe work for a large hedge fund to see the inner workings.</p>
<p>Then, as with most hedge fund managers, when you’re about half-way through your life you can start one up. Most hedge fund managers begin as quite wealthy and affluent men, you need to be in order to have the credibility for people to intrust millions in you.</p>
<p>BUT now you’ll really be rollin’ in the bank!!! </p>
<p>Given your initial post perhaps a career as a rapper may be more aligned with your aspirations. I hear it’s a pretty easy industry to make it in.</p>
<p>Well, my husband isn’t a hedge fund manager, but he works for one. He went to an Ivy, got his Phd in Electrical Engineering, worked, and started a couple of companies. Money is not his motivator.</p>
<p>I second the rapper suggestion. I heard Lil Wayne is hiring and he’ll take just about anybody!</p>
<p>I’m not black so the rapping thing wouldn’t really work out. I wish though.</p>
<p>Well if being a rapper isn’t an opposition being a hedge fund manager seems like the next plausible step.</p>
<p>fidelgato- It doesnt matter if you’re white. Nowadays they’ll take anybody I mean, have you heard the garbage that comes out of the radio these days?</p>
<p>Some reason i also want to be a hedge fund manager and im also a junior in highschool…</p>
<p>go to a good college and get good grades, not much else to worry about for now…</p>
<p>actually, thats a lie, there are a few other things you can do:</p>
<p>1) you can start investing if you have any money, if not then start with a paper portfolio</p>
<p>2) read snowball (the buffet bio) read the intelligent investor, read irrational exuberance, read the essays of warren buffet, read when genius failed, read the big short - these will give you the lay of the land (and if you manage to get through them all it means asset management may indeed be a potential career path for you)</p>
<p>r0flcopters fidelgato is a communist who wants to make money through a fringe of extreme capitalism.</p>
<p>i will exploit the capitalist system and crash the economy of this imperialist country. I will run off with trillions and then form my own rogue socialist nation. no brahmins allowed tho, sorry bhat. </p>
<p>but anyways, I’m taking economics right now and it’s not as interesting as I expected (perhaps because of the awful teacher), so maybe I’m not at all cut out for this sort of career. What is it like to be a hedge fund manager or investment banker (how many hours of work, how interesting is it, etc)?</p>
<p>Yeah, because it’s the professor’s fault. </p>
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