This Goldman Sachs team in London looks perfect for hedge fund jobs
Now that trading jobs in banks are more about market making and less about proprietary trading, it's not as easy as it used to be to move from a bank to a hedge fund. But it still happens, especially if you work for Goldman Sachs' emerging markets equities team in London.
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Goldman Sachs isn't commenting, but sources at the firm point to the many and varied members of the emerging markets equities team who've gone to funds in the recent past.
They include Ediz Karahasanoglu, the former head of EMEA emerging markets equities trading, whose exit we reported last week and who's understood to have gone to LMR. They also include Declan Browell, an associate on the team who left for Millennium in Dubai in March.
Insiders on the team say there have been many other departures over a longer time horizon. Executive director Richard Heath went to Verition in 2021. Trader Jenagan Ragunathan went to Segantii (before also moving to Verition) in 2022. London partner Riccardo Riboldi went to Schonfeld in 2023. Last June, Gavan Deol left to become an associate portfolio manager at Millennium. And Samia Zitouni left in 2024 for another fund, although we don't know which one.
What makes Goldman's London EM team so appealing to hedge funds? Insiders can't say for sure, but claim that it stands out for the volume of successful exits. "It's something in the water," suggests one. "Once someone leaves for a big fund, everyone else gets motivated to do the same thing."
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