What Is a Hedge Fund Manager? Here’s How to Be One

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Step 9: Pick your focus


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There are thousands of various investment opportunities out there, so you will have to come up with an investment strategy as well as figure out in what you would like to invest in as well as frequency of portfolio turnover, in order to have a crack at generating any alpha. Some hedge fund managers, for example, focus their attention on a specific industry like energy, or oil and gas, while others look at macroeconomic events or price arbitrage methods.

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