Anyone who works at Pershing Square
Does anyone on here work at Pershing Square with Bill Ackman and if so what are the hours, WLB, and culture like?
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Does anyone on here play in the NBA / NFL and if so what are the hours, WLB, and culture like?
Funny, but I’m genuinely interested in hearing more about what the company is like on the inside
Mate, like 10 people work on the investment team. None of them are on WSO, they're out on their yachts.
NBA/NFL: WLB - bad. Culture - bad. Money - good.
Nobody at Pershing square is on WSO
Why is that you think
Same reason why no one in the NBA is on r/basketball or Basketball Oasis
The moment you asked this second question moved your chance of getting a job at Pershing from 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% to 0%
Lmao seriously?
lol I don't agree... Not sure why so many people think that an analyst role at a Pershing / Baupost / Greenlight type shop is necessarily that desirable. yes, the principals of those funds are raking in $10's of millions per year (even when they underperform) but if anything they can use their cache to underpay their analysts. That's not to say I don't think those analysts are making good money, I just don't think working for a superstar PM is really the pinnacle of success on wall street as it comes with some downsides as well.
Pershing doesn’t underpay it’s analysts
Grouping pershing with greenlight is like grouping the new york yankees with a D2 college baseball team. AUM per IP at pershing is higher than Greenlight's total AUM.
i think people should find buyside public research seats as attractive given the day to day intellectual rigor and engagement. yes, it’s true you might work less than you would in IB or PE, depending on the shop, but you’re 100% on during the entire 40-60 hr or whatever you do in a week. all things considered in the world, they’re good spots to be in… but of course, leave it to the shallow folks out there to only chase them for prestige.
It is I - Bill Zack man on
Why anyone cares or wants to work there is beyond me. No shorting or actual alpha generation, just beta riding. Way more impressed with someone who is at citadel or p72 where you actually pick stocks on a differentiated view. Also, where do PS guys go afterwards? Not really a marketable skill set to invest in 1 business a year
Yeah but they get paid very well and have almost no turnover so who cares about marketable skills
I don’t think people look at going to Pershing as a path to build a skill set to go elsewhere. The bet you make is that you can stick around long enough to clip enough $$$ to not need to go anywhere else after.
You can never get a SM HF post without the pod bois jumping in. Yeah your $300-500k job is so much better than getting paid millions to “ride beta”
Honestly you have a better shot at tweeting at Ackman vs. getting one of his 7 analysts to anonymously post of WSO
Pershing Square analyst here, AMA.
What’s the WLB life and is the work modeling centered? Or mostly just market research?
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There's a rumor that Bill can now do 12 pullups, is that true?
Still stuck at 8 last time I saw him doing some in the office
Is bill still a shit cyclist? Does he keep getting dropped by Loeb on group rides?
Bill is busy selling tbills not sure he needs an analyst anymore.
Imagine you did the golden path got crushed two years in banking no sleep, 2-3 years more at a MF. All excited about activism investing show up and Ackman says “okay we going to sell the 30 year that is all.”
Heard from someone that he has had that trade on for a while and like his past outbursts is just looking for liquidity on his trades, but who knows. Seems improbable that would need liquidity on these kind of options but who knows!
Could literally make a "Pershing Square is paradise" thread. As the newly formed associate role will now be calling around desks on the street to offload Bill's massive tbill position. Would not shock if that is the only trade he put on this year truly.
And not like Ackman will hire someone from Brevan or the like for future macro trades. Pershing Square is a multi-strat with Bill as every PM.
I checked out most of the investment teams background on linkedin and they literally all came from HYPSW -> GS (with a couple CVP/EVR) -> MF PE
Sure, send me a DM OP.
Bill Ackman here OP. Shoot me a DM I’ll answer all of your questions.
Nobody gives a rat's fuck how much some stupid overworked analyst at Pershing Square makes.
Why are there some many guys from Ivey at Pershing?
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