A Harvard undergrad explains how she extended her internship with $58 billion Two Sigma in lieu of spending the semester taking virtual classes
Bonuses play an outsized role in overall comp at most funds, especially in investment roles, but base salaries are still substantial and figure prominently especially at the more junior levels, where employees typically have a less direct impact on overall returns. Some of the brightest minds in systematic trading and quantitative research were born and educated outside the US, and some funds stock their US rosters with foreign labor. When US companies file paperwork for visas on behalf of current or prospective foreign workers, they're required to say how much base compensation the workers are offered.
_youngbroker the quants lf
Should get paid nothing. No secret sauce.
thanks for this news