Super-smart intern joins UK hedge fund’s Middle East sales department; males of the Finance Species lose their minds
Super-smart intern joins UK hedge fund’s Middle East sales department; males of the Finance Species lose their minds. UK finance Twitter is agog that a former Goldman summer intern turned “Youtube sensation” is turning her back on internet fame to join Winton Capital Management as an analyst for the hard-core fund’s head of Middle East business development and investor solutions. Jess Greenberg, who studied stats, econ and finance at University College of London, “has uploaded 60 videos to YouTube in total, and she has a formula: she sits in a bedroom, in front of a wardrobe, wears a cleavage-displaying top, plays the guitar and sings to the camera.” Greenberg seems not to have uploaded anything new since joining Winton, “one of the UK’s most successful systemic macro hedge funds. Historically, it preferred to hire data scientists with PhDs ‘including extragalactic astrophysicists, computer scientists and climatologists,’ but the company now runs an analyst programme and hires graduates.” Everyone from eFinancialCareers to ZeroHedge has lost their mind over the story. Dealbreaker at least had the decency to check out Greenberg’s LinkedIn profile, which makes clear she’s also done internships at Barclays, Morgan Stanley, BAML and JPMorgan.
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