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Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia:

The shifts in funding and investment styles will force hedge funds and asset managers to change their focus when hiring new personnel as the existing talent configurations cannot cater to their needs, said Carlos Mejia, Managing Partner of financial recruitment services firm Options Group.

Asset management talent to switch to hedge funds

In an article published at BusinessInsider, over the next three years, hedge funds and fund managers will have to accept the challenges particularly the "unlooked-for implications for the existing talent pools of both businesses."

Mejia wrote, "We can expect to see portfolio construction talent begin to move from asset-management firms to the top-performing hedge funds and banks along with other quant-equity and quant-macro researchers. Asset-management researchers with extensive portfolio construction experience will be indispensable to running high-capacity strategies. Researchers at asset-management firms have been comparatively underpaid relative to their hedge-fund counterparts even though performing similar work with comparable qualifications."

Mejia is predicting that hedge funds and execution platforms will invest in asset-management talent in response to the current challenges they are facing and would likely face.

Such move is a step into t......................

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