hedge fund – Karthik Shashidhar

personal, work bike trip, corporate workshops, cricket matches, half my time, hard drive, hawk, hedge fund, incoming lead, interesting stuff, interwebs, lone wolf, networking purposes, predecessor, prospective client, senior managers, six months, statistical arbitrage, stock market data, sustainability, two thirds

Career Progression

July 23, 2012

I’m close to two thirds my way into my “Project Thirty”. Parts of it aren’t going so well. I’ve hardly traveled, for one, save a bike trip across Rajasthan. My to-be-read pile is as tall as it used to be, and my DVR hard drive is almost full with movies that I’ve wanted to watch,…

business, personal, work arbitrage, attitude, bac, existence, experiences, full time, hedge fund, high quality, india, labour cost, large portion, masters, morning person, offshoring, productivity, searching for a job, second job, skilled work, time jobs, waste of time

Offshored

December 12, 2011

Two of the four full-time jobs that I’ve done have been “offshored”. They’ve both involved working for the Bangalore office of American firms, with both jobs having been described as being “front end” and “high quality”, while in both cases it became clear in the course of time that it was anything but front end,…

arbit, business, work business casual dress, business days, casual dress policy, different companies, dress code, dress codes, founders, gurgaon, hedge fund, inspirational quotes, investment banks, lehman brothers, necktie, neckties, normalization, paraphrase, physical books, rise and fall, roger lowenstein, ubs

The Necktie Index

January 11, 2011

I’m currently reading Roger Lowenstein’s When Genius Failed – about the rise and fall of the hedge fund LTCM. So when LTCM was in trouble, the employees there came up with a measure called the “necktie index”. I’m not able to find a good link to it, and unfortunately physical books don’t offer an efficient…