L/S Equity Investment Analyst

Posted by the recruiter Dartmouth Partners on 29 June 2026, London and full time. A leading long/short hedge fund is looking to bring on an investment analyst to join its Global Equities team in London. The page says you can expect to work directly with various portfolio managers and to assist with due diligence, analysis and idea generation. Source

Token by token. 'L/S' is long/short: the fund buys the shares it thinks will rise and sells short the ones it thinks will fall, so a negative view is a tradeable idea rather than a reason to move on - which is the single biggest difference from a long-only fund or a bank's research desk, and it changes what a good interview pitch looks like. 'Equity' is the asset class, listed shares. 'Investment Analyst' is the research seat under the portfolio managers, not a trading seat: the posting's own words are due diligence, analysis and idea generation, with the position and the risk staying with the PM.

The phrase 'various portfolio managers' is doing quiet work. It says you would not sit under one PM with one book; you would supply several, which is how multi-manager funds are organised and which shapes the job - more names, faster turnarounds, and your work judged by several people with different styles. Ask how many PMs and whether you would be assigned a sector, because that is the practical difference between two versions of this seat.

The fund is not named, and the team is given only as 'Global Equities' - which at a long/short fund is a mandate rather than a team. The question that decides the job is whether you would cover a sector, a region, or work generalist across the PMs' books, and the page does not answer it. Ask the named consultant that before you send anything, along with the fund's name: a sector seat and a generalist seat build very different CVs over three years.

What is stated: the team is Global Equities, based in London, and the analyst works directly with various portfolio managers on due diligence, analysis and idea generation. Source

Dartmouth Partners is the recruiter publishing the page, not the employer - the employer is described only as a leading long/short hedge fund. The role is filed under the agency's Equities and Multi-Asset team, with a single consultant named as the contact and a direct email address given. Source

18 people have held London roles at Dartmouth Partners since 2018 - the agency's own recruiters. The hedge fund behind this advert is anonymous, so there is no data on it at all.

One line here is new enough to act on: experience with, or strong familiarity in using, AI-powered tools is listed as preferred on a hedge fund analyst specification. That is a stated, checkable preference rather than a vague nod, and it is unusual on a buy-side research row. If you are heading for this kind of seat, the useful version is specific rather than general - which tools, on which part of the research process, and what it changed about your output. That is a two-minute answer you can actually build, and most candidates will not have one.

No deadline is stated and the row has been live since 29 June 2026, over two months. Agency searches close when the client hires, so it is either near the end or genuinely hard to fill - either way there is nothing to wait for, and the consultant is the gate rather than a form.

Candidates should have: one or more years' experience in investment banking, private equity, long-only, long/short equity investing or similar; a top-tier academic background; strong financial modelling and communication skills; and, preferred, experience with or strong familiarity in using AI-powered tools. The role is London and full time. No degree subject, graduation window or right-to-work line appears on the page. Source

Read the experience line precisely, because it is looser than most and that is the interesting part. 'One or more years' is a low bar by hedge fund standards, and 'or similar' plus a list that runs from banking through private equity to long-only means the fund is not insisting on prior hedge fund time. So the door is wider than the usual buy-side row - but it is still a door with a year of full-time work behind it, and a finalist or a new graduate does not clear it. The shortest honest route is one to two years in banking or long-only research first.

'A top-tier academic background' is the unwritten screen that actually thins the CV pile here, and it is the one requirement that is already decided by the time you read this. Nothing on the page says what it means, which is a reason to ask rather than to assume the worst - but it is also a reason, if you are still at university, to take the grade seriously now: buy-side rows say this and banking rows usually do not.