Recruitment and Placement for Alternative Asset Management
Over 25 years of experience successfully completing
searches for the investment industry
WHO WE ARE
AlphaSearch Advantage
Our asset management recruiting experience spans over 25 years and more than a thousand placements of tenured staff, future leaders, and C-level executives. Client searches are led by resourceful, seasoned professionals with a track record of success in highly competitive markets.
Extensive market intelligence within alternative asset management gives us a strategic advantage to efficiently identify, recruit and place top performers who quickly impact the bottom line. Our experience enables us to highlight the nuances and define the distinctive requirements of each search. We then manage a rigorous talent acquisition process of research, due diligence and candidate selection that is informed by deep industry relationships. The result is a proprietary pool of the strongest candidates, the best fit, the longest tenure, and maximum performance.
Alpha Search specializes in human capital solutions for the alternative asset management industry. We have long-standing relationships with the most talented individual players and premier organizations in the industry.
Our functional expertise is in investment professionals, marketing and distribution, risk management, corporate strategy, and trading. Our talent pool is drawn from across the globe, with a focus on New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and internationally, UK, Switzerland, and Greater China. We service clients exclusively in alternative asset management strategies, such as private equity, real estate, hedge funds, fund of funds, liquid alts, CTAs, managed futures, real assets, and structured products.
We understand the competitive dynamics of the alternative investment industry. It’s lean, sophisticated, efficient and exceptionally nimble. We have worked with fund managers to address competitive needs quickly, to better institutionalize, diversify and expand markets, strategies and investor coverage.
Our market knowledge comes from constant contact with industry leaders and top performers across a broad spectrum of investment firms, strategies and geographies. Detailed, granular industry mapping and reverse-engineering of the organizational structures of leading fund managers is on-going and comprehensive. We bring this intelligence to bear in every single search project.
” I have worked with and known Bob Olman for a number of years and he is the best executive search operator in the hedge fund area that I have ever seen. I recommend Bob strongly and without any reservations.”
“Alpha Search brought in impressive candidates; it was clear Bob Olman understood the role and the direction we wanted to go. Very helpful throughout the whole process, a very useful service. We are satisfied customers.”
“MAI is able to attract top personnel when these candidates learn that we’ve retained Alpha Search to fill an opening; it shows the client is serious about finding the right fit and the right level of expertise. I found the service level coming out of a Big 4 Search Firm and Alpha Search is the same. Alpha Search will zero in on a select handful of candidates, will be very selective and will get the search done. They are really experts within the hedge fund world, in finding niche specialists.”
“[Alpha Search] is an executive search firm which can consistently deliver the best candidates appropriate to specific job openings in a time-critical manner with confidence and industry expertise. Alpha Search has the ability to recruit among candidates who are not necessarily looking for new employment, but are open to such an opportunity once approached.”
“I write this from the vantage point of ten years’ experience in FICC at Goldman Sachs & Co… When I had to hire someone to work for me, Bob Olman was my first call. Bob takes the time to really understand what the employer needs as well as what the candidates want. His honest, sincere, no-nonsense, no-hype way of dealing with people is extremely attractive to intelligent and talented individuals who are used to being sold, cajoled and entreated to join up with one company or another. Bob has the ability to attract intelligent professionals.”
Mr. Olman has owned and operated capital markets search firms since 1988. Prior to launching Alpha Search Advisory Partners, Bob owned and operated COR Management Services, an executive search and contract consulting firm with offices in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. COR specialized in structured finance, trading, quantitative analysis, financial engineering, and information technology across sell-side firms. Representative clients included Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Soros Fund Management, Tudor Investment and Commodities Corp.
A prominent industry expert, Bob is a regular editorial contributor to on-line media such as Hedge Fund Intelligence, HedgeFund.net, Hedge Fund Digest Blog, FIN Alternatives, Ladders.com, Forbes Online, MSNBC, Marketsmedia.com, Bloomberg News, Dow Jones MarketWatch and Reuters Online. His insight is sought after and frequently quoted in career advisory books and institutional investment publications including: Pensions & Investments, Absolute Return Magazine, Alpha Magazine, HFM Week, Hedge Fund Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Magazine, Investment Dealers Digest, and Derivatives Week. He has appeared on Fox Business News and CNBC. Mr. Olman hosts financial career and employment forums for graduates and alumni of Columbia, Baruch, and New York University.
Mr. Olman attended SUNY Binghamton and Oneonta and holds degrees in Political Science, English, and Philosophy. He is active in humanitarian organizations, with an emphasis on children’s charities, cancer research, and assistance for cancer survivors and their families. Bob is a counselor and advisor to Hire Heroes USA, a non-profit organization that helps veterans transition from the military to careers in the private sector. Mr. Olman spends his leisure time writing fiction, practicing Pencak Silat and spirituality. He lives in Long Island, New York with his family.
We are proud of our contributions to charitable causes in our community and across the globe. Mr. Olman supports many humanitarian causes, with emphasis on children and cancer treatment. A portion of all fees from services is allocated among the organizations he helps support.
American Friends of Reut Institute
Cancer Center for Kids
Capital for Kids
Chabad
Chai Lifeline
Children’s Foundation For
Equine Assisted Therapy
Good Samaritan Ministry
Hire Heroes USA
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Michael J. Fox Foundation
North Shore Hebrew Academy
Race For The Cure
Solomon Schechter Day School
Special Olympics NY-Hudson Valley Region
St. Bernard’s School
The SASS Foundation for Medical Research
- Placed 34 professionals to build capital markets team
- Placed 21 professionals to establish a prominent fixed income fund manager
- Introduced a team of 20 to build out global equity derivatives trading and equity arbitrage infrastructure
- Staffed initial marketing and distribution team build-outs for multiple alternative asset managers
CTA, Systematic Futures Trading
$4bn AUM
Portfolio Manager
Global Macro, Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund
$12bn AUM
Team Construct
ABS/Structured Credit IP team
$1bn Allocated
Chief Risk Officer
Multi-Asset Class Platform
Head of Business Development
Diversified Credit Manager
$20bn AUM
Senior Analyst, Mining and Materials
Private Equity Manager
$20bn AUM
Alternative Product Suite
$220bn AUM Asset Manager
Senior Institutional Marketer
Distressed & Special Situations Asset Manager
$3bn AUM Public/Private
Global Head of Marketing
CTA, Systematic Futures Trading
$4bn AUM
Product Manager
Credit/ABS Hedge Fund
$2bn AUM
Sector Head, TMT
Fundamental Large-Cap Equity Hedge Fund
$12bn AUM
Head of Business Development
ILS Asset Manager
$2bn AUM
WHAT WE DO
OPPORTUNITIES
Email your resume in confidence for any of the referenced positions. (word preferred)
Interns gain exposure to all three industries in which Alpha Search is active:
– Executive search & human capital advisory for alternative asset managers, esp. hedge funds, CTAs and PE ( >$5Tn industry worldwide).
Interns will research alternative investments, the asset management industry across all asset classes, investment strategies and geographies.
– Outsourcing, specifically business & recruitment process outsourcing (BPO/RPO) across financial services ($130bn in 2019).
Interns will take part in growing the business, execute deep dive research of competitive landscape, and develop messaging, content, and a digital marketing platform.
– Real estate investment and development in the Delaware Water Gap area of Sullivan County, NY.
Interns will Source & value properties, assist in development plans, interface with law firms, regulatory bodies, lenders and service providers, and research distressed investing in foreclosures, tax auctions and loan purchasing (NPLs).
Requirements
– Superior verbal and written communication skills.
– Internet research & business computing proficiency (Word, Outlook PowerPoint & Excel).
– Attention to detail, structured and organized.
– Able to work independently and as a member of a team.
– Previous work experience
Please email your resume in confidence with Reference “Internship” in the subject line.
IN THE NEWS
SAC Sees Traders Bolt as
Firm’s Troubles Mount
CNBC
SAC employee options.
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Here’s The Stunningly Simple Reason Why Hedge Fund Hiring Focuses So Much On Personality
Business Insider
Huge hedge funds.
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Wells Fargo
Buys Fund Of Hedge Funds
Value Walk
Bob Olman talks about consolidation among fund of funds in the light of Wells Fargo acquiring a stake in Rock Creek.
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Hedge Fund Hiring Focuses on Personality
Business Insider
Views on hedge fund hiring – this time, focusing on the importance of culture.
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Hedge Fund Job Seekers Choose Stability Over Pay
Opalesque
Bob Olman explains that financial professionals are willing to make lateral moves or less money if it means a steady career trajectory.
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Picky Hedge Funds Scour Campuses for Graduates
eFinancial Careers
Bob Olman quoted regarding Hedge Funds’ popularity with Graduate students.
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Hedge Funds Stock up Jobs as Money Flows in
Fins Finance
Robert Olman is quoted in this article about hedge funds’ increased interest in hiring investment professionals this year.
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Managers buying, selling and hiring after the crisis
Pensions & Investments