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125: Matthew Hoyle – Getting Hired—Who Trading Firms and Hedge Funds Are Seeking Out

Chat With Traders

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The Disappointment of Being a Trader

Duncan Valentine is the global head of marketing and capital raising for Capstone. He worked six years on the floor as an options market maker before becoming a headhunter, a recruiter. How did that come about? I've done quite well on the trading floor. We got paid rather a lot of money. After the floor closed he took some time off to decide what to do next. Another guy in the same building was actually a headhunter. So we went down to the pub one day which was conveniently located opposite the apartment building. And he told me he wanted to start his own business in an executive search and asked me if I wanted to help him do it. Why did I

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