9 Investment Funds Every NYU Finance Kid Lowkey Namedrops

Diego Marchetti

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Ngl between econ psets and arguing about the best bodega slice in Bushwick, I've still got time to stalk 13Fs and pretend I know what I'm doing on a Bloomberg terminal I don't own yet. These are the funds that live rent-free in every finance bro's group chat — the ones you name-drop at a recruiting coffee chat to sound like you actually read the news. No cap, half of NYC's econ majors dream about a desk at one of these.

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9 Investment Funds Every NYU Finance Kid Lowkey Namedrops — 6 items
Name	Comment	Fund	Asset Class	Known For
1BlackRock	the dollar slice of asset managers ngl — everywhere, reliable, and somehow still the move. Larry Fink is basically the Joe's Pizza of finance	BlackRock	Asset Management / ETFs	World's largest asset manager, iShares ETF empire
2Blackstone	lowkey the loaded slice with everything on it — real estate, credit, PE, they just keep stacking toppings and it still slaps	Blackstone	Private Equity / Alternatives	Biggest alternative asset manager, real estate and PE megadeals
3KKR	the OGs who basically invented the LBO playbook, ngl studying their old deals for my valuation class was actually kinda fire	KKR	Private Equity	Leveraged buyout pioneer, huge infrastructure and PE book
5Millennium Management	the multi-strat pod shop everyone name drops at recruiting events, ngl the risk management is tighter than my meal plan budget	Millennium Management	Hedge Fund – Multi-Strategy	Pod-shop model with dozens of independent trading teams
6Two Sigma Investments	basically a tech company that trades, if you can code better than you can pset you're already ahead ykwim	Two Sigma Investments	Hedge Fund – Quant	Data-science-driven systematic trading models
7D.E. Shaw & Co	the vintage quant shop, been cooking since before I was born and still ate up the leaderboard, respect	D.E. Shaw & Co	Hedge Fund – Quant / Multi-Strategy	One of the original quant shops, engineer-heavy culture