Paul Wan

My hedge fund knowledge isn't secondhand — I've worked inside them, run money for them, allocated to them, and built one from the ground up. Most recently I was a senior analyst on a Japan market-neutral pod at Millennium, one of the world's premier multi-manager platforms, generating ideas under some of the tightest risk discipline in the business. Earlier, I ran my own book as a portfolio manager at Horizon. In between, I founded a hedge-fund allocation practice for family offices, conducting due diligence on 100+ managers globally — so I know precisely what allocators reward, and why most funds never scale. And as co-founder and SFC Type-9 Responsible Officer of a licensed asset manager, I built a firm's operations and compliance from zero. That 360-degree view is what I coach from. Breaking into a platform, surviving the pod-shop pressure cooker, making the analyst-to-PM leap, pitching allocators, or launching your own shop — I've done each of these myself, and I've mentored junior analysts through the early steps. The industry looks opaque from the outside; from the inside, it runs on patterns I've spent two decades learning, often the hard way. Tell me where you want to go, and I'll tell you honestly what it takes.