What leverage do talent scouts have to getting good people in their HQ?
Tim Curro, Talent Scout Hedge Fund Value Holdings Sizes Up People As Well As Numbers Tim Curro, who runs hedge fund Value Holdings LP, and a couple of private partnerships from offices on New York City’s Lower Broadway, is an unassuming sort of guy. Brilliant, hard-working. And it all might have been wasted on a legal career if he hadn’t run into an inspiring personal finance prof while working his way through UC Davis. Instead, he detoured through Berkley to pick up an MBA only to find that no Wall Street firm showed the slightest interest in the valuation models for E&P companies he’d worked on all through grad school. Nothing daunted, Tim took the only job he was offered, as a corporate financial analyst, and started researching and writing an investment newsletter, on robotics, in his spare time. Which he circulated strictly to 200 investment types he figured might hire him. In 13 months, it worked. He was hired as a junior analyst in San Francisco and by the early ’90s he had move
