Many of the 7,500 people who voted in this year's Ideal Employer survey selected hedge funds as their preferred places to work. They don’t map one-to-one, but a lot of the hedge funds that were voted first or second as Ideal Employers by respondents to our survey are also some of the biggest hedge funds by assets under management (AUM). That shouldn’t be surprising. The biggest hedge funds are some of the best known. And when AUM are combined with leverage and strong returns, they enable the funds managing them to invest more in technology and to generate strong profits.
