Our colleagues over at Fins.com have interviewed the anonymous hedge fund manager of “Diary of a very bad year: confessions of an anonymous hedge fund manager” fame to bring you some insights into the sector .

In the interview, HFM discusses the industry's recruitment processes, which he says are becoming increasingly generic. Today, he says, firms get flooded with CVs tailored specifically to the job and institutionalisation of the process means that unusual candidates are often overlooked. "Personally, I think funds need a diversity of experience. The best trade ideas are ones that arise from seeing the world differently from everybody else," he says.