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For Employers & Partner Firms

Hire people who have
actually done the work.

In a market saturated with credentials and AI-generated applications, TrendUp gives you something genuinely rare: candidates who have been trained by active fund managers, assessed on real investment tasks, and ranked against their peers. Your next analyst is already in our pipeline.

Get in Touch How It Works
91%
Alumni Working in FinanceWithin 6 months of graduation
100%
SRP Placement RateEvery SRP participant secures a role
$0
Recruiter FeesDirect access to vetted talent, no middlemen
The Hiring Problem

Hiring in finance has never been harder to get right.

Every analyst role attracts hundreds of applications. CVs look better than ever, cover letters are polished, and credentials are everywhere. But fewer of those candidates can actually do the job on day one.

The problem is signal. When everything looks the same on paper, selecting for genuine capability becomes expensive, slow, and unreliable. You interview more people, onboard more cautiously, and spend months finding out whether someone was as good as they looked.

TrendUp exists to solve the signal problem. Our candidates have been trained, tested, and ranked on real investment tasks by active hedge fund professionals. Their performance record is the reference.

Finance professional
Why TrendUp

A different kind of talent pool.

Every candidate in the TrendUp pipeline has been put through a rigorous, active-fund-led training and assessment process. Here is what that means for you.

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Performance-Ranked

Candidates are tracked and ranked across all three levels of the L-Program on real investment tasks. You know exactly where in the cohort they finished. No guesswork.

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Trained by Fund Managers

The curriculum is built and delivered by active hedge fund professionals, not professors. Derivatives, futures, fund strategy, risk management. What the job actually requires.

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CFOA Certified

Top candidates hold the Certified Futures and Options Analyst credential, issued by ICFDT. A professional standard recognized by funds, family offices, and investment companies.

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Pre-Vetted

TrendUp operates selective admissions. Only driven, capable individuals are accepted into the program in the first place. The vetting starts before the training does.

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Psychologically Assessed

SRP candidates receive a professional investor personality assessment from a fund-specialist psychologist. You get insight into how they think, handle risk, and perform under pressure.

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No Recruiter Fees

Direct access to our talent pool. No headhunter commissions, no agency fees. You pay to hire, not to search. And because candidates are pre-vetted, time-to-hire is significantly shorter.

Our Candidates

Diverse backgrounds. Serious training.

TrendUp attracts talent from a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds. What they share is ambition, rigor, and the CFOA credential to back it up.

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Finance Graduates

University graduates in finance, economics, or business who want to go beyond the classroom. They have the theory; TrendUp gives them the professional application and the credential.

CFOA  ·  Derivatives  ·  Portfolio Strategy
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Career Pivoters

Professionals from adjacent fields — engineering, law, technology, operations — who bring structured thinking and domain expertise alongside investment training.

Cross-Functional  ·  Analytical  ·  CFOA
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International Talent

Candidates from the US, UK, UAE, Switzerland, India, Hong Kong, and beyond. The CFOA credential and TrendUp training are globally recognized, making this talent immediately deployable.

Global  ·  Multilingual  ·  Remote-Ready
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High Performers

SRP-eligible candidates finished in the top quarter to top third of their cohort. They have already proven themselves in a competitive environment. These are not average applicants.

Top Cohort  ·  SRP Eligible  ·  Buy-Side Ready
How It Works

From interest to hire, in four steps.

Getting access to TrendUp talent is straightforward. Tell us what you need, and we will match you with candidates who fit.

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Tell Us What You Need

Fill in the form below with your firm type, role requirements, and what you are looking for in a candidate.

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We Match You

We surface candidates from our vetted pool who fit your criteria, including performance rank, specialization, and personality profile where available.

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You Interview

Meet the candidates directly. No agency in the middle. You have access to their training history, CFOA status, and cohort performance.

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You Hire

Make your offer directly. Zero recruiter fees. TrendUp candidates typically join in investment analyst, trader, or associate roles.

Investor Personality Index

Know who you are hiring before you hire them.

The IPI is a professional-grade psychological assessment specifically designed for traders and investors. Beyond skills and credentials, it gives you a window into how a candidate thinks, decides, and performs under pressure.

Used by TrendUp partner firms for both hiring decisions and team development, the IPI surfaces insights that no interview can.

Learn About the IPI
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Investment Personality Profile

Understand a candidate's natural investment style, risk appetite, and decision-making under uncertainty.

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Strengths and Blind Spots

Every investor has areas where their psychology helps them and areas where it can work against them. The IPI surfaces both.

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Team Fit

Understand how a candidate will integrate with your existing team dynamic, culture, and investment approach.

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Human-Reviewed

Every IPI report is reviewed by finance professionals, not just generated by an algorithm. You get interpretation, not just data.

Finance professional

Are you a future TrendUp candidate?

This page is also for you.

For Candidates

Your performance record speaks louder than your resume.

One of the most powerful things about the TrendUp program is that it puts you in front of real investment firms, evaluated on what you can actually do, not just what you have written on a CV.

When you complete the L-Program and qualify for the SRP, you are not just getting training. You are joining a pipeline that partner firms actively recruit from, because they have already seen your work.

Earn the CFOA credential — the only derivatives certification issued by ICFDT, recognized by funds and investment firms worldwide.
Qualify for an SRP internship — a real 10-week analyst or trader role at a partner hedge fund, family office, or private investment firm.
Enter the employer pipeline — firms on this page actively recruit TrendUp graduates. Your cohort ranking and CFOA status are part of your profile.
No cold applications — TrendUp introductions carry weight because partner firms trust our selection process.
Apply to the L-Program
Work With Us

Ready to access our talent pool?

Tell us about your firm and what you are looking for. We will be in touch to discuss how TrendUp can support your hiring needs — at no recruitment fee.

We work with hedge funds, family offices, proprietary trading firms, venture capital, private equity, investment banks, and wealth management firms.

🌐 Corporate training needs? Visit trendupfinance.com
❓ General questions? Visit our FAQ page

We typically respond within 1 business day.

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