I work in a hedge fund; but every month, I spend half the month making presentations that senior members of my team have to give to top management. These presentations are mostly about general group strategy and not about the market or investments. These strategy decks are major time drain and I spend 10-12 hours daily doing turns on these decks and collecting feedback from the team. Is this a common experience ? I’m worried I will lose whatever technical skills I have.

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My sense is this is not usual. I'm at a MM shop and have never touched ppt but even my friends at SM funds don't seem to much non investment work.

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This seems quite weird to me, more of a middle-office or very junior front-office task. I’m not aware of anything of the sort happening at my fund (MM). I think your concern over skill atrophy and time-waste are appropriate.

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