AC
Associated Capital Group, Inc.
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If they found a useful job for the OP, then the world isn't really "better without them" at least in this case.
You can't complain that a company is useless and when it does something useful, just steal it and refuse to give it any credit. OP could have hung up as soon as they've heard the recruiter's name, but they didn't. Unless it was payback for getting previously screwed, it's messed up to steal a useful lead and go back to complaining that "AC sucks".

A hedhunting firm headquartered in Kosovo and London. Search for their name on this sub; they are very well known for extremely aggressive/annoying sales tactics, including figuring out what your WORK phone number is and calling it WHEN YOU ARE IN THE OFFICE. They once pestered me for several weeks after I tried ghosting them.
Also, they will sometimes take your resume/CV and blast it to every company for every position; this is a problem in general, but is a really big problem if you already work at a quant fund LMFAO.
Incidentally, I know a couple people who've actually found great jobs through AC, but many more that have horror stories.

If the issue was air Canada itself they’d be cutting a bunch of flights across the board. For what it’s worth I fly AC and never had issue. Only gripe is that the inflight food sucks.

I’m about to turn 34 and really have no incentive to buy a home yet. Rent is around $2000-$2500 for a nice two bedroom apartment in my area. I don’t have to worry about appliances or AC breaking and spending thousands to repair. Comes with a resort style pool, grills, and a nice gym.
Home prices are around $400k-$500k for anything decent here and with the current interest rates, I would be looking at around $3000-$3500 a month for mortgage, insurance, property taxes, and PMI. If not more. Not to mention home repairs when it comes to do that. Could I afford it, yeah probably, but I wouldn’t be happy about it.

The comparison was made about paying a house off early or not. I agree that renting is underrated for other financial reasons (fixed monthly costs without any 10K+ AC fixes, etc) and you can also plan around work where you can move near work and keep your commute low (while still having flexibility to move near a new job). You can break most renter leases without penalty if you're moving far enough away, too. So, you can jump at a high paying opportunity "on a whim" where a large physical asset that takes months to offload and comes with inspections might slow down your reaction.
That being said, when comparing the prospects of paying a house off early, if your goal is to maximize wealth, it can be a losing move to pay off a low interest loan when the market is doing so good. Last I checked, the inflation adjusted return of the S&P 500 is 10.1% over the last years (like a decade) and it's something like 8.1% inflation-adjusted annual return over its lifetime (including the great depression).
So, max paying a 2% loan to become debt free faster is sacrificing roughly 6-8% annual returns, if you had chosen to min-pay the loan and dump the excess into investments. The only pain point there is the future of the market is not guaranteed where future interest on a loan is guaranteed. So, if the market starts to shit hard for a year or two, those years or two might justify higher loan payments.
ANyway, that's the math and why a financially minded person would regret early repayment of such a low interest loan. If they understood basic math, then they wouldn't have max-payed it and it doesn't really matter about all the other investment options (e.g. not owning a home). Your angle of convo is openeing up too many things to compare.
Personally, I'd argue that generally home ownership is not the path to wealth. That very wealthy people purchase real estate for different reasons than us normies and that us normies are somewhat convinced of thinking like the richies. That a home purchase is rarely a "GREAT" investment. It offers autonomy in your home (e.g. you can paint the walls), but if you took your down payment on a house back in 2019 and invested in Nvidia stock instead, you'd buy your whole current house in cash. Stocks can be a GREAT investment. "Nobody" is 10x the valuation of their home in less than 10 years. Homes mostly improve in value and grow in a mostly stable fashion. Land is finite, etc. The wealthy buy land because, when you're rich as fuck you're not trying to double your money, you're really just wanting to stay with and beat inflation. Plus, once you get a couple million buckeroos, the next problem you have is protecting it from being stolen. Most investment accounts have insurance caps (e.g. FDIC, SIPC, etc). So, purchasing a physical asset ties your money into it and puts it under different insurances as well. SO, if you have 40 million bucks, it'd be hard to insure it all in a single investment account.
Anyway, while being debt free is a great goal, it might be foolish to exist a low interest loan early when you can rather invest that money. Thanks for coming to my shitty up ted talk.

I would avoid AC.
DM if you want to hear details.

We are getting an AC installed today
„Today i feel american“ 🇺🇸 🦅

For those about to read we salute 🫡 you. (AC/DC)

The AC is broken in my house
Currently 87 degrees

AC have an internal policy of 'speccing' profiles to unopen roles as a business development tool

This is one of the options where I would go with AC. If they did find you an option that you wouldn't have found otherwise, they deserve a commission. It's the one thing recruiters are specifically meant to add value in. Just make sure to protect yourself by sending them a resume that mentioned "for that company only" although tbh that could probably be bypassed... but I don't thing they are THAT bad.

Why AC has such a bad reputation? Just curious

This isn't true of every recruiting firm, but is true of AC lol

I thought that means the firm contracted with AC to find a candidate for commission? The finders fee that the recruiters earn is earned through contract, it’s not an open invitation for any firm/recruiter to submit to. Frequently these recruiters are working hand in hand with the hiring manager, so I’m confused as to why this would be a negative edge.

I wouldn't work with AC at all, first thing to consider is if the role is even real, or they are just fishing for info. If the role is real, surely the company works with other recruiters and just look around for somebody else. I regularly hear about the same roles from multiple recruiters, that field is even more saturated than quant. There's no upside in going with AC, even if the role is real, you don't know how they will handle the delicate process of the later stages, not to mention contract negotiations.

How would you approach this situation…
A recruitment firm with a very poor reputation (namely Alexander Chapman) have approached me regarding an open role they are working on. The company and role are certainly of interest and I’d be keen to apply, however I’m almost certain that being represented by AC is a negative edge in this industry and it is likely better not to be associated with them when submitting an application - by all means correct me if you think I’m wrong. Applying directly to the hiring company not the simplest option either as the open role is not listed on any of their usual channels.

Put it right in their lap, huh?
I have a fun story. Near me, there is a local automotive air conditioning specialist place that a buddy of mine manages. One day, a bunch of chineese guys showed up in suits and then a bunch in white haz mat style suits with a rented (brand new at the time) 2021 Chevy Suburban. These guys dismantled the entire vehicle and took every AC component with them back to China and then were back within a couple days to put the vehicle back together and return it to the rental company. They took all those components back to China to scan/measure/copy them to make the aftermarket replacement parts. So, where theres a will theres a way.

Kommt drauf an in was für einer Gegend man wohnt. Zuhause laufe ich 400m zur Ladesäule, auf Arbeit 100m oder 500m, bei meinen Schwiegereltern tatsächlich ganze 700m.
Auf allen Autobahnen, die ich nutze, gibt es gute Schnelllader.
Meine teuerste Lademöglichkeit ist 42 Cent pro kWh tagsüber und nachts 28 Cent bei Tesla, meine o.g. AC Lader kosten 33 Cent, nur der bei meinem Schwiegereltern kostet ca. 55 Cent.
Ich kann mich nicht beschweren. Meisten lade ich in der Nähe der Arbeit, da ist es kein Problem, die Lader sind Dichter als die Haltestellen. Ist mal keiner der 6 Anschlüsse frei, parken ich in der Mittagspause dort hin und nachmittags einmal um, ansonsten parken ich dort morgens und parke mittags kurz um.
Zu Hause oder bei meinen Schwiegereltern lade ich nur alle 2-4 Wochen, da kann ich die paar Minuten Fußweg 2x am Abend in Kauf nehmen, Bewegung schadet nicht und bin ja auch nie gezwungen, jetzt gerade bei Schneesturm oder so raus zu gehen. Das Laden dort ist ja meistens nur ein Bonus vor dem Wochenende, damit ich den Ladestand vom letzten Bürotag noch einmal erhöhen kann für die lange Fahrt am Wochenende.

Imagine being a europeener with no AC and no power for your heater lmfaoooooo

Essentially what he did with his casinos in AC.