Role OverviewDevelop and improve quantitative investment strategies in financial markets within the Strategic Alpha Research team (SAR). Support all equity and fixed income strategies from alpha generation through to trade execution and implementation. Conduct research on various implementation aspects of investment strategies such as trading cost models, risk models, optimization, and portfolio construction.
What You Will Do
Identify new investment ideas or innovative data sources, gather and refine complex data for modeling, code and perform statistical analysis to build and refine models, and interpret, present, and implement the results.
Why It Might Be a Fit
Strong quantitative skills, experience in utilizing econometrics or statistics in empirical research, and ability to communicate complex ideas clearly are required. Prior experience in the investment field, especially in credit markets, is a plus but not required.
Requirements
- Passion in investment research with strong intuition and the ability to think-out-of-the-box
- Strong record of original research and demonstrated problem solving ability
- Excellent quantitative skills from training in econometrics or statistics, and extensive experience in utilizing those skills in empirical research
- Strong programming skills analyzing large and complex data with statistical tools (Python preferred)
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly
Benefits
- Competitive holiday entitlements
- Pension/401k
- Life and long-term disability coverage
- Group sick pay
- Enhanced parental leave and long-service leave
- Private medical coverage
- Discounted gym membership options
- Pet insurance
- Two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering
- Discretionary bonus
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