Project Intern, Quantitative Strategy and Performance Analytics (Quantitative Strategy) (10769)
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Department/Section: Quantitative Strategy and Performance Analytics (Quantitative Strategy) Position: Project Intern, Quantitative Strategy and Performance Analytics (Quantitative Strategy) Period: January 2024 to December 2024 (min. Full-Time 6 Months OR Part-Time 4 Days/Week for 6 Months) Overview of the Team Our Portfolio Strategy & Risk Group (PSRG) actively guides the firm's investment activities and drives sustainable returns, while protecting the portfolio and the institution. The group actively explores overlay and alternative portfolio strategies to enhance our portfolio returns. The Quantitative Strategy team is a part of PSRG and supports its activities through 3 key areas: (1) Building a recurring income portfolio, (2) Quantamental investing to complement the firm's fundamental bottom-up investing; (3) Alpha generation and portfolio construction, where the team looks at several strategies to enhance risk-adjusted portfolio returns. Roles & Responsibilities The intern will assist the team in building up the infrastructure for quantitative analysis and support ongoing research activities. Specific responsibilities can include:
- Automate signal generation and tracking of trading ideas in the research phase. Work with team to deploy previously tracked signals to live portfolio
- Assist with building infrastructure to maintain quantitatively managed portfolio
- Build dashboards to monitor market and portfolio performance
- Assist with signal research activities leveraging traditional and alternative data sources
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field (such as Financial Engineering or quantitative subjects like statistics, math, hard sciences with a demonstrated interest in Finance)
- Prior work experience in finance (sell-side or buy-side) or quantitative investing at buy-side firm will be advantageous
- Programming (python preferred) and statistics skillsets are required
- Please state your availability clearly in your resume/CV (Start date, End date)
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