Research Associate Intern, Summer 2020
We are looking for Associate Interns to support our Research team. Our Research group is a collaborative, intellectually rigorous team responsible for coming up with investment ideas, codifying those ideas into signals, back-testing the signals, and producing return and risk forecasts based on the signals to drive trading decisions.
Responsibilities
We utilize a team approach to investment management. Our Associate Interns are immersed in our research effort, working side-by-side with members of the Research team. Our intern program combines theory, practice and technology and provides significant insights into quantitative investment management. Intern projects may involve applied math, finance, optimization theory and computer programming. Typical responsibilities include:
- Merging, structuring, and analyzing large amounts of data from various sources
- Assessing quality of historical panel data, diagnosing deficiencies and prescribing fixes
- Performing ad-hoc exploratory statistics and analysis on research data sets
- Writing and maintaining code that supports the investment research process
- Researching predictable patterns in asset returns, risks, and trading costs
Qualifications
- Enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree from a top educational institution in a technical field, such as applied mathematics, economics, engineering or computer science. Expected degree completion within a year of the internship
- Excellent academic record
- Strong analytical, quantitative, programming and problem solving skills
- Understanding of probability, statistics, linear regression, and time-series analysis
- Experience with a statistical computing environment or programming language such as STATA, R, MATLAB, or Python
- Experience analyzing large data sets
- Interest in financial markets
- Excellent communication skills
- High energy and strong work ethic
We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude, and initiative.