Associate recruitment

Ross Farrar is an Institutional Investment Management firm focused on developing and implementing risk management strategies and yield enhancement strategies across a wide range of asset classes. Ross Farrar combines significant derivatives industry expertise with recognized world-class quantitative skills to develop, test and implement customized strategies to meet the individualized needs of our clients.  We are located in Darien, Connecticut, about an hour outside of New York City.

We currently have an opportunity for an Associate who will play an active role in supporting senior management in developing strategies for our clients. The Associate will be required to perform a significant amount of market and financial analysis and will be responsible for creating PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and phone etiquette as part of his/her responsibilities will be to assist our head traders by being on the phone and communicating real time price information.  In addition, the Associate will take an active role in daily operations such as maintaining deal files, confirming trades and settlement instructions, and sending out and responding to margin calls.

The Associate will have the opportunity to be integrally involved in all aspects of the business and work closely with our top professionals. Steve Ross is world-renowned in finance academia and industry. Steve is best known as the inventor of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and the Theory of Agency, and as the co-discoverer of risk-neutral pricing and the binomial model for pricing derivatives. Andrew Jeffrey, a former Professor at the Yale School of Management, is a financial mathematician who specializes in derivative security valuation, interest rates and risk management, and has expertise in statistical estimation and the numerical execution of complex financial models. Rick Antle, Professor of Accounting at the Yale School of Management, has expertise in the areas of managerial compensation and performance evaluation, employee stock options, corporate governance issues and accounting rules for revenue recognition.

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