Head of Quantitative Research & Trading – Statistical Arbitrage Fund – New York recruitment

Criteria:

This position is suitable for an established portfolio manager with 5-10 years experience trading quant equity strategies. You should have a current track record and have the ability to show your track record dating back for the last few years.

We are looking for a quant trader with a strategy that generates a return of 7-20% per year and the Sharpe should be in excess of 2.5.

Benefits:

• Base salary

• Performance related Bonus

• Access to a market data, infrastructure, back-testing tools.

• Ability to leverage from the firms algorithmic trading capabilities, execution models

• Ability to submit your orders via the electronic market making desk so as to disguise your trading activity and reduce your chance of getting picked off in the market.

• Ability to cross your orders with order flow from the affiliated brokerage business thereby reducing your transaction expenditure.

• Ability to increase the book size from $500m to over $1bn once you have developed a suitable track record.

For more details on this role please contact James Kennedy

James.kennedy@njfsearch.com