Quantitative Strategist, Tactical Asset Allocation, London, £250k+ recruitment
Our clients are known globally as one of the most successful high frequency proprietary trading firms. Their core focus has and continues to be on the development and trading of equity and FX based systematic trading strategies. A leading prop firm with a very strong reputation in the quantitative portfolio management space is looking for a quantitative strategist with experience in developing strategies for strategic and tactical asset allocation.
As a quantitative strategist, you will be responsible for developing new strategies and maintaining existing strategies. In addition to this you will working on portfolio construction and optimization, and you will have significant responsibility in working directly with portfolio managers, which will give you a very strong experience to move into this space. A focus of this will be to create multi-factor methods and tools to support research across multiple asset classes aimed at improving fund positioning, portfolio construction, sub-advisor manager selection and risk management.
This is a rare opportunity to work in such a reputable organization and will offer the chance to build a long term career in a world leading group with a highly competitive salary package, with the potential for large performance related bonuses.
Requirements:
• At least Associate to Vice-President level experience in developing quantitative strategies
• Strong programming ability in C++ is essential.
• A keen interest in moving into portfolio management as a long-term career goal.
• PhD in statistics, econometrics, machine learning and or related discipline.
• Strong communication skills as you will be meeting regularly with senior portfolio management as well as the investment committee and research teams.
Contact:
If you find this role of interest, please contact Chris Kidd at +44 (0)20 3178 5678 or via email on apply@mavenalpha.com quoting the reference CRKD.