Senior Quant – Equity – Asset Management – Boston recruitment
For a global Asset Manager, this is a unique role for an experienced research analyst who is well versed in both quantitative and fundamental research in Equity.
The senior quant will be involved in the analysis of mutual funds and investment groups in terms of fund positioning, portfolio construction and risk parameters.
The role involves a range of quant tasks such as developing tactical asset allocation viewpoints and strategies using varied statistical analyses and techniques, and assessing performance and risk characteristics of all major investment asset classes/sub-asset classes and the interaction between them over different phases of the business/market cycle. Your involvement in the vetting of mutual funds in close association with the fundamental researchers, requires you to have several years of collaborative experience with research teams in quantitative and fundamental disciplines.
The right candidate will have the following core technical skills:
extensive programming in R
Database skills in Oracle or SQL
Experience with Bloomberg, FactSet, Stylus, Barra or other portfolio assessment tools.
From a knowledge standpoint:
Asset Allocation, portfolio construction, risk management
leadership and collaborative skills
commercial risk models (barra/northfield)
If you are interested in the position and have in excess of 7 years of experience in similar disciplines, please upload your CV for the attention of Ruth Steel at Huxley Associates, Boston.