Senior Quantitative Portfolio Construction Equities Analyst recruitment
Responsibilities:
Assist in designing Active Equity Investment Risk Strategies and effective implementation of Risk Budget for portfolio managers. The role will work closely with the Portfolio Management teams, as well as continuous interaction with the various teams within the Quantitative Research Group.
- Optimise the structure of the funds by seeking new ways of constructing portfolios and challenging investment ideas.
- Be responsible for developing quantitative techniques that support portfolio managers in their investment decisions. In particular, there will be strong interaction between Financial Engineering and the Quant Analytics Development group to further the development of the risk approaches and systems.
- Contribute to the design of the proprietary risk systems to support Risk budgeting and active risk management
- Implementing prototypes to support the proposed quantitative approaches and to assess their effectiveness before their migration into the global system.
Accountabilities:
- Candidate will be focussing on European Small/Mid Cap Long/Short portfolios (Equities)Analysis and optimisation of the performance/risk composition of all portfolios under management
- Developing models to identify the factors that drive performance and enhance it
- Design new strategies aiming to improve the performance profile of the portfolios
- Support Senior Management and Portfolio Managers in driving business successes through a critical and constructive analysis of the composition of funds
- Regular reporting on funds’ performance and risk composition to portfolio managers and senior management
Experience:
- Exposure to equity portfolios is an advantage
- Previous work experience in Portfolio management of risk Analysis
- Programming experience desirable
- Experience in a customer service area beneficial
- 5 + Years – Financial Services/Asset Management Experience
- Excellent analytical skills
- Strong programming skills
To discuss this unique opportunity - please contact Shane Burke for a private
and confidential discussion. Tel 00-353-1-8746770
Email: sburke@paragonexecutive.com
May 5, 2012
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