Sr. Research Analyst recruitment
With over 8,000 employees working in 30 countries around the world to service over 240 financial products, we offer an exceptional range of diverse career options. Our corporate values reflect the best of our employees. We believe in putting clients first, building relationships, achieving quality results, and working with integrity. We strive to bring a balance of work and life to our employees.
Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Strategies (FTMAS) is a global investment management group that was formed to combine the research and oversight of the various fund-of-fund products offered by Franklin Templeton Investments around the world. FTMAS is comprised of managed asset experts from across Franklin Templeton Investments who have access to global resources and investment expertise in North America, Asia, Europe and the emerging economies of the Middle East and South America. FTMAS has the ability to draw from over 200 investment management strategies to deliver fully diversified portfolios. The FTMAS team’s philosophy combines a top down and bottom up approach in order to deliver diversified, actively managed investment solutions.
The FTMAS team is looking for a Sr. Research Analyst to join a team of 5 Analysts who work on developing new and improving existing valuation, risk, and portfolio construction models to generate alpha and manage the risk of global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) strategies and products. GTAA strategies use a quantitative process based on macroeconomic data, technical, and fundamental valuation to take active investment decisions in stock market indices, government bonds, commodities, and the currencies of the developed and emerging markets. The candidate will conduct applied research to identify, evaluate and quantitatively/qualitatively test new investment ideas across equity, fixed income, currency, and commodity markets. Strategy invests currently in stock market indices, government bonds, and the currencies of developed markets but researcher will be involved to the degree appropriate and desirable in expanding investment process to additional asset classes, regions, countries, or sectors.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Conduct applied research to identify, evaluate and test new investment ideas across multiple asset classes.
- Work with other GTAA team members to continuously enhance existing models and improve asset allocation decisions.
- Support product development, marketing and client relationship management efforts as necessary.
Ideal candidates will have:
- PhD in Economics
- At least 3 years of experience conducting global macro research
- Strong command of programming languages such as MatLab, C or C++
- Strong command of econometric analysis and the use of EViews, SAS or Stata
- Strong command of Excel and VBA
- Ability to translate investment ideas to quantitative models
- Exceptional research capabilities and a strong understanding of financial economics
- Ability to work well in a collaborative environment.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking abilities.
- Intellectual persistence to tackle hard problems and develop insights from multiple angles.
- Leadership experience considered a plus.