Equity Quantitative Analyst – EE, (Johannesburg/ Cape Town) recruitment

Your knowledge in mathematics will be coupled with ongoing training in Equities Research (ideally you will have a demonstrable interest in equity capital markets) with a mentor who will be responsible for your personal development. You will help research and build equity trading strategies used by the trading teams across the buy-side. Core requirements;  Post graduate quantitative degree (cum laude) (Physics, actuarial, mathematics, statistics)    A passion to build a career in the Front Office  Ideally VBA and Matlab  team player

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Equity Quantitative Analyst – Asset Management recruitment

Key TasksTo assist in the improvement of Quantitative Research within a fundamental research-driven investment business.To facilitate the communication of equity strategies by successfully communicating complex methodologies to internal clientsTo aid in the understanding of  biases and risksTo play a key role in the development of new products with quantitative investment strategies and backtests, eg theme-based productsExperience/QualificationsGood knowledge of R/S-PLUS and VBA (essential) and MATLAB (preferred)Experience of developing and analysing quantitative equity modelsPractical experience Read more […]

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Equity Quantitative Analyst – Front Office Model Validation – Investment Bank recruitment

The team independently develop re-implement front office pricing models and evaluate the models used across the group, often using Monte Carlo simulations.You should have strong experience within equity derivatives or Fixed Income pricing and hedging models, C++ Matlab programming for model implementation, knowledge of Derivative/Exotics and come from either Model Validation, Model Risk or Front-Office background.Experience of challenging traders’ valuations and models and independently developing alternatives, as opposed to just re-implementing the front office models.The client can offer Read more […]

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