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2027 Quantitative Masters Internship – Portfolio Management

A master's internship in BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group, with teams spanning systematic investing, fundamental equities and the central PMG function. It suits students who want to see how portfolios are managed.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Contribute to a team project in systematic, fundamental or core PMG
Use Python to analyse portfolio or market data
Attend investment strategy meetings and debriefs
Prepare concise summaries of research and findings
Learn how portfolio managers make decisions

What they ask for

Required

Enrolled in a quantitative master's programme graduating Sep 2027 to Jul 2028
Pre-master's work experience
Coding in Python or similar
Analytical thinking
Written and verbal communication

Education: Master's student in analytics, computational finance, financial engineering, maths or similar
Experience: Students with relevant pre-master's work experience
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: equities, multi-asset

How to prepare

Build a simple portfolio construction and attribution notebook
Learn how systematic and fundamental processes differ
Practise summarising research in a one-page note
Study mean-variance optimisation and its limits
Follow market news and form a view on a few stocks

What to study

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