Quantitative Masters Intern – Portfolio Management (2027)
A master's-level summer internship in BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group, with possible placement in the systematic (quantitative) investing team, fundamental equities or the central coordination team. It mirrors the firm's MBA internship but targets quantitative students.
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.
- Support a portfolio management team with data analysis in Python on how portfolios are built and performing
- Help test and document investment ideas the way the systematic team does, with data and models
- Prepare short written or verbal summaries of research findings for senior investors
- Sit in strategy meetings and training sessions to learn how investment decisions are made
What they ask for
Required
- Enrolled in a quantitative master's (analytics, computational finance, financial engineering, maths)
- Graduating between September 2027 and July 2028
- Relevant work experience before the master's
- Python or similar programming
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Interest in markets and portfolio management
- Education
- Current master's student in analytics, computational finance, financial engineering, maths or a similar quantitative subject
- Experience
- Master's students with some work experience before the degree
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities, fixed-income, multi-asset
How to prepare
- Build a small Python project that backtests a simple factor or momentum portfolio and reports its risk and return
- Learn the basics of portfolio construction: mean-variance, risk models and diversification
- Read how systematic equity managers describe testing ideas, and practise explaining a result in half a page
- Prepare to discuss a market view you can defend with data
What to study
- Portfolio Theory and Quantitative Investment
- Python and Data Primer
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
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