Quantitative Portfolio Manager, Equities CIO – Vice President
A senior quantitative portfolio role in Wealth Management's CIO equities team, supporting an $80bn global equity portfolio. You own factor research, risk analytics and portfolio construction advice for fundamental managers.
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.
- Set the quant research agenda and factor tilts for the equity team
- Own multi-factor risk model use, exposure monitoring and scenario analysis
- Improve portfolio construction with turnover, cost and liquidity constraints
- Lead performance and factor attribution
- Build Python research tooling and apply ML where it helps
What they ask for
Required
- 6+ years in quantitative investing, equity research or risk analytics
- Equity factor investing and risk modelling
- Portfolio construction under constraints
- Advanced Python with pandas, NumPy and SciPy
- Statistics, econometrics and ML for investing
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred
- Master's or PhD in a quantitative field
- CFA progress
- Education
- Bachelor's required; Master's or PhD strongly preferred
- Experience
- 6+ years in quantitative investing, equity research, portfolio construction or risk analytics
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities
How to prepare
- Build a factor model and attribution on public equity returns
- Study portfolio optimisation with turnover and cost constraints
- Learn how commercial factor risk models such as Axioma are built
- Practise explaining quant results as decisions to non-quant PMs
What to study
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
- Portfolio Theory and Quantitative Investment
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
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