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Quant Researcher – Strategic Alpha Research

A researcher role in Man Group's Strategic Alpha Research team, working on equity strategies end to end. It runs from data ideas to signals and execution.

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.

Find new ideas and data sources for equity strategies
Gather and clean data for modelling
Build and test predictive models with statistics and ML
Research trading cost models, risk models and optimisation
Share methods with fixed-income and macro research teams

What they ask for

Required

Advanced degree in computer science, statistics, maths or finance
Three years or more of research experience
Econometrics or statistics for empirical work
Strong programming, Python preferred
Original research ability
Clear communication

Preferred

Full alpha lifecycle experience
Applying complex modelling, ML or LLMs to investment problems

Education: Advanced degree in computer science, statistics, maths, finance or economics
Experience: 3+ years in research; investment experience not required
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Replicate an equity factor and test it with trading costs
Practise econometrics for panel data
Study portfolio construction with transaction costs
Try ML or LLM features on equity data

What to study

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