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Quantitative Risk and Portfolio Analytics – Associate

A role on the central trading and risk team of a multi-manager market neutral equity hedge fund. It partners with portfolio managers on portfolio construction, risk monitoring and quantitative tooling.

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.

Run factor attribution and exposure analysis across managers
Improve portfolio construction and optimisation methods
Stress test portfolios and monitor fund-wide concentrations
Research alpha signals and how they interact with positioning
Build Python tools and automation for portfolio analytics

What they ask for

Required

2-5 years of relevant experience, ideally buy side
Equity markets and market neutral construction
Equity risk models such as Barra or Axioma
Statistical methods
Python and SQL
Large financial time series
Optimisation, stress testing and simulation

Preferred

Multi-manager platform experience

Education: Advanced degree in maths, statistics, engineering, computer science or a similar field.
Experience: 2-5 years of relevant experience, preferably buy side
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Markets: equities, futures

How to prepare

Build a factor risk model from returns and regress a portfolio's exposures on it
Implement a long-short portfolio optimiser with factor-neutral constraints
Write a Python report that attributes returns by factor, sector and position
Run historical and hypothetical stress scenarios on a sample equity book

What to study

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