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Equity Index Quant Research Vice President

A senior research role in the team that designs custom factor, thematic, climate and ESG indexes. You follow industry trends and recommend methodology changes together with large asset 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.

Track developments in investment styles and asset allocation to shape index ideas
Research and recommend methodology enhancements for custom indexes
Analyse and prototype index designs with Python
Discuss proposals with leading investment management clients

What they ask for

Required

Equity analysis and investment process
Institutional and buy-side portfolio management concepts
Python
Excel and PowerPoint
Data vendors and portfolio systems
Communication and presentation

Preferred

VBA
MATLAB or SQL
Modular design

Education: Not stated
Experience: Not stated; the VP title suggests senior experience
Languages and tools: Python
VBA
MATLAB
SQL
Excel
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Replicate an index methodology end to end, covering universe, weights, caps and rebalances
Study ESG and climate index construction approaches and their data sources
Build a backtest comparing factor tilts and their turnover and tracking error
Practise defending a methodology choice to a client audience

What to study

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