Portfolio Manager – Cubist Systematic
A senior role running systematic strategies at Cubist, Point72's computer-driven trading affiliate. The portfolio manager leads a small team of researchers and developers and is accountable for risk, execution and performance.
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.
- Monitor strategy performance and adjust portfolio risk in real time
- Oversee automated execution and keep an eye on transaction costs
- Direct research into new signals, models and data sources
- Expand the trading universe into new exchanges and products
- Supervise researchers and developers day to day
What they ask for
Required
- Master's or PhD in a computational or analytical field
- 10+ years building or running quantitative models for equities, futures or FX
- Full research-process experience from data collection to backtesting and live monitoring
- Forecasting and optimisation modelling
- Risk, return and trading-cost modelling
- Team leadership
- Education
- Master's or PhD in a computational or analytical field
- Experience
- 10+ years developing or implementing quantitative models in equities, futures or FX
- Markets
- equities, futures, fx
How to prepare
- Study how portfolio construction ties together alpha forecasts, risk models and transaction costs
- Run a full backtest with realistic costs and write up why it may overstate live performance
- Read about execution and market impact models
- Look at how systematic funds attribute and monitor performance
What to study
- Portfolio Theory and Quantitative Investment
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
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