Quantitative Equity Portfolio Manager

Our client, a well regarded investment management firm, are seeking a Quantitative Equity Portfolio Manager to work within its growing quantitative investment team. The role will be focusing on the production of investment research, portfolio optimisation and risk management, applied to both traditional and alternative data.This new addition to the team will be responsible for research, development and continuous improvement of the firm’s existing strategies as well as in development of new ones, whilst contributing towards investment discussions and be actively involved in the portfolio management process of the firms' quantitative portfolios.
Responsibilities:Portfolio management of funds in line with mandates and strategy objectives; portfolio construction, optimisation & rebalancingLead research into quantitative studies with the aim of improving strategy returnsDevelop & Improve models employing a range of financial techniques and dataAssist with the development of the teams quantitative infrastructure & research tools
The CandidateThis role is open to applicants with 5+ years of relevant experienceAdvanced degree (3rd level and/or postgraduate) in a technical discipline such as quantitative finance, statistics, computer science, mathematics, physics or engineeringDemonstratable experience of implementing ideas in practice with knowledge and/or exposure to various asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, FXCoding: experience of coding with Python, Matlab, R or similar packagesData: experience working with financial data such as company fundamentals, market data, sentiment, etc. Knowledge of relational databases such as MS-SQL a plusTeam player and ability to effectively communicate quantitative topics and concepts
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