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Departmental Overview: BlackRock offers a range of investment products—equity, fixed income, liquidity, and alternative investment—each of which is managed by a dedicated investment team of portfolio managers, research analysts, and traders. Focused portfolio management and proprietary research are the cornerstones of our investment philosophy, and portfolio construction is based on each team’s market outlook.
Our portfolio teams manage assets for institutional and individual investors alike. Accordingly, all of our clients benefit from our portfolio management expertise and risk management analytics.
Role Description: An exceptional opportunity to join one of the leading multi-asset investment teams at one of the world’s premier asset managers, to take a leadership role in developing and implementing quantitatively driven investment research screens and analytics. This is a portfolio management role working for the head of research to support multiple investment strategies including both relative and absolute return strategies as well as our global macro hedge fund. Responsibilities:
Be the focal point for quantitative investment research in MAPS London and establish synergies with MAPS’ quantitative capability in New York With a particular emphasis on supporting the global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) product’s quantitative process o primarily a model driven process covering equities, bonds and currencies o MAPS manage a range of segregated accounts, pooled fund launch is imminent, macro hedge fund strategy Model building and idea generation Provide quantitative support to judgemental investment processes: screening and idea generation across the major asset classes Contribution to team publications Skills and Qualifications: Strong quantitative background, both academically and as a practitioner · ability to translate intellectual concepts into alpha generating ideas · able to link model outputs to portfolio construction process · excellent understanding of financial market dynamics Advanced degree in finance or statistics and experienced programmer (MATLAB) Willingness to take on significant personal responsibilities within a team-oriented culture Willingness to contribute to quantitative and judgmental team processes Good presentational skills, both internally and to clients
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