Role & Responsibilities
First-year Analyst role within the Research & Strategy team. Primary function is to support the fund’s Portfolio Managers. Key aspects of the role:
- Keeping abreast with currency, equity and fixed income trends and valuation and market moving events (including geopolitical events)
- Analysing economic data in all Asian and G10 markets to formulate trade ideas
- Econometric models and Quantitative statistical analysis are also utilized
- Regular interaction with external sell-side research and economists
- Python proficiency
- Apply technical expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, economics & financial markets knowledge to perform economic modelling and event studies using Python
- Development and back-testing of systematic trading strategies across different asset classes (FX, Equities, Fixed Income) using statistics libraries from Python and in-house proprietary software
- Design and implementation of algorithms and automated tools using Python for web-scraping, data cleaning, and data visualization purposes
- Build new libraries for analytics by writing clean and maintainable code
Basic Qualifications
- Highly motivated self-starter who has an individual passion for financial markets
- Keen understanding of macroeconomic, fixed income, currency and equity markets
- Strong, confident communication and interaction skills
- On top of strong academic qualifications, quantitative finance qualifications or academic courses will be valued
- Prior fund management internship experience is preferred
- Besides strong Excel skills, Programming/Coding is REQUIRED (Python, C++) and able to use Bloomberg
- Fluency in Business Mandarin is a must
