Overview

Client Investment Research Analysts play a vital role in service of Bridgewater's overall client service strategy across our front office departments - the Alpha Engine, Total Portfolio Strategies, and Client Service.

Day-to-day work includes collaborating with our Client Advisors, asset class research teams, and CIOs to define approaches on how to handle different client-focused research projects and execute on them through research, analysis, and project management, culminating in novel investment insights that informs our clients' thinking.

Bridgewater's market-driven approach to client service requires our Client Investment Research Analysts to continually expand their understanding and knowledge of the markets. Through formal training and informal on-the-job instruction, Client Investment Research Analysts become well-versed in our investment approach, process and different strategies, our book of business, and our production systems.

Key Responsibilities

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Understand Bridgewater's book of business, related commercial strategy and our investment thinking.
• Strategize with Client Advisors, other Research teams and investment professionals (at times including CIOs and other Sr. Researchers) and help develop best approach to handle client requests, enable high quality client engagements.
• Apply analytical skills, market knowledge, and an understanding of Bridgewater's investment methodology to create insights to help shape clients' investment thinking or deliver client-ready portfolio position and performance reports to allow our Client Advisors, Investment Strategists and Chief Investment Officers to tell the Bridgewater investment story in a rich and accurate way.
• Work creatively with existing methodologies and tools to identify and solve problems in how we serve clients by simultaneously contributing to the creation of new tools, models, and or "machines" to automate and streamline our processes.

Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field with a strong academic and extracurricular track record
• Interest for and understanding of markets and investing
• Ability to solve complex problems through analysis
• Aptitude for creative quantitative work involving financial and economic data

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.

Skills & Competencies:

• Effective written and oral communication skills with strong attention to detail
• A high degree of proficiency in Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel; general comfort with learning and using new software tools
• Bachelor's degree with strong academic record preferred
• Experience in financial services or a professional business environment is a plus, though not required
• This role communicates regularly with our US offices. Fluency in English and strong written communication skills are required.