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

1. Apply technical expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, economics & financial markets knowledge to perform economic modelling and event studies using Python
2. 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
3. Design and implementation of algorithms and automated tools using Python for web-scraping, data cleaning, and data visualization purposes
4. 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