Investment Research Analyst

4 weeks ago

Kansas City, United States American Century Investment Services, Inc. Full time
Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm's 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-more than $1.8 billion - to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

For more information, please visit americancentury.com.

Responsibilities:
  • Build stock selection models integrating quantitative methods with fundamental analyst inputs
  • Back-test investment strategies, optimize risk/return, and develop innovative approaches to portfolio construction and the investment process
  • Perform risk & return analysis to understand drivers of performance, performance contours of strategies, and find opportunities to improve risk-adjusted returns of funds managed
  • Actively collaborate and contribute to research, investment ideas, product development, and portfolio management
  • Participate in client communication of strategies and investment process
Requirements:
  • MBA/Master's level education with an undergraduate focus in data analytics, computer science, engineering, statistics, or related fields
  • 2 years of experience in a quantitative or data analytics role within asset management
  • Understanding of global capital markets and macroeconomic interrelationships
  • Experience implementing systematic equity investment strategies
  • Strong understanding of accounting data, company fundamentals and equity analysis
  • Proficient in Python, MATLAB or R
  • Comfortable using FactSet and other portfolio management/data environments
  • Able to communicate complex topics in a simple way to clients
Desired Qualities:
  • Effectively communicates ideas, takes accountability for results, and functions well in a team
  • Practical approach to problem solving
  • Strong economic intuition and investor mindset
  • Understanding the pitfalls of models and how to question results
  • Thrives on change, ambiguity, and strives for continuous improvement
  • Curious, drives innovation, supports new ideas, and can adapt to a range of situations

Additional Requirements:

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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