Quantitative Analyst

1 day ago


Kansas City, Missouri, United States American Century Investment Services, Inc. Full time
Job Summary

The Quantitative Analyst will be fully embedded within the U.S. Midcap Growth investment team, working to combine quantitative with fundamental analysis to deliver performance.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Quantitative Research and Modeling
  • Partner with portfolio managers and analysts on researching new strategies, back-testing investment ideas, and enhancing the investment process to deliver alpha.
  • Assist in the development and generation of investment ideas by utilizing fundamental analysis and creating incremental quantitative reports that identify potentially attractive stocks.
  • Build and maintain empirical models for stock selection and portfolio construction in collaboration with the investment team.
  • Perform risk & return analysis to understand drivers of results and identify opportunities to improve risk-adjusted returns across Midcap Growth strategies.
  • Design analytical tools for managing unintended portfolio risk exposures, evaluate liquidity risks, and perform scenario analysis.
Fundamental Research
  • Fundamental analysis of individual companies, including reading company documents, synthesizing research, and communicating investment ideas.
  • Build multi-year financial models to determine appropriate valuations under various scenarios.
  • Provide risk management input to portfolio construction and implementation.
  • Meet with management teams or investor relations professionals to increase knowledge of companies under coverage.
  • Communicate findings of research to Portfolio Managers.
Competencies:
  • Practical approach to problem-solving.
  • Strong economic intuition and investor mindset.
  • Understanding of the pitfalls of quantitative models and simulation results.
  • Thrives on change, ambiguity, challenge status quo, and strives for continuous improvement.
  • Curious, drives innovation, supports new ideas, and can adapt to a range of situations.
  • Effectively communicates ideas, takes accountability for results, and functions well in a team.
  • Ability to work in a team-oriented fast-paced environment while being able to prioritize projects.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, or other quantitative disciplines.
  • Advanced degrees such as Masters or Ph.D. and CFA certification preferred.
  • 2-5 years of equity investment analyst or quantitative analyst experience in the investment management business is required.
  • Advanced understanding of statistical techniques and time series/cross-sectional analysis using Python, R, or MatLab is required.
  • Advanced Super User of FactSet as a primary data source and other data toolkits is required.
  • Experience required with Barra, Axioma, or Northgate.
  • High-level understanding of fundamental "bottom-up" company analysis of companies in various sectors.
  • Depth of investment insight to effectively communicate externally as an extension of the portfolio management team.
  • Marketplace credibility to represent investment strategies as well as organize effective client and consultant engagements.
  • Strong client communication skills in delivering asset solutions to institutional clients.
  • Prior experience performing deep quantitative analysis strongly preferred. Experience performing detailed fundamental analysis of equities is a plus.


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