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Quant - Systematic Multi-Strategy
Man Group is seeking a quant in London for its Systematic Multi-Strat team to focus on portfolio construction, risk management, and the development of quantitative models. The role requires strong quantitative skills, programming expertise in Python/R, and experience in statistical analysis and working with big data.
Tasks
- Development of Existing Portfolios
- Use of Market Research for Alpha Analysis and Validation
- Monitoring the Portfolio Construction Process
- Daily Book and Risk Management
- Contribution to the second research group regarding its effectiveness in interaction and collaboration as a member of the research team
- Analysis of portfolio data, calculation of risk metrics, and monitoring of trading performance
- Conducting backtests, stress tests, and scenario analyses to assess the robustness of investment strategies
- Maintenance and updating of investment models, data pipelines, and reporting tools
- Preparing presentations, papers, and reports for senior management and clients
- Coordinate with the trading, risk, and finance teams to ensure smooth execution and accurate reporting
- Contribution to the Development of the Company's Investment Research and Data Infrastructure
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams on technology, data, and process improvements
- Writing well-structured and relevant code while ensuring clean code
- Adapting Solutions and Code Using Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Commitment to continuous learning and staying up to date with the latest technologies
- Work Using Agile Methodology
- Research projects aimed at expanding and improving our model-based approaches
- Collaborating with teams that work across different platforms
Requirements
- Strong quantitative skills in statistics, data analysis, and programming in R and Python
- Experience with risk measurement frameworks (VaR, CVaR) and risk-regulatory models (Barra and alternative approaches based on tick-level data)
- Understanding the Challenges of Rebalancing in the Presence of Transaction Costs, Volatility, and Capacity
- Understanding HPC (High-Performance Computing) Environments
- Knowledge of machine learning and pre-trained models
- Ability to work in an agile environment with multiple stakeholders
- Knowledge of portfolio management, financial modeling, algorithm engineering, statistics, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing
- 4 years of professional experience after graduation (postgraduate), depending on experience at two or more locations
- Quantitative analysis skills that are recognized as expertise in our field
- A strong understanding of the underlying investment techniques in portfolio management
- Knowledge of hedge funds, including trading rules and order flow
- Proficiency in Python/R or similar languages
- Experience in building large datasets
- Experience with management techniques and tools for monitoring
- Professional programming skills in Python
- Strong quantitative skills and a degree in mathematics, statistics, or a related field (e.g., mathematics, computer science, engineering, econometrics, or physics) with a strong mathematical background
- A proactive approach to leveraging capabilities to reform research and practice across the entire organization
- Researcher with strong quantitative skills, self-motivation, and a willingness to take risks
- An understanding of and interest in the performance analysis of quantitative strategies as well as in fundamental analysis
- Strong mathematical skills, ability to evaluate and implement in
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