Aqr Capital Management LLC

Aqr Capital Management LLC

2027 Portfolio Implementation, Trading and Portfolio Finance Summer Analyst

Greenwich, CT · Senior · Internship

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
PythonMATLABSpringSQLStatisticsResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • A successful Portfolio Implementation, Trading and Financing Summer Analyst will become intimately familiar with global financial markets, financial economics, asset management, quantitative investing and AQR's investment philosophy.
  • This role offers the opportunity to work with senior investment professionals within the firm and exposes the candidate to all aspects of portfolio management, in particular:
  • Portfolio Implementation Research: research and improve portfolio construction and optimization techniques

Responsibilities

  • We recognize and respect the power of collaboration and believe transparency and openness to new ideas leads to innovation.
  • Financing: optimize financing and clearing for the firm, invest, and manage cash and cash-equivalent instruments

Requirements

  • Pursuing either a Bachelor's or Master's degree
  • Strong technical aptitude with demonstrated experience and knowledge of programming languages (Python, MATLAB, R) and SQL
  • Detail-orientation, ability to multi-task

Skills

  • The department comprises portfolio implementation, trading, and financing specialists.
  • Exceptional problem solving and quantitative skills (Calculus, Linear Algebra, Statistics)
  • Excellent communication skills

Company info

  • The Portfolio Implementation, Trading and Portfolio Finance team is responsible for the construction, optimization, and management of AQR's systematic portfolios as well as for the efficient trade execution and financing of AQR's investment strategies.
  • Portfolio Implementation specialists work closely with multiple groups across the firm to bring to market new systematic investment strategies and refine existing ones, across a broad range of investment mandates and across global markets.
  • The Portfolio Implementation team, together with the researchers, shares the responsibility over the investment and risk management of AQR's portfolios, in a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment.
  • Trading specialists are responsible for all the firm's global trading on exchanges, SEFs, and OTC markets, as well as the evaluation of algorithmic trading methodologies in many asset classes.
  • In addition to that they collaborate with Portfolio Implementation and Research specialists in the management of portfolios and the refinement of the investment process.
  • Financing specialists are responsible for the optimization of the cash and synthetic financing of the firm across asset classes traded by the firm.
  • In addition, they invest and manage cash and cash-equivalent instruments across portfolios as well as manage AQR's critical relationships with the largest firms on Wall Street.
  • We strive to deliver concrete, long-term results by looking past market noise to identify and isolate the factors that matter most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing.

Equal opportunity

  • AQR is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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