Aqr Capital Management LLC

Aqr Capital Management LLC

Macro Strategies - Product Specialist Analyst

Greenwich, CT · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$160kDetected 36 days ago
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About the role

  • The Macro Strategies team is responsible for the research and portfolio management of AQR's entire range of strategies which focus on macro asset classes.
  • These strategies include Managed Futures, Alternative Trends, Global Macro, Risk Parity, Commodities and Multi-Strategy portfolios, among several others.
  • Product specialist teams play a key role bridging AQR's portfolio management and research process to other functional areas, particularly business development.

Responsibilities

  • We recognize and respect the power of collaboration and believe transparency and openness to new ideas leads to innovation.

Requirements

  • Mature and thoughtful, with the ability to operate in a collaborative, team-oriented culture
  • Bachelor's degree in a business or quantitative discipline
  • Superior analytical ability with a deep understanding of investment; experience with quantitative strategies preferred
  • Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and basic programming skills (Python and SQL) required
  • Entrepreneurial spirit with a demonstrated work ethic, competitiveness and tenacity required to achieve top performance

Nice to have

  • Superior analytical ability with a deep understanding of investment
  • experience with quantitative strategies preferred

Skills

  • Analyze portfolio performance using existing tools, and contribute to the development of new monitoring tools
  • Conduct custom portfolio analysis to address questions from clients or senior investment professionals
  • Present portfolio analysis results to product and portfolio teams

Compensation

  • The salary range for this role is expected to be $150,000 to $160,000.

Company info

  • They are an integral part of initiatives to create, market and manage specific AQR products.
  • Product specialist teams are integral to processes related to new product research and development, creating content for new and customized internal and external presentations, new account onboarding, portfolio implementation monitoring, performance analysis, and interactions with existing clients and prospects.
  • Product specialists serve as portfolio management team representatives in interactions with the rest of the firm including portfolio implementation, trading, business development, legal, compliance, risk, operations and marketing teams.
  • Through this collaboration, product specialist teams have in-depth knowledge of the strategies they cover and are expected to be in-house experts of their respective products.
  • We are seeking an exceptionally talented individual to join AQR's macro strategies product specialist team.
  • This role will give end-to-end exposure to the portfolio management process and continued evolution of AQR's macro strategies and will include opportunities to work with senior investment professionals across the firm.
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  • 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.

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