Quantitative Researcher

Anson McCade
London, United Kingdom
2 months ago
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Quantitative Researcher
£150,000 GBP
+ £100,000
Onsite WORKING
Location: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

My client is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative

strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for their clients. They have

deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute their success to rigorous scientific research. As a

technology and data-driven firm, they design and build their own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading

platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, they emphasize true, global

collaboration by aligning their investment, technology, and operations teams functionally around the world. Building on

their quantitative research platform and process-driven approach, they also run discretionary strategies to augment their

systematic approach and monetize opportunities which may not be suitable to be traded in a systematic strategy.

Role/Responsibilities:

  • Perform rigorous and innovative research to discover systematic anomalies in equity markets
  • End-to-end development: alpha idea generation, data processing, strategy backtesting, optimiza...

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