Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leading global asset management firm seeking an Associate Investment Research Analyst to join their Fixed Income Research team. The role involves conducting in-depth research on structured credit markets and contributing to the investment process by collaborating with senior analysts and portfolio managers.
Responsibilities
- Develop investment skills and abilities for primary research responsibility of one or more Structured Product sectors
- Interact with issuers and dealers, attending meetings and conferences as needed
- Combine quantitative and qualitative research to form forward-looking investment views
- Gather, manipulate, and store large amounts of data for analysis of investment opportunities
- Complete on-going surveillance of portfolio holdings to assess credit performance
- Build and maintain relationships with multiple sell-side parties
- Propose and contribute to independent and group research projects
- Contribute to team discussions focused on investment opportunities and performance
- Complete ad hoc projects at the direction of senior analysts and portfolio managers
- Automate tasks to improve efficiency of investment process
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in finance, economics, mathematics, engineering, or a related field with a strong academic record
- 0-2 years of experience in structured products, securitized credit, fixed income research, trading, or risk
- Acute attention to detail, strong analytical and quantitative skills, and a proven ability to distill practical answers from large amounts of data
- Self-starter with an ability to manage multiple responsibilities and meet time-sensitive deadlines, often with vague or unclear directions
- Passion for investments and financial markets with an explicit interest in fixed income and structured products
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated experience collaborating effectively across teams and with clients
- Programming experience in any language
- Familiarity with a variety of AI applications and tools
- Ability to scrub and query data from database systems using SQL
- Progress toward, willingness-to-complete, or completion of the CFA designation
Benefits
- Vacation time
- Sick time
- 401(k)
- Health, dental and life insurances
Company Overview
Columbia Threadneedle Investments is an asset management firm. It was founded in 1985, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.columbiathreadneedle.com.