Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
As a quant research analyst for one of our world leading Long Short businesses you’ll have the opportunity to get exposed to all aspects of the business; performance analysis, portfolio, and risk management, execution analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Work with equity management to run various performance and risk related quantitative analyses
- Design and develop various tools in Python that will be crucial for analysis, research, trading, and risk management purposes
- Ensure integrity of data management pipeline and the underlying data itself, and actively identify, diagnose, and remedy data issues
- Provide ongoing maintenance, research support, and enhancements to Portfolio Managers in their daily processes.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with internal tech and data teams, Portfolio managers, researchers, traders, and outside vendors
- Stay abreast of market trends and academic research to continually adapt and refine trading strategies and portfolio analytics
- Implement machine learning and other advanced techniques to enhance predictive accuracy
Qualifications:
- Exceptional analytical abilities and a strong problem-solving mindset
- At least 3 years experience in Python programming, ideally including libraries relevant to data analysis and machine learning
- Strong work ethic
- Effective collaborator
- Understanding of risk factor models and at least 2 to 3 years’ experience working with various vendor models (Barra/Axioma/Wolfe)
- Experience with AWS or other cloud technology is a plus
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What We Do
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Credit, Fixed Income & Macro, Convertible & Volatility Arbitrage, Event-Driven, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets, and Quantitative Strategies.
Talent is the lifeline of Verition's success. Our culture encourages individuals to communicate openly across all strategies and businesses, and we believe there is alpha in integration. We strive to empower our Investment Professionals to act like business owners by making decisions based on a combination of rigorous analysis and an open, creative mindset. We have locations in Greenwich, CT, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, London, UK, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, DIFC, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and an affiliate office in Hong Kong (SAR), China. Verition has an institutional quality infrastructure with a team of over 500 investment/risk and non-investment professionals.
Verition is always seeking ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals that can be impactful and help to drive differentiated returns.
To learn more, please contact us for information at: resumes@veritionfund.com
