Internship – graduation assignment - ING Investment Office
At ING, we believe it’s your ideas, not your age that matter most. As part of our team, you’ll work in a dynamic, international environment where you learn at a fast pace and be hands-on from the start.
Our ambition is to help build a financially healthy and sustainable society for the Netherlands. Investing can play a role in the financial health of clients. We find it important to offer accessible investment solutions to our clients. In the portfolios of the Investment Office, sustainability plays an important role. Many of our clients are interested in sustainable investing, and we offer this through various sustainable strategies. At the ING Investment Office, we integrate ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria into our investment processes to ensure that our investments positively contribute a better world and mitigate the adverse impact as much as possible. To optimize investment decisions for our clients we want to investigate what the impact of ESG rollbacks by corporations is on stock performance. Additionally, you will explore the behavioral finance aspects behind these reactions, investigating how investor psychology and behavior influence market responses to changes in ESG strategies. You will investigate whether these reactions can be explained by traditional financial factors, or if they are driven by other elements, such as changes in sustainability perceptions or pure market Alpha. Your findings will help optimize investment decisions and contribute to our understanding of the financial and psychological implications of ESG strategies.
Your work environment
ING Investment Office Market Leaders (Investment Office) develops and formulates ING's central investment view and manages ING’s discretionary investment strategies.
Investment Office Market Leaders is based in Amsterdam, Brussels, and Luxembourg with a total of approximately fifty employees. More than half of the staff is located at ING's head office in Amsterdam Zuid Oost which will also be your base.
The Investment Office offers an informal, dynamic environment with plenty of room for creativity, initiative, and personal development. Teamwork and open communication are key values.
Role and responsibilities
You’re analyzing the performance of a portfolio with consistent outperformance to determine whether this outperformance can be addressed to sustainability (NFI factor) or that there are other factors that can explain the outperformance.
How to succeed
To take on this challenging and rewarding opportunity, you’ll need:
- Superior knowledge of quantitative methods
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- High ambition and energy level
- Fluency in Dutch and English
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ING is a pioneer in digital banking and on the forefront as one of the most innovative banks in the world. As ING, we have a clear purpose that represents our conviction of people’s potential. We don’t judge, coach, or tell people how to live their lives. However big or small, modest or grand, we empower people and businesses to realise their vision for a better future. We made the promise to make banking frictionless, removing barriers to progress, and make people confident in their financial decisions. As a global bank we have a huge opportunity – and responsibility – to make an impact for the better. We can play a role by financing change, sharing knowledge, and innovating. Being sustainable is in all the choices we make—as a lender, as a partner and through the services we offer our customers
