American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
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Overview – Job Summary
The Quantitative Analyst will be fully embedded within the U.S. Midcap Growth investment team working to combine quantitative with fundamental analysis to deliver performance. The team employs a fundamentally driven stock selection model to assess company quality, valuation, and growth characteristics that is under perpetual development. Researching and updating portfolio manager and analyst insights is integral to the model’s long-term efficacy. Factor as well as stock specific risk modeling will also be an ongoing workflow for team risk awareness and trading support. The analyst will also work closely with the team’s client portfolio manager to support client communication in order to drive asset growth in Midcap Growth strategies.
Major responsibilities:
Quantitative Research and Modeling
- Partner with portfolio managers and analysts on researching new strategies, back-testing investment ideas and enhancing investment process to deliver alpha.
- Assist in the development and generation of investment ideas by both utilizing fundamental analysis and creating incremental quantitative reports that identify potentially attractive stocks.
- Build and maintain empirical models for stock selection and portfolio construction in collaboration with investment team.
- Perform risk & return analysis to understand drivers of results and identify opportunities to improve risk-adjusted returns across Midcap Growth strategies.
- Design analytical tools for managing unintended portfolio risk exposures, evaluate liquidity risks and perform scenario analysis.
Fundamental Research
- Fundamental analysis of individual companies including reading company documents, synthesizing research, and communicating investment ideas.
- Build multi-year financial models to determine appropriate valuations under various scenarios.
- Provide risk management input to portfolio construction and implementation.
- Meeting with management teams or investor relations professionals to increase knowledge of companies under coverage.
- Communicate findings of research to Portfolio Managers.
Competencies:
- Practical approach to problem solving.
- Strong economic intuition and investor mindset.
- Understanding of the pitfalls of quantitative models and simulation results.
- Thrives on change, ambiguity, challenge status quo and strives for continuous improvement.
- Curious, drives innovation, supports new ideas and can adapt to a range of situations.
- Effectively communicates ideas, takes accountability for results and functions well in a team.
- Ability to work in a team-oriented fast-paced environment while being able to prioritize projects.
- Models the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and supports a culture of compliance.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Statistics or other quantitative disciplines. Advanced degrees such as Masters or Ph.D and CFA certification preferred.
- 2-5 years of equity investment analyst or quantitative analyst experience in the investment management business is required.
- Advanced understanding of statistical techniques and time series/cross-sectional analysis using Python, R or MatLab is required.
- Advanced Super User of FactSet as a primary data source and other data toolkits is required.
- Experience required with Barra, Axioma, or Northgate.
- High-level understanding of fundamental” bottom-up” company analysis of companies in various sectors.
- Depth of investment insight to effectively communicate externally as an extension of the portfolio management team.
- Marketplace credibility to represent investment strategies as well as the organize effective client and consultant engagements.
- Strong client communication skills in delivering asset solutions to institutional clients.
- Prior experience performing deep quantitative analysis strongly preferred. Experience performing detailed fundamental analysis of equities is a plus.
For New York and California based candidates, the salary range for this role is $135K - $165K. Actual offers are based on various factors including but not limited to a candidate’s location, skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. This position is eligible for cash incentive providing the potential to earn more.
Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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What We Do
American Century Investments® is a leading asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve health and save lives. It’s how we help our clients Prosper With Purpose™.
Every day people are increasingly focused on investing to make the world a better place for themselves, their families, their organizations, and the world at large. It is possible to live a more meaningful and impactful life and give back something that’s more valuable than money.
When you invest with us, you can also invest in the future of others and have the potential to impact the lives of millions. That’s possible because of the distinct relationship with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, which owns more than 40% of American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide the ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
Together we can become a powerful force for good…it’s like nothing you’ve seen before from an investment management firm.
