Research Analyst Job

[Pack, Jaime BGI SF]

 

Research Analyst, GIMG Research & Analytics

San Francisco, CA

 

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and named one of the SF Business Times' ''Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2007, '' the Barclays PLC subsidiary employs over 3,500 people globally and manages $2 trillion in assets.

 

 

Overview

 

The Global Index and Markets Group (GIMG) is responsible for managing BGI’s index strategies, cash portfolios, and securities lending product sets. We are looking for a highly motivated Research Analyst passionately interested in investments and finance. The successful candidate will have demonstrated an extraordinary aptitude for applying economic ideas and scientific methods to investment problems. He/she will provide research and analysis for non-traditional index strategies.

 

 

Responsibilities

 

·                     Support efforts to generate well thought out, thoroughly researched non-traditional index strategies.

·                     Conduct empirical research into the return, risk and correlations associated with various proposed investment strategies.

·                     Identify data sources, gather and check data, construct repositories of data for research purposes.

·                     Work with teams throughout organization to commercialize product ideas.

 

 

Qualifications

 

·                     Excellent quantitative skills, including formal training in econometrics or statistics, and demonstrated success in applying these skills in a research context.

·                     Strong academic training (graduate level, up to and including Ph.D.) in finance/economics.

·                     Experience, aptitude and success working with large datasets and statistical software such as SAS or Matlab.

·                     Minimum two years work experience (buy side experience preferred).

 

To apply, upload a Word or PDF resume to the following URL:

 

https://barclays.recruitmax.com//main/careerportal/candidate_update.cfm?szOrderID=3128

 

 

Regards,

 

Jaime

Please connect with me via LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimepack

 

Jaime Pack

Recruiting Specialist

Human Resources

Barclays Global Investors

(: [phone] (office)

6: [phone] (fax)

45 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

 

 

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