Quantitative Equity Analyst - Asset Management London, England
Job description
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Retail Banking and Wealth Management serves more than 50 million customers worldwide with a complete range of banking and wealth management services to enable them to manage their finances and protect and build their financial futures. It is a global business that brings together management responsibility for Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Insurance and Asset Management with a focus on customer-centric propositions and innovative and efficient distribution channels.
Role Purpose
The role requires the successful candidate to work on the Active Equity platform in London using quantitative methods to assist with investment research, portfolio construction and risk management of all strategies. The role will report to the Head of Active Equities Research. The Active Equities platform consists of a number of strategies spanning Global and Global Emerging Markets located in a number of global and regional locations including London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analysis of the level and distribution of risk in active equity portfolios.
To provide assistance with decision support for potential portfolio changes.
Scenario analysis to determine portfolio sensitivity to specific market conditions or events.
To work closely with portfolio managers on the ongoing enhancement of the active equity processes.
Performance of additional research as required within the Developed Market or Emerging Market universe.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Have a strong background in financial quantitative methods
- Extensive experience in a Quantitative Research role, ideally assessing Active Equities.
- Working knowledge of fundamental equity analysis, and believe in the link between company profitability and stock valuation
- Ability to find links between quantitative analysis and fundamental analysis
- Experience of applying appropriate quantitative methods to active equity strategies
- Be able to communicate clearly, and explain quantitative ideas to non-quantitative colleagues, and fundamental concepts to quantitative colleagues.
- Be comfortable sourcing, checking and working with large volumes of data.
- Experience using Bloomberg
- Coding skills (e.g. VBA, C++, Python, R)
- At least partial completion of the CFA programme.
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At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.
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