Smartkarma
Financial Services
IndependentQuantitativeAnalyst
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“Independent Quantitative Analyst at Smartkarma. Skills: quantitative analysis, statistical learning, model development, data analysis, investment research. create and maintain differentiated proprietary datasets and models. offer a high-touch service for select institutional clients”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver repeatable
Industry & Context.
Ability to combine market intuition with statistical learning
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Extensive research, trading or investment experience for institutional clients (8 yrs+), Demonstrated quantitative track record and evidence of proprietary work (datasets, models, tooling, strategy research), Ability to write differentiated insights for professional investors (structured, concise, defensible)
What You'll Do.
create and maintain differentiated proprietary datasets and models
offer a high-touch service for select institutional clients
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
discussions with institutional
Communication Scope
writing and communication skills; able to articulate and defend research views clearly in published insights and in discussions with institutional; Ability to write differentiated insights for professional investors (structured, concise, defensible)
Full Job Description
Smartkarma connects independent investment research analysts to institutional asset managers, such as sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, pension funds, boutiques and family offices. Smartkarma’s cloud-based platform leverages the latest in technology to provide a network for independent research analysts to curate and monetize research in an innovative and new way. * Independent analysts covering more than 4,000 companies now contribute to Smartkarma’s cloud-based platform. * Insights are published daily with active minute-by-minute discussions, where themes and ideas are debated, discussed and questioned among a community of experts, in real time. * Over 200 leading institutional asset managers have subscribed, including sovereign wealth funds, global asset managers, hedge funds, boutiques and family offices, worldwide. * Our top 10 clients alone have over $14 trillion under management. Our investors include Sequoia Capital, Singapore Exchange (SGX), Wavemaker Partners, Jungle Ventures and Spring Seed. Only applications on Smartkarma's website (https://www.smartkarma.com/home/insight-providers/) will be accepted. In general, looking for former/current systematic traders and quant researchers / analysts: * Experts in systematic strategies across equities, equity derivatives and multi-asset (index and single-name listed and OTC options, futures, etc); * Strong research hygiene: signal research, feature engineering, robust backtesting across horizons, realistic frictions and clear validation; * Ability to combine market intuition with statistical learning to create and maintain differentiated proprietary datasets and models (unique data collection, cleaning, normalisation, mapping, signal construction and production pipelines) that are hard to replicate and deliver repeatable edge; * Strong writing and communication skills: able to articulate and defend research views clearly in published insights and in discussions with institutional clients; Example of deliverable
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