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Investment Research - Summer 2024 Internship

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Acadian Asset Management

Nov 17, 2023

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Off-cycle Internship
  • Research & Development
    Banking & Finance
  • Boston

Requirements

  • Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in finance, math, computer science or other analytical discipline required
  • Programming experience required; working knowledge of Python, SQL, or similar languages preferred
  • Strong statistics and data management skills and a willingness to independently dissect, evaluate, and interpret results
  • Ability to translate qualitative intuition and insights into testable hypotheses
  • Motivation to learn quickly and formulate ideas independently
  • Superior written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work autonomously and in collaboration with other interns and investment professionals

Responsibilities

  • Conducting analysis of text data using various algorithmic approaches, e.g., reliably to extract and identify key entities
  • Assisting with portfolio oversight across different strategies, including risk management and attribution; researching better alpha transfer into portfolios
  • Writing code and analyzing data to test potential improvements to Acadian’s investment process
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Acadian Asset Management

Systematic investing built on 35+ years of data-driven insights. Equity, alts, macro, sustainable, low-vol strategies.

Finance
Industry
201-500
Employees
1986
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Acadian is a global investment manager that applies fundamental insights with a systematic lens to find attractive, unique investment opportunities across multi-asset class, ESG, alternative alpha, managed volatility, and long-only strategies. Our decisions are made using a cutting-edge array of disciplined, data-driven investment and portfolio construction techniques across stock-specific, macro, and peer forecasting models. In a world of data proliferation, meaningful conclusions can be difficult to reach. Our time-tested insights are built on over three decades of data and engineering, underpinned by the understanding that well documented, recurring behavioral errors drive irrational actions in financial markets. Structural challenges also limit market efficiency. Together, these factors create mispricing on a global scale. This is where we find our advantage. DISCLOSURE: Acadian Asset Management is not responsible for the content provided on any linked external site and makes no warranties, express or implied, for the accuracy of any content or use of a third-party website and assumes no liability for any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions for third-party website content. While Acadian is providing a link to a third-party website, Acadian does not control, approve, or endorse the website or any of its contents, its sponsor, or any of the policies, activities, products, or services offered on the site or by any advertiser on the site.