Portfolio Manager, Quant Strategies

Job Description: Portfolio Manager, Quant Strategies

REQ-11710 in the subject line.

Job Description

Portfolio Manager as the leader of a small, collaborative team with a focus on equity and futures statistical arbitrage based in Asia

Location

Hong Kong, Singapore

Principal Responsibilities

• Manage a small investment team in developing systematic trading strategies, with a primary focus on driving: idea generation, data gathering and research/analysis, model implementation and backtesting for Asian equity or futures statistical arbitrage / systematic strategies
• Manage the production and risks of the strategies developed by the team and yourself
• Combine sound financial insights and statistical learning techniques to explore, analyze, and harness a large variety of datasets in order to build strong predictive models which will be deployed to the investment process
• Collaborate with the team in a transparent environment, engaging with the whole investment process

Preferred Technical Skills

• Strong research and programming skills
• Working knowledge of Matlab/Python and SQL are necessary
• Masters or PhD degree in a quantitative subject such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related field

Preferred Experience

• Proven, successful track record managing a high, mid or low frequency systematic trading strategy with a focus on equities and/or futures
• Successful experience trading in Chinese equity markets stat arb and/or equity index futures across Asian markets
• Demonstrated ability to manage team members
• Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research using large data sets

Highly Valued Relevant Experience

• 7+ years of professional experience in a systematic trading environment (prop desk or hedge fund)

• Product experience in statistical arbitrage strategies

Target Start Date

• As soon as possible