Master’s Internship - Fund and Manager Research

PICTET

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Update day: 04-04-2024

Location: Genève Genève GE

Category: Internship / Entry level

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The Pictet Group is one of the world’s leading independent wealth and asset managers. Founded in 1805 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Group is represented in 27 offices in financial centers worldwide, currently employing over 5300 people.
Pictet Wealth Management combines more than 200 years of Swiss banking heritage with global investment expertise. The Partner-owned financial service group offers a comprehensive service for wealthy individuals and families including discretionary and advisory investment solutions and family office services.
We are seeking to recruit a Trainee (PWM Fund and Manager Research) who is keen to develop a quantitative algorithm to screen investment universes. You will work alongside long-only fund analysts. Your mission will be to search for relevant factors that have a predictive power for managers performance over various investment universes and time horizons.

Your role

  • Evaluate the predictive power of the existing proprietary quantitative algorithm for manager screening.
  • Search for additional factor that have a strong explicative power for manager screening.
  • Search the optimal time horizon for calculation of predictive variables.
  • Modify the existing algorithm to include new factors and/or adjust the time horizon.
  • Backtest the algorithm with additional factors over long-term and short-term periods.
  • Backtest and adjust the algorithm for various investment universes.

Your profile

  • Master’s student in Finance, Statistics or Data Science.
  • A keen interest in financial markets, empirical finance, data analytics and data visualisation.
  • Proficient in the usual IT tools (MS Office, Tableau, SQL, VBA; R, Python is a plus).
  • Strong communication skills, ability to work autonomously while being a team player.
  • Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, proactive and solution-oriented mind-set.
  • Ability to judge, analyse and work independently.
  • Perfect command of French and English.

Start date: 01.01.2024
Manager in charge: Sebastien Gentizon

Note

We will not accept any CVs via agencies

Diversity & Inclusion

Pictet is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. We respect all individuals and seek their inclusion in the workplace.
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Deadline: 19-05-2024

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