Senior Research Analyst
Company: Meketa Investment Group, Inc.
Location: Westwood, MA
Posted on: September 15, 2017
Job Description:
Will work directly with the Public Markets Manager Research team
and with client-focused investment analysts to provide investment manager
research. Will work directly with the Research team to develop and
communicate research and guidance to our consultants and clients. Will be
responsible for supporting members of the Public Markets Manager Research
team. Will be responsible for helping to source new investment opportunities,
monitoring existing client investments, and providing investment manager
research to the company's analysts and consultants, focusing on hedge fund
and commodities managers. Will develop and maintain quantitative
models for asset allocation and risk management (e.g., factor analysis).
Will conduct innovative research on a broad array of investment-related
topics (e.g., writi writing white papers). Will utilize investment and statistical
software progr programs to aid in the evaluation of client investment
structures and in the f the formulation of recommendations. Education and Experience: Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in economics, finance,
or statisti statistics and one year of experience providing investment
manager research focused focused on discretionary and systematic global macro, long short
equity and quantita quantitative hedge funds, and commodities managers. Special Requirements: * Demonstrated expertise (DE) analyzing sources of risk and
return, inf inflation hedging, and diversification characteristics of
commodity futures inv investments to provide asset allocation recommendations to
investment con consultants and clients. * DE analyzing factor exposures (i.e., alternative Betas) of
equity in investments and managers to provide asset allocation
recommendations to in investment consultants and clients. * DE analyzing quantitative hedge funds combining analysis of
risk and r return as well as equity factors and fixed income factors to
provide r recommendations to investment consultants and clients. * DE developing and maintaining quantitative models (using
Excel, R and/or Matlab Matlab) for asset allocation and risk management to develop
long-term re return and volatility estimates for a broad range of asset
classes in including domestic and international equities, traditional fixed
income and cr credit, real assets, commodities and hedge funds, among
others. * DE analyzing historical return and risk characteristics of
hedge fund s strategies, including convexity analyses and factor exposures
(i.e., a alternative Betas) to aid in the evaluation of client investment
structures a and in the formulation of allocation recommendations. * DE regularly monitoring discretionary and systematic global
macro and multi- strategy hedge funds and commodities managers to support
client i investments and ensure strategies continuously meet client
expectations and o objectives. * DE analyzing the combination of hedge fund strategies and
alternative betas into a program to achieve a client’s specific risk and
return goals i in constructing that portfolio. * Certification Requirements: CFA Charterholder and Level II
CAIA Candidate Applicant instructions: Email resumes -- with reference to job
code LHRO -- to Recruiting@meketagroup.com to Recruiting@meketagroup.com
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