Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC is a well-established financial services company, and they are seeking an Associate Investment Research Analyst to join their Structured Products Research team. This role involves conducting in-depth research on structured credit markets to contribute to the investment process and support the management of over $69 billion in assets.
Responsibilities
- Develop investment skills and abilities for primary research responsibility of one or more Structured Product sectors
- Interact with issuers and dealers, attending meetings and conferences as needed
- Combine quantitative and qualitative research to form forward-looking investment views
- Gather, manipulate, and store large amounts of data for analysis of investment opportunities
- Complete on-going surveillance of portfolio holdings to assess credit performance
- Build and maintain relationships with multiple sell-side parties
- Propose and contribute to independent and group research projects
- Contribute to team discussions focused on investment opportunities and performance
- Complete ad hoc projects at the direction of senior analysts and portfolio managers
- Automate tasks to improve efficiency of investment process
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in finance, economics, mathematics, engineering, or a related field with a strong academic record
- 0-2 years of experience in structured products, securitized credit, fixed income research, trading, or risk
- Acute attention to detail, strong analytical and quantitative skills, and a proven ability to distill practical answers from large amounts of data
- Self-starter with an ability to manage multiple responsibilities and meet time-sensitive deadlines, often with vague or unclear directions
- Passion for investments and financial markets with an explicit interest in fixed income and structured products
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated experience collaborating effectively across teams and with clients
- Programming experience in any language
- Familiarity with a variety of AI applications and tools
- Ability to scrub and query data from database systems using SQL
- Progress toward, willingness-to-complete, or completion of the CFA designation
Benefits
- Vacation time
- Sick time
- 401(k)
- Health, dental and life insurances
Company Overview
At Ameriprise Financial, we have been helping people feel more confident about their financial future for over 130 years. It was founded in 1990, and is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.kpsinc.net.