Quant Researcher

Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.

Develop and improve quantitative investment strategies in equity markets within the Strategic Alpha Research team (SAR). Work across the full research lifecycle – from idea generation and data sourcing, through signal construction and testing, to portfolio construction and trade execution – supporting both new and existing strategies. The responsibilities include:

Identifying new investment ideas or innovative data sources;

Sourcing, gathering and refining complex data for modeling;

Coding and performing statistical/ML analysis to build, test and refine predictive models;

Interpreting, presenting, and implementing the results;

Conducting research on various implementation aspects of investment strategies such as trading cost models, risk models, optimization, and portfolio construction.

Contributing to the firm’s broader research agenda by collaborating with adjacent research teams, such as fixed income and macro, to share techniques, data and insights.

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance/Economics or related quantitative field