Quantitative Analyst, New Product Development

Morningstar Indexes: http://indexes.morningstar.com

Position: Quantitative Analyst – New Product Development – Morningstar Indexes

The Area: Morningstar Indexes Team leverages its expertise in equity research, manager research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction to create innovative investment solutions.

It uses Morningstar’s intellectual property to create indexes that empower investors to achieve their goals at every stage of the investment process - market monitoring, benchmarking, and asset allocation.

The unit offers a broad suite of global equity, bond, commodity and asset allocation indexes.

The Role: As a part of the Indexes New Product Development Team, you will participate in the full development cycle including ideation, design, development, presentations to global research team and clients, leading up to implementation.

The ideal candidate will have a good grasp of investment concepts, possess strong analytical skills, good communication skills.

This position is based in our Navi Mumbai office.

The successful candidate will:

• Collaborate effectively with Morningstar research organization including equity, quantitative, manager or sustainability research teams, and product management to develop novel thematic and smart beta indexes that leverage Morningstar IP.
• Work on the entire product development lifecycle from ideation, design, development, and validation, leading up to launch.
• Work closely with other index teams to operationalize index methodologies.
• Develop new tools and capabilities to perform portfolio construction or analytics independently, including the use of statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Publish white papers, factsheets, client presentations, and other collateral to support go-to-market plans.