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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

Keywords: Meketa Investment Group, Inc., Cambridge , Senior Research Analyst, Other , Westwood, MA, Massachusetts


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