Independent Quantitative Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Hong Kong, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Investigate and formulate systematic strategies across equities, equity derivatives, and multi-asset products.

• Perform signal research, feature engineering, backtesting, and validation while considering realistic trading frictions.

• Develop and manage proprietary datasets, quantitative models, tools, and production pipelines.

• Generate actionable trade and investment recommendations based on statistically validated signals and market insights.

• Execute research on factors, risk premia, and alpha.

• Create frameworks for event-driven and catalyst analysis, encompassing earnings, guidance, corporate actions, index modifications, and macroeconomic indicators.

• Assess cross-asset connections and market regimes, including risk-on/off scenarios, inflation, sensitivity to rates, liquidity, positioning, and flows.

• Clearly express and defend research perspectives in published insights and during discussions with institutional clients.

• Deliver high-touch service to a select group of institutional clients.

⛳️ Requirements

• Previous or current experience as a systematic trader or quantitative researcher/analyst.

• Proficient in systematic strategies across equities, equity derivatives, and multi-asset products, including listed and OTC options and futures.

• Strong adherence to research hygiene, encompassing signal research, feature engineering, and robust backtesting across various horizons, with realistic frictions and clear validation.

• Capability to merge market intuition with statistical learning.

• Skill in creating and sustaining unique proprietary datasets and models.

• Experience in data collection, cleaning, normalization, mapping, signal construction, and production pipelines.

• Excellent writing and communication abilities.

• Extensive research, trading, or investment experience with institutional clients (8+ years).

• Proven quantitative track record and evidence of proprietary work, including datasets, models, tools, and strategy research.

• Proficient in crafting unique insights for professional investors that are structured, concise, and defensible.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely.

• High-touch service provided for select institutional clients.

• Confidential handling of information in accordance with EEO guidelines.