Associate Analyst – U.S. Economics

Requisition Number: 75496

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Role Summary

• 3–5-year structured program offering extensive training and mentoring, designed to develop future investment analysts 
• Daily opportunity to learn directly from our senior investment professionals 
• Expectation to provide insight and impact the investment process 
• Strong support for pursuing the CFA designation or other professional qualifications
• Competitive compensation with significant upside potential for high performers 
• Exceptional performers have the potential to be promoted within the Global Economics Team

 

Responsibilities

• Help build economic models/frameworks to inform the investment process of the Fixed Income platform. Projects would include but not be limited to creating in-house financial conditions measures and evaluating their effect on various economic indicators, build inflation and labor market forecasting capabilities, and analyze US private consumption trends. 
• Help build a framework for analyzing and modeling market indicators such as treasury yields and the US dollar. Analyze the interaction between economic variables and market measures of interest rates. 
• Explore alternative and high frequency data sources for various economic indicators as needed. Build dashboards to present and summarize data/model results to internal stakeholders. 
• Understand the depth and breadth of available US data through platforms such as Macrobond, Fred and Bloomberg in order to perform projects independently. 
• Work on add-hock requests and data analysis to support client interactions and internal stakeholders e.g. Portfolio managers, CIOs and portfolio specialists. Ad-hoc requests would include preparing scenario analysis for various economic projects, building presentations etc. 

 

Areas for Growth and Expansion of Responsibilities 

• Writing short commentary on data developments for distribution to internal stakeholders 
• Publishing analytical reports and presenting research conclusions in internal meetings.  
• Over time take over coverage of the Canadian economy 

 

Qualifications  

Required: 

• Bachelor’s Degree required with a strong academic background AND  
• 1-2 years relevant work experience 
• Experience in cross section and time series econometric analysis, strong coding skills in R and/or Python, Excel, Powerpoint etc. Familiarity with databases such as MacroBond, Bloomberg and Fred 

 

Preferred: 

• Strong academic background and intellectual curiosity 
• Highly motivated, confident self-starter with the ability to work independently and with others 
• Background and/or strong interest in economics preferred 
• Interest in economics and fixed income investing 
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written) 
• Intellectual curiosity and demonstrated ability to conduct in-depth thematic research across a broad spectrum of topics which can be additive to the investment process 
• Demonstrated ability to derive meaningful insights from in-depth research and analysis 
• Progress toward CFA designation is a plus 

FINRA Requirements

FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

Work Flexibility

This role is based in Baltimore, MD and is eligible for hybrid work, with up to one day per week from home.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status).

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