Quantitative Researcher

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives.

Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends more than $1.

8 billion to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments.

Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

For more information, please visit americancentury.com.

Global Analytics

The Global Analytics team is a shared resource across American Century conducting activities in support of our clients and investment teams.

We are currently looking for a quantitative researcher to join our dynamic team!

Major Responsibilities :

• Partner with portfolio managers on empirical research, develop qualitative signals, back test quantitative investment strategies, and develop investment solutions
• Build predictive models for global rates, global inflation, global currencies, global credits, sector rotation, equity factor rotation, fixed income relative value, and asset allocation
• Perform global macro research to identify emerging macroeconomic risks, trends, economic regimes, policy implications on capital markets and asset allocation
• Design and develop analytical tools to manage multi-asset strategies, target risk portfolios and performance analysis
• Actively collaborate investment teams and contribute to research, investment idea generation, product development and portfolio management

Education & Experience :

• Bachelor’s / Advanced degree in Financial Economics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Statistics or other quantitative disciplines
• 2-5 years of experience in a quantitative role within asset management of financial services
• Understanding of global capital markets, economic data, and macroeconomic interrelationships
• Experience in asset allocation, traditional and / or alternative investment strategies across different asset classes
• Advanced understanding of statistical techniques and time series / cross-sectional data modeling using Python, R, or similar
• Experience using Bloomberg, Factset and other portfolio management and data toolkits

Qualities :

• Practical approach to problem solving
• Strong economic intuition and investor mindset
• Understand of the pitfalls of models and question results
• Flourishes with change, works well with ambiguity, challenges status quo and strives for continuous improvement
• Curious, drives innovation, supports new ideas and can adapt to a range of situations
• Effectively communicates ideas, takes accountability for results and functions well in a team
• Models the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors : Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of complianceExhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors : Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.

For NY and CA based candidates, the salary range for this role is $120,000.00 - $140,000.00. Actual offers are based on various factors including but not limited to a candidate’s location, skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training.

This position is eligible for cash incentive providing the potential to earn more.

Additional Requirements :

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations.

As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.

ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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