Bridgewater Associates

Portfolio Associate

Bridgewater Associates$140K — $220K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-year degree from a recognized institution
  • Minimum of 3 years experience in investment banking or asset management
  • Strong understanding of portfolio construction and risk management techniques
  • Analytical, logical, and structured thinking skills
  • Deep interest in financial markets

Responsibilities

  • Execute daily systematized investment logic for portfolio generation
  • Communicate portfolio status to senior investment teams
  • Collaborate with technologists and researchers on investment systems
  • Drive initiatives for improving system quality and efficiency
  • Evolve best practices within the investment community

Benefits

  • Comprehensive suite of competitive benefits
  • Training programs including classes and mentorship
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement
  • Structured pathway to take ownership of complex processes and systems
Full Job Description
About Your Role
  • You will operate the systematized investment logic we use to create ideal portfolios for our clients.
  • You will oversee a set of processes that ingests updated market data along with our view from our research department, applies portfolio construction logic, risk controls, and client specific constraints to determine those ideal portfolios.
  • You will oversee our logic for choosing which instruments we want to hold and then deliver the set of trades necessary to implement our portfolios to our trading department.
  • You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessment to a diverse group of people, including senior investment managers, traders, and developers.
  • You will partner with technologists and researchers to constantly improve our processes, focusing on increasing efficiency or the implementation of new logic or portfolios.

You will drive the following responsibilities:
  • Executing and overseeing the systematized logic we use to generate client portfolios and trades every day
  • Understanding and effectively communicating the state of those portfolios to our senior investment teams and CIOs
  • Working with technologists and researchers to construct new investment implementation systems or overhaul old ones
  • Driving initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the systems you own
  • Evolving the methods and best practices used by the broader investment community

You will be a click for the role if you:
  • Are analytical, highly logical, and structured
  • Are deeply interested in understanding financial markets
  • Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems
  • Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do

Minimum Qualifications:
  • 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution
  • 3+ years of relevant work experience at an investment bank or asset management firm
  • Experience with portfolio construction and risk management techniques

Physical Requirements

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport, CT campus.

Compensation Band:
  • The wage range for this role is $140,000 - $220,000 base salary with an additional discretionary target bonus.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits.

Explore more information about Bridgewater's benefits on our website here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

About Bridgewater Associates

Bridgewater Associates is an investment management firm that manages approximately $140 billion in assets for institutional clients and high net worth individuals. The firm is known for its unique investment philosophy, which is based on a set of principles known as 'radical transparency.' Bridgewater's investment approach is focused on macroeconomic trends and uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify investment opportunities. The firm's clients include pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.
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