Quantitative Research Intern

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.

Description

The Global Fixed Income Group at American Century Investments is looking for a sharp, critical thinker with a passion for investing, analysis, coding and big datasets. The work you do will directly contribute to enhancing the team’s research capabilities and security selection algorithms.

In this role, you will

• Be mentored by a quantitative researcher and interact closely with a dynamic group of quantitative investment professionals.
• Lead a project aimed at improving our existing investment approach and/or analyze new opportunities.
• Gain real-world experience by working with a variety of financial datasets.
  
  

Qualifications

• Rising senior undergraduate student majoring in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, or other related disciplines.
• Understanding of, and interest in, global capital markets and investing.
• Coding experience is a must. Knowledge of Python or R is preferred.
• Experience with large-scale company financial data is strongly preferred.
• Ability to communicate technical findings and work within a team environment.
• Most of all, we are looking for someone who is curious and eager to learn about data-driven underpinnings of quantitative investing, and all the fun and challenging problems that go along with it.
  
  

Here's Why You Should Choose ACI:

• Our interns receive competitive pay! As well as 401k eligibility for contributions
• We offer a Mentor Program: a designated mentor will be assigned to you during your time with us to provide career coaching and mentorship
• Access to Business Resource Groups that you can ally and participate with (Accelerate, Charlie Mike, Emerging Professionals, Enable, Pride, Mosaic)
• Casual dress code - you can be comfortable and express your unique self
• A robust social and philanthropic calendar of events hosted just for interns!
  
  

Internship Structure:

• 10 Week Program
• 40 hours a week, between 8am-5pm.
• Location: New York, NY
  
  

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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