Fixed Income Strategy
The Fixed Income Strategy group helps internal and external clients find profitable investment strategies.
J.P. Morgan hires PhD candidates in Fixed Income Strategy for our New York office. As an Associate, you will join a team and work on short-term projects that draw on the practical applications of your area of expertise. The results could be used by bankers for the benefit of clients, or by J.P. Morgan's proprietary traders. You will work closely with a manager in a stimulating and collegial environment.
About Fixed Income Strategy
On a day-to-day basis, our top-rated researchers follow the markets and identify trading opportunities, ideas, and themes. Underlying this is a continual development process of new models, analytics and approaches to valuation of different assets. The end goal is to uncover relative value trades that have a good chance of being profitable.
Responsibility from the start
As an Associate in Fixed Income Strategy, your responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
- Keeping abreast of market developments
- Developing client-oriented research on fixed-income cash and derivatives markets
- Generating timely trade ideas, both strategic and tactical
- Partaking in significant client interaction, including presentations
- Econometric modeling of fixed income markets
- Programming of models
In time, you will learn how to analyze the markets, talk to high-level clients, develop hedging strategies - and be in an excellent position to move to other parts of the firm. Through training, hands-on learning opportunities, continuous mentoring and feedback, as well as numerous development opportunities, you can advance toward your career goals.
Train for success
Our Fixed Income Strategy colleagues hit the ground running when they join. And through on-the-job training, you will continue to learn how to analyze the markets, talk to high-level clients, develop hedging strategies - and be in an excellent position to take your career to new heights. hands-on learning opportunities, continuous mentoring and feedback. Throughout your career, you have opportunities to participate in firm-wide development programs.
What we look for
The ideal candidate will have:
- Enrolled toward a PhD program in finance, economics, science, or a quantitative field such as mathematics
- Proficiency in C/C++ and/or VBA programming (knowledge of a statistical package such as SAS is a plus)
- Excellent presentation skills, both oral and written
- A strong interest in fixed income markets
If you don't have a strong financial or business background, be sure you can tell your story; be able to demonstrate your quantitative aptitude both academically and practically (former jobs, for example) and be ready to articulate how your background will enhance your career at J.P. Morgan (you'll find out more tips in our Advice Center including advice for career changers).
We also have full-time opportunities in our Proprietary Positioning Business
Proprietary Positioning Business (PPB) is an internal risk-taking group at J.P. Morgan that identifies and capitalizes on opportunities across a broad range of asset classes, instruments, and products including equities, currencies, commodities, interest rates and related derivatives and structured products in major global markets. The business is extremely active in seeking opportunities and expanding into new products and markets.
How to apply
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