Equity Research Analyst

Our focused Equity group is looking to hire an experienced Fundamental Equity Research Analyst to join the team in support of their Quality strategy. The Quality strategy seeks to invest conservatively with a long horizon in businesses with a demonstrable competitive advantage that can redeploy capital productively and that trade at prudent valuations. The successful candidate will have deep knowledge and ability to select stocks within some sector of global equity markets and will have the breadth of ability to function as a generalist covering multiple sectors in varying degrees of detail. The analyst will be expected to be a creative and critical thinker with an ability to generate innovative investment ideas.
Responsibilities:

• Conduct differentiated fundamental research
• Build financial models
• Cover current portfolio positions in multiple sectors and research new ideas
• Make recommendations to the portfolio managers

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 5+ years of work experience related to equity research
• Proven skill at fundamental analysis
• Must be detail oriented self-starter, able to prioritize work, and manage multiple tasks and deadlines
• Must work well collaboratively in a small team atmosphere
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• A willingness to take decisive views, even unpopular ones, coupled with the ability to comfortably move on with group decisions
• Experience with or ability to quickly learn standard software used for financial analysis (e.g., Bloomberg, Excel, Matlab)

Useful Skills:

• Knowledge of particular sectors or stocks emphasized in the Quality strategy
• Familiarity with non-US equity markets
• Technology sector expertise
• Quantitative skills (computer programming, statistics, etc.)
  
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