Institutional Equity Division – Associate, ETF Quant Strategist

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From global institutions to hedge funds, investors come to Morgan Stanley for sales, trading, and market-making services in almost every type of financial instrument in all the world’s financial markets. Morgan Stanley professionals use our network and technology to provide liquidity and sophisticated analysis, to manage risk and execute reliably in the fast-changing markets.

Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division (IED) is a world leader in the origination, distribution and trading of equity, equity-linked and equity-derivative securities. Our broad and deep client relationships, market-leading platform and intellectual insights enable us to be a world-class service provider to our clients for their financing, market access and portfolio management needs.

Global Markets Group is the offshoring arm of Morgan Stanley’s Sales & Trading businesses in India. It covers functions across IED ranging from those associated with sales, trading, analytics, strats to risk management.

Morgan Stanley's Institutional Equity Division is looking for a junior strategist/quantitative analyst for its ETF market making strat team. Strategists are key participants, together with traders and salespeople, in the revenue-generating activities of our Sales & Trading Division. Strategists are the primary quant modelers for new products, and team with the traders to deliver innovative ideas using models to analyse risks and opportunities in the complex ETF market.

ETF market making strats are responsible for implementing and supporting both the data and ETF pricing models used in ETF trading. They also look after systematic market making processes, maintaining and conducting research on ways to improve various aspects of managing the systematic market making book, including but not limited to cost models, RFQ charging models, portfolio optimization, etc. They are also heavily involved in the idea generation, research, and backtest of trading strategies in the space of ETF and other macro products.

• Develop clean, well-designed, and reusable code to backtest trading strategies
• Build tools to enhance the management of systematic market making book
• Generate visualization of research and backtest results to support real-time decision making of the ETF trading desk
• Work on sophisticated models to help traders accurately assess ETF risk and values
• Collaborate closely with the ETF trading desk to support daily data and analytics needs

• An advanced degree in a quantitative subject such as Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Software Engineering is mandatory
• Strong quantitative skills; knowledge of ETF/macro products and financing rate is a plus
• Proficiency in probability, statistics, linear regression and other core modeling methods. Familiarity with machine learning models and convex optimization is a strong plus
• Strong programming skills in an object oriented language (Java, Python, or C++)
• Drive and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English

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