Client Investment Research Analyst, Investor Relations Team

New York City

About the Client Service Department

The goal of Client Service is to build and grow meaningful relationships with the world’s largest, most sophisticated investors and help clients achieve their goals through high quality return streams and tailored insights. To this end, we deeply understand the global pools of capital, develop strategies to effectively develop relationships, and partner with clients on their most difficult investment and portfolio construction problems.

We help our clients broaden their understanding of our investment process, strategies and performance as well as deepen their understanding of financial markets more generally.

About Your Role

Client Investment Research Analysts play a vital role in service of Bridgewater’s overall client service strategy across our front office departments – the Alpha Engine, Total Portfolio Strategies, and Client Service. Analysts act as the primary support to Bridgewater’s Strategists, a small group of senior investors appointed by Bridgewater’s co-CIOs to partner directly with our clients on their most important Research priorities.

Day-to-day work includes collaborating with Strategists, Client Advisors, asset class teams, and our CIOs to define approaches on how to handle different client-focused research projects and execute on them through research, analysis, and project management, culminating in novel investment insights that informs out clients’ thinking. From their unique position at the heart of Bridgewater’s client-focused research activity, these individuals have an aerial view into our ever-evolving perspectives on world markets, high-impact company-wide projects and our investment philosophy and processes.

Bridgewater’s market-driven approach to client service requires our Analysts to continually expand their understanding and knowledge of the markets. Through formal training and informal on-the-job instruction, Analysts become well-versed in our investment approach, process and different strategies, our book of business, and our production systems.

As a Client Investment Research Analyst for the Investor Relations team, you will partner with Client Advisors and Strategists to provide clients with insights and advice to address their questions about Bridgewater’s strategies, performance, and portfolio positions. You will also be exposed to the full breadth of Bridgewater strategies, regularly working with different types of content and project managing across pillars and disciplines.

Successful Client Investment Research Analysts will:

• Develop a holistic understanding of portfolios and portfolio management principles
• Understand the depth and breadth of Bridgewater’s market knowledge as well as its pioneering work in institutional asset management and alpha and beta separation
• Contribute to Bridgewater’s world-class client service strategy through creative thinking about how to generate insights and convey key messages to our clients about our investment philosophy, strategies, performance and outlook in the markets.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Understand Bridgewater’s book of business, related commercial strategy and our investment thinking
• Strategize with Client Advisors, other Research teams and investment professionals (at times including CIOs and other Sr. Researchers) and help develop best approach to handle client requests, enable high quality client engagements
• Apply analytical skills, market knowledge, and an understanding of Bridgewater’s investment methodology to create insights to help shape clients’ investment thinking or deliver client-ready portfolio position and performance reports to allow our Client Advisors, Investment…