Smartkarma
Independent Quantitative Analyst
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About the Role
Conducting Investment Research & Developing Proprietary Strategies Position: Quantitative Research Analyst* at Smartkarma Smartkarma connects independent investment research analysts to institutional asset managers, including:
- Sopverign wealth funds
- Hedge funds
- Pension funds
- Boutiques
- Family offices
Our mission? To power an innovative network where over 4,500+ independent analysts collaborate, share insights, and drive actionable intelligence for our global institutional client base, with over 200+ subscribers managing combined assets of $14+ trillion.
Our platform facilitates daily research publication, active real-time discussion, and rigorous analysis across 4,000+ covered companies. We embed technologically advanced solutions to democratise institutional-grade insights, enabling expertise elevation while rewarding creators.
Position Overview
Smartkarma is seeking exceptional systematic traders and quant researchers/analysts with expertise in building and deploying differentiable, statistically supported strategies. We are looking for individuals who possess a keen market intuition, can blend technical rigor with intuitive investment edge, and thrive in the high-interaction environment where discussion delivers deeper insights.
Primary responsibilities include:
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Developing Original Proprietary Research
- Constructing executable trading and investment frameworks grounded in validated signals.
- Generating differentiated insights across equities, equity derivatives, and multi-assets (including indices, single-name and OTC options, futures).
- Diagnosing and quantifying sources of alpha with a focus on adversarial risk models, friction estimates, and economic consistency.
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Honing Statistical Methodology
- Mastering research hygiene, including data collection, cleaning, normalisation, and signal construction.
- Ensuring high-quality model validation across horizons with absorption of realistic frictions.
- Maintaining investment-edge reproducibility by methodologically evolving datasets.
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Engaging with Core Clients One-on-One
- Serving as a high-touch consultant for select institutional clients, requiring sophistication in translating technical spiking to actionable, defence-ready trading set-ups.
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Exemplary Research Communication
- Articulating complex theoretical and quantitative insights with clarity and conviction across public/subscribed outputs.
- Actively contributing to live, wide-parameters analyses around:
- Sector/seven, macroeconomic, and regime-driven insights
- Disruptive corporate events (earnings, guidance, corporate actions, index changes)
- Empirical quant edge factor/risk premia/nourishment.
Key Deliverables
1. Statistical Rigour Meets Edge Discovery
- Rigorously derive and validate strategy frameworks suited to varying market conditions (risk-on/off, rates sensitivity, inflation, liquidity tremor).
- Backtest all solutions under adversarial scenarios, factoring in genuine frictions and fatigue adjustments.
2. Differentiated Investment Artefacts
- Provide actionable trade ideas with clear pre-positioning logic aligned to measurably Unique Edge (UE) frameworks.
- Combine presentation fabrications (ex ante) with empirical argument harness.
3. Regime Specialisation
- Build frameworks for regime-sensitivity analysis, positioning, and flow chases.
- Specify market structure shifts across OTC/equity markets distinguishing trading edge relevance.
4. Thought Leadership in Institutional Demand
- Ensuring content resilience as a reviewer for topics expected to sustain demand (merger/acquisition signals, M&A distress assets to reveal macro sensitivity niches).
5. Client-Centric Solutioning
- Serve an elite class of High-Net-Worth (HNW)-focused private clients, mar着 determination with self-validation trading risk across an evolving investment horizon.
- Advanced iteration capability informed by institutional SME feedback, refining trends into coming consumer/buy-side signals.
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Requirements
We seek:
1. Quant Research & Trading Experience
- 8+ years in institutional trading, systematic research or quant investment analysis.
- Ready-made evidence to accompany datasets, models, tools, or papers—discuss at profile construction stage.
2. Demonstrable Proprietary Rigour
- Portfolio-building experience which surpasses benchmark consistency, with answers to: Are your respective analytics resistant? Does your Investment Team TLR (Trading/Leveraged Resilience) cover? Do equities pose Exhibit Fat?
- Relationships or past parallels capturing peer-effect freq’ing mantra translation.
3. Standout Communication Clarity
- A demonstrated talent for distilling applied financial concepts into an amiable presentation.
- Compelling narrative that bridges technical expectations with institutional requirement fluency.
4. Work Proficieny
- Consensus strong with active listening, ensuring stakeholder interaction consistency.
- Exterior reads based on insights delivered enhance understanding towards transformative concepts.
Our Select Clients & Culture
- Our top 10 institutional subscribers manage over $14 trillion in combined assets.
- Investors backing us include Sequoia Capital (US), Wavemaker Partners (UK), Spring Seed (Singapore), SGX (Singapore Listed Securities Company) among others.
- Elvenates insights
- All output is privacy-sensitive per Equal Employment Opportunity guidelines.
Where to Apply
Only applications submitted via Smartkarma’s website (www.smartkarma.com/home/insight-providers/) will be considered.
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