The Role
About Lord Abbett
Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett is an independent firm with a singular focus on the management of money. Over the course of our history, we’ve earned a sterling reputation for our leadership, influence, and innovation in the asset management industry. Today, our independent perspective, our commitment to active management, and our intelligent product design continue to make us relevant to individual and institutional investors.
From the very beginning, we’ve recognized that our people are our greatest asset. As an investment-led, investor-focused firm, we value intellectual curiosity, teamwork, and collaboration across the organization.
We’re looking for people with a keen interest in working for a trusted leader in the asset management industry, a desire to expand their knowledge, and a passion for delivering a client experience that exceeds expectations.
Now that you know our history, are you ready to be part of our future?
Job Overview
Lord Abbett is looking for a quantitative analyst to work with a highly respected team of seasoned quants to apply, extend, and maintain our suite of proprietary tools for analyzing our investment strategies’ positioning in terms of risk factor exposures, sector/asset allocation, tracking error and expected return targets. This role will also be highly involved in crafting solutions for institutional clients and designing new products and strategies. The team’s coverage focuses on fixed income and alternatives, but also includes equities and multi-asset class strategies. The team also manages a derivatives book to hedge the firm’s seed capital investments and runs quantitative analysis of competitor funds and peer groups. This front-office role will interface directly with portfolio managers and leaders in client services, having a visible impact on how portfolios are invested. This role is a great opportunity for a talented programmer with an analytical bent to evolve and to impact the investment process.
We’ll Trust You To
- Understand, maintain, improve, and build upon cutting-edge quantitative tools essential to the investment process.
- Work with the quantitative research team, portfolio managers, and client services to develop bespoke customizations of our strategies based on client needs.
- Implement proprietary analytics based on statistics, optimization, risk/return analysis, and the needs of our clients. Present your results to investments team stakeholders, client services, and directly to clients.
- Participate in the development and maintenance of the group’s proprietary infrastructure, generating daily updates of our models and analytics.
- Develop models and tools providing actionable recommendations which improve the risk-adjusted returns of our strategies.
You'll Need To Have
- Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (computer science, engineering, finance, economics, etc.).
- 2-5 years of independent research or developer experience, preferable in a quantitative finance or risk management role.
- Strong hands-on experience with scientific programming (e.g., python, Matlab, R) and version control (git) in a collaborative setting.
- Intimate familiarity with programming design, testing, and debugging. A proponent of collaborate software engineering techniques and methods including code reviews, unit testing, refactoring, and related approaches. Knowledge of scientific data analysis methods (visualization, tidy data, joining data sets, fundamentals of SQL).
- Experience working with financial data providers (Bloomberg, FactSet, Morningstar, ICE, JPMorgan DataQuery) is a plus.
- Passion for the financial markets and investment management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both spoken and written.
Why Lord Abbett?
Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.
- Principles-Led - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
- Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
- Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.
We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments and scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.
Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $150,000 - $175,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.
Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance.
Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett
Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.
Important notice to Search Firms - Please Read Carefully
Without prior written agreement, Lord Abbett does not accept unsolicited submissions from employment agencies, search firms, placement services, or any similar provider (“Search Firms”) for employment opportunities. All candidates submitted by Search Firms to any employee or partner at our company without a written Search Firm agreement in place will be deemed the sole property of our company. In such circumstances, no fee, commission, or other compensation will be paid to such Search Firm in the event a candidate is hired by our company. To the extent a Search Firm has a written agreement in place, all introductions are position specific and should be directed to HR or the hiring manager, so we kindly request no unsolicited phone calls or emails.
