Senior Associate – Quantitative Investment Strategies_ Institutional Equity Division

The Quantitative Investment Strategies business at Morgan Stanley sits within the Institutional Securities Group with a cross-asset mandate and is a global multi-function team consisting of dedicated Research, Structuring, Strats, and Trading. The mandate of the group is to design quantitative systematic strategies that can be offered to the firm's clients to access in a variety of formats. Responsibilities for this role would involve: Work on new equity and multi-asset index development - back testing, coding, tweaking codes etc. Development of processes to improve index support, e.g. scripts to aid debugging, index code refactoring and standardization Index oversight - Daily monitoring of the complex indices & resolving calculation issues (data problems, calendar errors, common code errors etc.) Overseeing Index rebalance processes for client directed strategies Making modifications in existing live indices e.g. new cost structures, universe changes, minor methodology adjustments Index Description drafting for minor adjustments, Repeat Index Launch Form completion Carrying out performance attribution of systematic strategies Production of periodic standard performance reporting for client distribution Development and production of position, stress, composition reports for clients Bespoke scenario/sensitivity analysis for clients

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