Trading Research Analyst
San Francisco, CA
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America’s largest money manager,
providing structured investment strategies such as indexing,
risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors
worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing
innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the
investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and winning first
place in the SF Business Times’ ”Best Places to Work in the Bay Area
2008” Awards (Large Companies category), the Barclays PLC subsidiary
employs over 3,700 people globally and manages approximately $2 trillion
in assets.
Overview
As one of the largest asset managers, BGI is a top-three holder in every
security resulting in the need to be extremely careful around how it
enters and exits investments so as not to move the market or erode its
alpha signals. BGI’s answer to this problem is its unique Global Trading
Research team and its implementation of electronic trading strategies.
We use a highly customized version of a third party vendor product
called FlexTrader to implement trading signals and strategies for the
equity and currency trading teams. This is a high profile group where
we are in a position to directly impact the performance of our funds by
providing tools for traders to make intelligent decisions on trade
timing and strategy. Working market hours and sitting on the trading
floor, Trading Research members are very close to the excitement of the
markets.
We are seeking a new member to join the real time analytics team to not
only help us support and enhance our electronic trading application, but
also to continue to develop innovative tools for our traders. We are
looking to expand across additional asset classes as well as expanding
the depth of our analytics, to implement automatic trading algorithms
using real time statistics on trading signals. The job requires a strong
technical background as well as a basic understanding of the equity
markets.
