Multi Asset Strategist, Assistant Vice President

Junior Multi-Asset Strategist

The role of the Multi-Asset strategy team is to support the growth in State Street's Markets business. It combines our unique capabilities in data and analytics to better serve our clients and build relationships with new customers. The aim of the group is to create a full spectrum of proprietary indicators, tools and ideas that enable our clients to identify opportunities, develop new perspectives and make more informed investment decisions in the global asset markets. The Junior Multi-Asset Strategist will be based in Boston, and the key responsibility will be to provide research support for the Boston strategy team.

This role can be performed in a light hybrid model, where you can balance work from home and office to match your needs and role requirements. However, four day a week office attendance is a requirement.

The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Markets (SSM). When owners and managers of institutional assets need research, trading, securities lending and innovative portfolio strategies, they turn to SSM. As our investment research and trading arm, SSM's number one goal is to enhance and preserve our clients' portfolio values by applying technology, optimizing trading, and linking asset classes and markets across the world.

Join us if making your mark in the capital markets industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

As Multi-Asset Strategist, AVP you will

• Provide research support to the team's strategists across macro, FX, Fixed Income and Equity markets.
• Provide macroeconomic commentary incorporating SSM's proprietary measures of investor behavior, risk and inflation indicators.
• Write thought pieces, contribute to the portfolio of recommended asset allocation ideas and help to produce longer-term research insights.
• In the future the aim will be to present the research to clients and work with the sales team to provide ongoing coverage to large hedge fund, institutional and central bank clients.
• In the future the role will possibly include frequent travel.

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Candidate should be a self-driven, energetic and creative thinker with a strong curiosity about economics, the financial markets and the interactions of the relevant variables therein
• Candidate should be able to display a broad understanding of economic and political factors that impact on financial markets.
• Strong written communication skills. One of the core functions is the generation and co-ordination of written research, so the ability to write clear, concise, and digestible research is critical.
• Strong quantitative skills. The candidate should be highly numerate with a strong familiarity with statistical techniques.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Strong academic background in economics or finance.
• Prior positions in FX, fixed income and/or commodities markets and a demonstrable understanding of their interaction with currency markets would strongly contribute to a candidate's standing for this position. Prior experience in Emerging Markets would also be highly valued.

Salary Range:

$175,000 - $175,000 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.