American Century Investment Services, Inc.
Location
Santa Clara, CA | United States
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Our Firm
American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 60 years of experience helping investors achieve their financial goals. Serving a broad client base including financial advisors, institutions and individual investors, we offer a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines. Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs. We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives and ETFs. Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-or more than $1.5 billion since 2000-to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 550-person, non-profit biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer. Headquartered in Kansas City, MO, we also have offices located in New York; London; Hong Kong; Sydney; El Segundo, CA (Los Angeles area); and Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley). For more information, please visit americancentury.com. Description: As research intern you will become part of and contribute to our Multi-Asset Strategies team in Santa Clara, California that seeks to deliver robust outcomes tailored to client needs. During the 10-week internship, you will work directly with our investment professionals and will have broad exposure to the team's investment management capabilities. The internship will be focused around a primary research project, in support of our team's work on portfolio design and construction, and thought leadership in the field of asset allocation. In addition to this project, you may also support the production duties of the team, maintaining or enhancing return and risk reporting capabilities and tactical models. This position requires both a basic understanding of economics and financial market theory (acquired through academic training and/or investment-related experience), and an ability to apply this knowledge to new and moderately complex problems. Given the ever-shifting nature of the field, the intern must be adaptable, innovative, and have an entrepreneurial mindset. This position also requires a strong interest in understanding portfolio management practices and ways in which these practices can be improved. Lastly, a proficiency in programming and the ability to get familiar with risk and market data software used by the group, such as FactSet, Bloomberg, or BlackRock Aladdin is required for this role. Major Responsibilities: Your primary research project may include analysis on a variety of asset allocation topics, including portfolio construction, development and estimation of various metrics and analytics, and customized asset allocation solutions with a focus on specific client needs. This can involve various optimization and quantitative analysis techniques such as Monte Carlo simulation. Further responsibilities may include:Job tags
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