Investment & Research Associate

Please apply at: https://generalbank.bamboohr.com/careers/161Who We Are

FreeThink Capital (“FTC”) is an investment management firm based in Edmonton, Alberta, with $1.5 billion currently under management. We are registered with the Alberta Securities Commission as a Portfolio Manager, Investment Fund Manager, and Exempt Market Dealer. 

FTC employs both long-only and market-neutral strategies to capitalize on market opportunities wherever they present themselves by investing in multiple asset classes and regions across the globe. Our goal is simple: to provide investment excellence to our clients by consistently delivering superior risk-adjusted returns. 

Additionally, FTC serves as the quantitative and financial research team for a broader group of companies, a Schedule I Bank (General Bank of Canada) and 2 insurance companies (First Canadian Insurance Corporation & Millennium Insurance Corporation). In this capacity, FTC performs analysis, employs data science, and builds models across a variety of financial functions, including capital adequacy, strategic asset allocation, valuation and automated decision making.

The Opportunity

FreeThink Capital is looking for a permanent, fulltime Investment & Research Associate to join a team of exceptional professionals that come from some of the top hedge funds and schools in the world. FTC consists of a small, tightly knit team that values quantitative/analytical thinking, evidence-based decision making, intellectual curiosity and humility.

As an organization that sits at the nexus of a variety of financial institutions, working for FTC provides a healthy variety of financial work that is both stimulating and vital. This role serves as an excellent learning opportunity for the right individual to contribute meaningfully with considerable potential for growth and advancement. 

Position ResponsibilitiesOperations

• Execute day-to-day investment and trading operations
• Implement investment strategies and daily trade execution processes
• Design, prepare, and deliver key portfolio reporting (monitoring investment performance, portfolio risk, position and factor concentrations)
• Daily reconciliation and trade coordination with external service providers (including executing and prime brokers, custodians, and fund administrators)
• Regular & ad-hoc updating of key inputs and features that support a live automated loan adjudication model

  Research

• Assist with the maintenance, updating and evolution of capital adequacy models
• Refine and improve asset liability matching program
• Ad-hoc research on systematic, quantitative investment strategies
• Ad-hoc requests to analyze specific investment hypotheses

Required Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering or Sciences
• Familiarity with basic investment and financial concepts (e.g. financial statement analysis, Sharpe ratios, efficient markets, etc.)
• A grasp of fundamental statistics (e.g. standard deviation, normal distributions, probability, etc.)
• Intermediate to advanced skill with MS Excel

Preferred Qualifications

• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation or in progress
• Post-graduate education is an asset
• Previous experience in an investment operations role
• Previous experience researching and/or implementing systematic investment strategies
• Familiarity with Bloomberg, S&P ClariFI, SS&C Geneva

Position Details

• Status: Permanent, full-time
• Workplace Model: In-Office, with occasional remote work to accommodate one-off needs
• Location: Edmonton, Alberta
• Compensation: Salary will be commensurate with the quality and experience of the selected individual. Assistance with moving expenses will also be included.