OMERS Capital Markets

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OMERS is a Canadian leading pension fund with over $65 billion net assets, a direct-drive active strategy, world-class pension services, and offices in Toronto, Calgary, London, and New York.
The Quantitative Investments Group is responsible for developing and managing systematic absolute return strategies. Our investment process is driven by mathematical or econometric models based on financial theory and thoroughly tested using empirical data.

We seek a Quantitative Investment Researcher (Senior Analyst/Principal) to join a team of Ph.D. level investment professionals with a track record of achievements in investment management and research.
Candidates will hold a Ph.D. in a quantitative discipline from a top university with 2 to 7 years of investment research experience with a leading financial firm or a Ph.D. in finance or economics and 1 to 7 years of experience. Exceptional finance or economics PhDs with only academic experience will be considered.

The candidate will have strong foundations in financial econometrics and statistics, understanding of applied asset pricing theory, financial engineering, multi-factor models, optimization techniques, excellent command of IT (MatLab, C++, SQL), experience with complex data sets.

More experienced candidates will be considered for senior roles.

Please apply directly on our career site, Job ID: J0914-0865