Internship - Alternative Investments 12 months' FTC

Job description

Company Description

At Natixis, we create tailor-made solutions in asset & wealth management, corporate and investment banking, insurance, and payments, with over 16,000 staff members in 38 countries.

Our Employees:
As an equal opportunity employer, Natixis is keen on promoting all talents and empowering our employees to evolve, grow, and take ownership of their careers. We strongly believe that our people are our greatest assets.

Our Ambition:
To keep moving forward collectively, to better serve our clients, and to provide them with best in class solutions for their growth.

Your Impact:
We strongly encourage every employee to foster change and we seek to give the opportunities to make a true impact.

Job Description

Overall purpose of the role:

Assist in conducting due diligence and investment research on hedge fund and regulated funds, assigning ranks and recommending them for all business lines of Natixis involved in the fund business.

Investment Strategy Research

·  Participating in developing of house views on various fund strategies, styles and individual funds.

Fund Research and Due Diligence

·  Maintaining the internal regulated fund database and being the first point of contact for the trading and structuring teams in relation to this database;
·  Updating the due diligence information for the regulated fund database in accordance with the regulatory requirements and internal procedures. Working closely with the trading and structuring teams to ensure that the due diligence information related to all the regulated funds in the database is timely updated to the level required.
·  Evaluating hedge fund managers including the initial screening, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the hedge funds;
·  Conducting on-site meetings with hedge fund managers;
·  Conducting the strategic and operational due-diligence of hedge funds and regulated funds, peer group analysis, background and reference checks, third-party service providers due-diligence, etc.;
·  Documenting in writing manager introduction and due-diligence reports and recommendations;
·  On-going monitoring of approved hedge funds and regulated funds across all business lines of Natixis.
·  Ad-hoc requests.

Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience

Competence/Knowledge required:

·  Advanced knowledge of Excel. Ability to create and maintain complex Excel spreadsheets;
·  Working knowledge of financial statistics and methods of quantitative analysis;
·  Basic knowledge of macro economy and drivers behind performance of various asset classes;
·  Understanding of a wide variety of financial instruments.
·  An additional European Language (Nordic, Eastern European will be an advantage).

Skills required:

·  Good programming skills;
·  Good oral and written communication skills (fluent English); Ability to write analytical and technical reports in English;
·  Good interpersonal skills;
·  Time and priority management skills;
·  Reliability;
·  Autonomy;
Date de publication:10/01/2020