Job Application for Portfolio Associate at Bridgewater Associates

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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About Bridgewater’s Singapore Office

We opened our Singapore office in 2022 with the strategic goals of capitalizing on growing commercial opportunities in Asia as well as expanding our research & investment capabilities to the region. Our team in Singapore is responsible for:

further deepening our ability to partner with existing institutional clients.
driving new market development with prospective advisory and distribution relationships in the region.
enabling around-the-clock portfolio construction and trading oversight for all our strategies in collaboration with our Westport colleagues.

About the Team

The Portfolio Implementation team is responsible for implementing Bridgewater’s portfolio management logic, ensuring every position and trade meets the investment intent of our strategies. We do this by overseeing the algorithms that reflect Bridgewater’s 45 years of compounded understanding in portfolio construction, and constantly deepening our understanding of risk, diversification, and portfolio management. The Singapore Portfolio team mirrors the capabilities of our Westport team and enables our systematic investment implementation to run around the clock, consistent with the global markets Bridgewater trades.

About Your Role

You will operate the systematized investment logic we use to create ideal portfolios for our clients. 
You will oversee a set of processes that ingest updated market data along with our view from our research department, apply portfolio construction logic, risk controls, and client specific constraints to determine those ideal portfolios.
You will oversee our logic for choosing which instruments we want to hold and then deliver the set of trades necessary to implement our portfolios to our trading department.
You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessment to a diverse group of people, including senior investment managers, traders, and developers. 
You will partner with technologists and researchers to constantly improve our processes, focusing on increasing efficiency or the implementation of new logic or portfolios.

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Executing and overseeing the systematized logic we use to generate client portfolios and trades every day.
Driving initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the systems you own.
Evolving the methods and best practices used by the broader investment community.

You will be a click for the role if you:

Are analytical, highly logical, and structured.
Are deeply interested in understanding financial markets.
Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems.
Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
Effective English language written and oral communication skills.

Physical Requirements

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Singapore campus, located in the Central Business District.
Flexibility of working hours is required.

Compensation

The annual base salary for this position is S$150,000 - S$200,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a performance-based bonus.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

Undergoing a training program of structured classes and on-the-job apprenticeship.
Taking ownership of increasingly complex systems and processes.
Taking on oversight and mentorship responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience.
Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

Health insurance, including vision and dental coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for by Bridgewater.
Global telemedicine access (24/7 access to licensed doctors).
Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package.
An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment.

Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. Only Singaporeans and Permanent Residents will be considered for this role.

Bridgewater Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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