Job Application for Alpha Engine - Client Investment Research at Bridgewater Associates

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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 to 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 Alpha Engine

Our core mission as an organization is to understand the fundamental drivers of markets and turn that understanding into high-quality portfolios and investment advice for our clients. We do this in three critical ways: by being fundamental, systematic, and diversified. We seek to understand the economy in a fundamental way, uncovering the timeless and universal cause-and-effect linkages that drive global markets. That understanding is implemented systematically and converted into explicit rules that can be rigorously stress-tested. Finally, we create highly diversified portfolios that are not dependent on any one source of return and can survive a wide range of economic environments.

About Your Role

Client Investment Research Analysts sit within the Alpha Engine Strategist Organization and act as the primary support to Bridgewater’s Strategists, a small group of senior investors appointed by Bridgewater’s co-CIOs to partner directly with our clients on their most important investment priorities. Strategists also generate independent research, perceptions, and views that advance Bridgewater’s understanding of economies, markets, and portfolio construction. From this unique position, Client Investment Research Analysts have a cross-cutting view into Bridgewater’s thinking across a wide range of investment topics and subsequently play a vital role in shaping our investment partnership with clients as well as Bridgewater’s broader ideas ecosystem.

The day-to-day work for a Client Investment Research Analyst involves collaborating with Strategists, Client Advisors, asset class teams, and our CIOs to define approaches on how to handle different client-focused research projects and execute on them through research, analysis, and project management, culminating in novel investment insight that informs our clients’ thinking. Analysts also advance Bridgewater’s investment synthesis through contributions to our Daily Observations, helping shape the macroeconomic outlook we share with our clients, and writing internal research pieces. Bridgewater’s approach to client service requires our Analysts to continually expand their understanding and knowledge of the markets. Through formal training and informal on-the-job instruction, Analysts become well-versed in our macroeconomic thinking, our approach to managing money, our different strategies, and Bridgewater’s book of business.

In this role, you will drive the following responsibilities:

Develop a strong understanding of Bridgewater’s investment strategies and philosophy, portfolio construction concepts, the fundamental macroeconomic drivers of global economic and financial markets, as well as Bridgewater’s book of business and commercial strategy.
Collaborate closely with Strategists as well as other research and investment professionals to develop the best approach to addressing clients’ investment questions. This covers a range of areas including but not limited to our outlook on markets, our thinking on portfolio construction, and Bridgewater’s investment process and strategies.
Advance Bridgewater’s broader understanding of markets by supporting strategists in generating independent perceptions, market views, and synthesizing investment themes.
Apply analytical skills, market knowledge, and an understanding of Bridgewater’s investment methodology to create insights to help shape clients’ investment thinking.
Provide direct support to Strategists in preparing for meetings on a full range of investment topics.
Work creatively with existing methodologies and tools to identify and solve problems in how we serve clients by simultaneously contributing to the creation of new tools, models, and or “machines” to automate and streamline our processes.

A successful candidate will:

Display a deep curiosity and drive to understand complex systems, like markets and economies, with the humility to focus more on what is true than being right.
Thrive in an intellectually rigorous environment where truthful and transparent communication ensures that the best ideas win out.
Be able to crisply communicate investment concepts and strategies in writing and data visualizations.
Be energized by and capable of navigating an intense, fast-paced environment with competing priorities.

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

Position Requirements

The Client Investment Research Analyst does not require deep experience in asset management, though preferred candidates will have prior experience within a related and similarly fast-paced professional services environment. We are looking for intellectually curious, energetic individuals who can learn quickly and are aggressive problem-solvers. Candidates should meet the following criteria.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree with a strong academic and extracurricular track record
Interest for and understanding of markets and investing
Ability to solve complex problems through analysis
Aptitude for creative quantitative work involving financial and economic data
Strong work ethic and demonstrated ability to achieve results and drive projects to completion; strong attention to detail
Aptitude for remaining composed and confident under pressure.

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.

Physical Requirements

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.

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.

You will grow with us by:

Participating in formal and informal on the job training
Developing a holistic understanding of portfolios and portfolio management principles
Becoming well-versed in our investment approach, process, strategies and book of business

Compensation Band

The wage range for this role is $130,000 - $260,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.

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. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here.

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 provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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