Fundamental Equity L/S Analyst

Graham Capital Management, L.P. ("Graham") is an alternative investment manager founded in 1994 by Kenneth G. Tropin. Specializing in discretionary and quantitative macro strategies, Graham is dedicated to delivering strong, uncorrelated returns across a wide range of market environments. As one of the industry’s longest-standing global macro and trend-following managers, Graham remains committed to innovation, evolving its strategies through a robust investment, technology, and operational infrastructure. Graham harnesses the synergies between its discretionary and quantitative trading businesses to offer a broad suite of complementary alpha strategies, each built on the principles of thoughtful portfolio construction, active risk management, and diversification by design. Graham invests significant proprietary capital alongside its clients – including global institutions, endowments, foundations, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, investment management advisors, and qualified individual investors – reinforcing alignment of interests across all strategies.

The foundation of Graham’s sustainability and success is the experience and contributions of its people. The firm seeks to cultivate talent, encourage the diversity of ideas, and respect the contributions of all. In turn, each employee shares in the responsibility of strengthening those around them.

Description

Graham Capital Management, L.P. is seeking a Fundamental L/S Equities analyst to join a growing Consumer team based in NYC.

Responsibilities

• Generate insights to identify attractive investment opportunities and make recommendations to the portfolio manager
• Maintain research coverage of existing holdings
• Build and maintain detailed financial models
• Follow and evaluate industry news, data, and trends
• Develop sector and macro themes, attend conferences, interact with company management teams and industry experts to identify opportunities
• Continuously rank risk/reward of positions, understand investor expectations, monitor sentiment and positioning around upcoming catalysts
• Review company drivers; evaluate management strategy, industry dynamics, and competitor positioning; assess intrinsic value and business quality

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience as an equity research analyst on buy side and/or sell side
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• Ability to consume, distill large quantities of information and develop insights from vast sources of information, including research reports, industry news, daily news publications, company press releases, etc.
• Strong work ethic and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and relationship-building skills
• High levels of curiosity, integrity, and passion for financial markets

This role requires commuting into our NYC Office 5 days per week, Mondays through Fridays.

Base Salary Range

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $125,000 to $150,000.  The anticipated range is based on information as of the time this post was generated.  The applicable annual base salary or hourly rate paid to a successful applicant will be determined based on multiple factors, including without limitation the nature and extent of prior experience, skills, and qualifications. 

Base salary or rate does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role. 

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