Quantitative Strategy & Performance Analytics - Quantitative Strategy Project Intern (Jan 2025)

Your role

The Quantitative Strategy Team has three key focus areas:

• Quantitative portfolio management for two stock portfolios.
• Alpha generation and portfolio construction, where the team looks at systematic strategies to enhance risk-adjusted portfolio returns.
• Building an income portfolio by investing in assets such as insurance blocks. 

The intern will assist the team in building up the infrastructure for quantitative analysis and support ongoing research activities. Specific responsibilities can include: 

• Assist with signal research activities leveraging traditional and alternative data sources.
• Automate signal generation and tracking of trading ideas in the research phase.
• Work with team to deploy previously tracked signals to live portfolio.
• Assist with building infrastructure to maintain a quantitatively managed portfolio. 
• Build dashboards to monitor market and portfolio performance. 

About you

To apply for this role, you have to meet the following qualifications:

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a quantitative field such as Financial Engineering or quantitative subjects like Statistics, Math, or Hard Sciences with a demonstrated interest in Finance. 
• Prior work experience in Finance sell-side or buy-side, or quantitative investing at a buy-side firm will be advantageous.
• Programming language Python is preferred and statistics skillsets are required.
• Please state your availability clearly in your resume or CV (Start date, End date).

Benefits

Temasek offers a wide range of employee benefits, which include:

• Career development and personal wellness programs.
• Family-friendly initiatives that help staff to achieve their career and personal aspirations.
• Classes on meditation, stress management, and fitness activities to support them in managing their well-being.
• Flexible work arrangements.

Training and development

Temasek strongly emphasizes developing and deepening the capabilities, ensuring talent remains relevant for today and tomorrow. Temasek's ‘4Es’ talent framework incorporates development programs and opportunities for all staff to gain Experience, Exposure, Education, and Enrichment. The firm encourages mobility as a way of developing talent to acquire multidisciplinary domains and these include job rotations to different teams, overseas assignments, stints in portfolio companies, stretch assignments, mentoring, and coaching.

Career progression

Through Temasek's Internship Programmes, you will be immersed in the role of a generational investor working on real business challenges and ongoing business projects, and be a step closer to securing a full-time opportunity within the firm.

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• career2.successfactors.eu/career
• temasek.com.sg
• youtube.com/temasek-singapore