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Director, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Manager
Tiaa
San Francisco, CA, United States
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About the Company
Nuveen is the investment management arm of TIAA. It is one of the largest global asset managers with specialist knowledge across a wide array of asset classes, including fixed income, equities and alternatives. Nuveen is driven not only by the independent investment processes across the firm, but also the insights, risk management, analytics and other tools and resources a truly world-class platform provides. As a global asset manager, our mission is to work in partnership with our clients to create outcome-focused solutions to help them secure their financial future. For more information about the firm please visit our website at www.Nuveen.com
About the Group
TIAA Investments is a global asset manager focused on achieving the best-possible long-term risk-adjusted returns for its clients. Its investments in active, quantitative and index strategies span global fixed income, equity, and responsible investment.
About the Position
TIAA Investments is currently seeking a Director, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Manager, in our San Francisco office to help build and enhance the infrastructure and manage a series of equity index portfolios, as part of a small team managing over $100 billion in index and socially responsible investment strategies. The Index team is responsible for all pure index and Socially Responsible equity strategies across all investment vehicles including mutual funds, ETFs, and sleeves within multi-manager accounts, servicing both institutional and retail clients. This team operates from both New York and San Francisco on a daily basis, working closely with the equity trading desk and several operationally intensive groups within TIAA Investments.
Major Responsibilities:
• Evaluate and enhance portfolio management infrastructure and tools used to manage a series of equity index portfolios
• Research and recommend strategies to enhance portfolio returns (i.e., micro inefficiencies).
• Engineer methods to improve capacity in order for team to handle more accounts at current staffing levels.
• Evaluate and enhance current risk controls to better minimize performance vs. benchmark
• Manage portfolios (time frame dependent upon experience) , which includes:
• Day-to-day cash management
• Portfolio rebalancing, reviewing, and submitting trade lists.
• Responses to internal as well as external inquiries as to performance and approach
• Analyze and respond to corporate actions
Required Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor degree in math/science/engineering or other quantitative field
• Basic knowledge of financial markets and quantitative techniques
• Minimum 3 years of experience with UNIX/LINUX shell scripting and SAS
• Detailed oriented and ability to multi-task
• Strong verbal and written communications and interpersonal skills
• Ability to improve efficiency through technology/automation
Desired Skills and Experience:
• Experience managing a portfolio using quantitative techniques.
• Experience in managing an ETF portfolio.
• Use of derivatives to enhance performance.
• Experience in evaluating risk models
• Proficiency or knowledge of Python, Matlab, C, Fortran or Perl a plus
• Prefer CFA or CFA candidate, or other investment related credential (e.g. CIPM, CFP)
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