IFM Investors

IFM Investors does not publish a single named graduate scheme or summer analyst program; the firm's Inclusive Workplace page identifies its early-career entry points as named external partnerships rather than a standalone IFM-branded intake:

• CareerTrackers (Australia): a paid, multi-year internship program for pre-professional First Nations university students that IFM hosts through its Corporate First Nations Strategy.
• Young Women In Finance (London): a pathway-into-finance partnership for women, run through the firm's London office.

For other early-career and graduate-level roles, IFM directs candidates to its open job listings and a talent community rather than to a dated, annually-recurring application window. A candidate looking for a recognisable summer-analyst funnel will not find one here; the route in is either via one of the named partnerships or via a stand-alone job posting whose timing IFM does not pre-announce, which makes calendar planning around this firm less structured than for peer asset managers running formal grad schemes.

The franchise itself tilts heavily toward infrastructure: US$89.1 billion in infrastructure equity AUM, 30+ years of infrastructure investing, and 71,000+ employees across portfolio companies in 20+ countries on the Infrastructure capability page. For an applicant choosing between buy-side employers, this is the firm where the dominant asset class is real-asset infrastructure rather than listed-equity or hedge-fund strategy, and where the ownership is a pension-fund collective rather than a public listing or a private-equity sponsor – two facts that change which technical preparation is relevant for the conversation and which investor incentives shape the day-to-day work.