International Equities – Intern (Asia)

Investment Associate (IA) Summer Internship

As we seek to become the most successful investment team in the world, our investment teams create portfolios of equity securities through collaboration with portfolio managers, analysts, associates, and traders. Investment Associates (IAs) focus on a small number of stocks and learn everything they can about those companies. They build and maintain detailed financial models, work with data sources to develop insight into company fundamentals, and perform primary and analytical research to help their team understand each company as thoroughly as possible.

As a participant in our internship summer program, you will experience long-short equities investing from the inside of one of the world’s most preeminent hedge funds.

Over the summer, we provide training focused on key associate building blocks, including basic financial modeling, analyzing a company’s future business prospects, and distinguishing between good and bad businesses and attractive and unattractive investment opportunities, among other areas. You will also gain extensive exposure to Citadel’s best-in-class infrastructure, helping you understand how technology and risk management systems support a repeatable investing process and best-in-class performance.

Objectives

• Learn smart and efficient financial modeling techniques
• Gain exposure to innovative research tactics, including identifying and mining external data sources
• Apply analytical and research skills to executing an investment process
• Experience best-in-class research technology and quantitative risk systems

Skills & Talents

• Bachelor’s degree in applied math, economics, engineering, statistical modeling, calculus, computer science, physics, or a related discipline (required)
• Strong organization skills to help create and maintain investment team infrastructure
• Desire and ability to learn and apply efficient financial modeling techniques
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to leverage incomplete and imperfect information into a well-formulated thesis
• Skill in utilizing third-party data sets to support or refute pillars of an argument
• Interest in learning and applying new technology applications

Additional Information

Opportunities may be available from time to time in any location in which the business is based for suitable candidates.

If you are interested in a career with Citadel, please share your details and we will contact you if there is a vacancy available.

About Citadel

Citadel is one of the world’s leading alternative investment managers. We manage capital on behalf of many of the world’s preeminent private, public, and nonprofit institutions. We seek the highest and best use of investor capital in order to deliver market-leading results and contribute to broader economic growth. For over 30 years, Citadel has cultivated a culture of learning and collaboration among some of the most talented and accomplished investment professionals, researchers, and engineers in the world. Our colleagues are empowered to test their ideas and develop commercial solutions that accelerate their growth and drive real impact.