Garda Capital Partners (Garda) is a multi-billion dollar alternative investment firm with over 21 years of experience deploying relative value strategies across fixed income markets for institutional investors. Garda has offices in Wayzata, New York City, West Palm Beach, Geneva, Zug, Copenhagen, Singapore, and Scottsdale.
Garda is looking to hire a Macroeconomic Analyst to join the Rates trading team in Zug. The candidate will be supporting portfolio managers by analyzing opportunities, maximizing conviction and modeling findings for future use.
Position Responsibilities
- Generate high conviction views on macro markets by identifying and analyzing key developments across global economies and markets
- Support the macro trading team with economic research and market analysis
- Improve macro risk taking around economic cycles and specific data releases by producing data driven analytics
- Support the team’s research process, including model building, data collection and analysis, prototyping, back testing, and performance monitoring
- Evaluate sell side research for useful, repeatable insights
Qualifications & Desired Skills
- 2+ years of relevant work experience in an applied economist or rates/macro strategy role
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in economics, econometrics, statistics, finance, financial engineering, applied math, computer science, or similar quantitative or technical discipline
- Intellectual curiosity and motivation to innovate and improve, particularly relating to macroeconomics
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Specific work experience with the US & European economies and interest rate markets are a plus
Top Skills
What We Do
Garda embraces one investment strategy with one focus: Protect and grow capital for institutional investors who entrust their money to Garda so they can deliver on their promises to their stakeholders. Garda's approach to fixed income relative value investing, their integrity, has earned the trust of investors and counterparties over many market cycles.
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