Investment internship

Your responsibilities

You will work as an intern the investment office department. The team has in scope investments on the balance sheet (govies, corporate bonds, derivatives, etc.), cash management, and fund selection/analysis for unit-linked (Branch 23) products. For the latter, Athora find the best funds available on the market for its clients by working with the most well-known fund and largest managers such as Blackrock, Fidelity, Nordea, etc.

Depending on the needs, you will support daily operations and/or be assigned a specific project, which can be related for example to the following (non-exhaustive):

• Update cash balances, reconciliate daily cash positions, record trades, verify pricing, etc.
• Support on daily orders execution
• Review processes, optimize reporting and automate recurring tasks to improve efficiency
• Review and optimize the existing performance analysis framework for external fund managers selection (funds are composed of equities, bonds, and eventual derivatives products).
• Perform investment analysis based on quantitative (risk/return, beta, max drawdown, sharpe ratio, etc.) and qualitative analysis (team, process, style: such as growth vs value, etc.)
• Use Morningstar Direct as a tool to automate/optimize the fund analysis process
• Present your analysis to your manager in a clear and summarized way
• Perform other ad-hoc tasks to help the team deal with workload (such as KYC review or other administrative tasks), and work on automating those tasks.
  

Your profile

• You are a student looking for an internship and seeking for a Masterdegree (or post-Master degree) in an economic field with major in finance/investments or quantitative field (math, engineer or actuary).
• You have strong interest in financial markets: investments, funds, portfolio management
• Good working knowledge of Excel is essential. Knowledge in VBA is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Bloomberg/Morningstar is a strong plus.
• Good communication skills and able to summarize your findings in a simple and comprehensible manner.
• Pro-active and able to work autonomously on a project
• Fluency in English is mandatory. French and Dutch is a plus.

(!) Attention:

• We only accept contracted internships , which means internship that are part of an education. No exceptions are allowed.
• The internship is non-remunerated.
• The internship should last for at least four months .

We Offer

• An internship where you can have an immediate impact.
• Real development and on the-job-training opportunity
• A pleasant and intellectually stimulating work environment
• The pleasure of working within a dynamic and efficient team
• A complex and exciting work environment, constantly evolving

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