Falcon Partners, a global quantitative investment firm with offices in New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai is looking to hire Portfolio Managers and Research Analysts with experience in quantitative investing and algorithmic trading to join its Asia investment team in Hong Kong or Shanghai.  This group has a multi-year successful global investment track record. 

Unique opportunity to manage investment capital and join an exciting and rapidly growing firm.  Compensation is highly competitive and commensurate with experience and performance.

Please indicate in your CV and cover letter whether you are applying for the Portfolio Manager or Research Analyst position.

Quantitative Research Analyst Qualifications 

• Ideal candidates will have advanced degrees in computer science, math, statistics or engineering and formal work experience and coursework in machine learning, time series prediction, statistical analysis and portfolio optimization.
• Previous quantitative research and trading experience with demonstrable direct contribution to developing and maintaining systematic, profitable and high sharpe ratio trading strategies
• Previous experience trading multiple asset classes including futures, commodities, FX and equities
• Previous experience analyzing tick level market data
• Strong analytical skills
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Matlab, R and C++
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivated, entrepreneurial 

Quantitative Portfolio Manager Qualifications

• All of the above for Quantitative Research Analyst PLUS
• Previous portfolio management experience with direct responsibility and discretion in managing risk capital
• Successful track record with clear attribution in managing portfolios, especially commodity and futures portfolios

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a portfolio of quantitative trading strategies
• Participate in investment committee meetings and end-to-end research and development processes
• Analyze global futures, commodity and equity markets to develop new trading ideas
• Use statistical tools to analyze market data (long-term, 1s, and tick level data) and identify statistical patterns and trading signals
• Utilize proprietary backtesting frameworks to thoroughly test and improve trading ideas
• Present to investment committee new trading ideas

Falcon Partners is a venture capital firm that provides institutional support and partnership at an early stage to talented entrepreneurs endeavoring to build category-defining companies.

Licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong, with a team based in Hong Kong, Shanghai and San Francisco, Falcon Partners makes well-researched investments into seed to Series A rounds, with a sharp focus on momentum-catalyzing, seed stage venture investing.

Falcon Partners primarily focuses on software and Internet companies based in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Seoul or China targeting to disrupt areas such as e-commerce, consumer technology/IoT, algorithmic trading, blockchain and financial services.