Quant Internship and Graduate recruitment - A Firms List

[Andy Nguyen]

The following is a non-exhaustive list of investment banks, quant funds, and financial firms that offer internship and graduate/entry-level opportunities for students in Financial Engineering (MFE) programs. We will extend the list over time as we receive comments and feedback from our members and partners.

INVESTMENT BANKS
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Barclays Capital
BNP Paribas
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
J.P.Morgan
Morgan Stanley
Nomura
Societe Generale
UBS

ASSET MANAGEMENT
Bank of New York Mellon
BlackRock
Oxam
PIMCO
TD Securities
Wellington Management
Putnam Investments

COMMERCIAL BANKS
Commerzbank
HSBC
ING
Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Bank of Scotland
Standard Chartered Bank
Wells Fargo

HEDGE FUNDS
AQR Capital Management
Aviva Investors
Bogle Investment Management
Bridgewater
Citadel Group
Clinton Group
DEShaw
DFG Investment Advisers
First Quadrant
GBAR
Glenwood Capital Investment
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Infinum Capital Management
Investec
Knight Capital Group
M&G Investments
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International
Numeric Investors
Nuveen Investment
Optiver
QVT Financial
SIG Susquehanna
State Street
Tower Research Capital
Two Sigma Investments

INSURANCE COMPANIES
American International Group (AIG)
Aflac
Ameriprise Financial
Genworth Financial
Lincoln Financial Group
MassMutual Life
MetLife
Nationwide Financial Services
Pacific Life
Principal Financial Group
Prudential Financial

PROP TRADING
Chicago Trading Company
Chopper Trading
DRW Trading Group
GETCO
Jane Street
Jump Trading
Nico Trading
Quantres
RSJ
Spot Trading
TransMarket Group
Walleye Trading
Wolverine Trading

RATING AGENCIES
Fitch Rating
Moody’s
Standard & Poor’s

ACCOUNTING
Deloitte
Ernst & Young
KPMG
PwC

FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bloomberg Financials
FINCAD
Gloucester Research
Interactive Brokers
Numerix
Opera Solutions
Quantifi Solutions
R² Financial Technologies
Thomson Reuters

These investment banks, hedge funds, quant shops cover all asset classes and for these quant internships and graduate hires, the firm will sometimes offer the opportunity for rotational programs in sevaral of these areas to give you a feel for what each area does.

Know a firm that should be on this list? Broken links? Leave us a comment!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks, a few more added (Janes Street, Optiver, Bridgewater, etc)

The list now contains over 40 firms.

 

[jess]

Knight Capital Group should be on the list. They have a really successful electronic trading group that hires interns and full-time quants from top-notch programs.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

jess
Thanks. I added Knight Trading to the list.

 

[Trevor]

As of 25 July 2010, SocGen link appears to be broken.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks Trevor,
Both links are fixed.

 

[Trevor]

DFG Investment Advisers link broken as well.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks John,
I have added them to the list except Rho Trading since I can't find their website. Weird.

 

[Nick]

Wells Fargo maybe?

 

[MartinGoldberg]

Standard and Poor's also hires such people.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks Martin,
We have added S&P into our list.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

FINCAD is now added. Thanks Kristine

 

[rajanS]

http://www.quantifisolutions.com/solutions.aspx

perhaps this company could be added to the list?

 

[markhobbus]

are these internships only for graduate students? im an undergrad...

 

[Joe]

I believe HKEx is offering internships in Hong Kong for OTC

 

[Danny]

I just stop by their website. Don't see any "hire" link.. 

 

[koupparis]

FYI the link is broken.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

FYI the link is broken.

Fixed

 

[vak]

G-research could be added to the list

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Added to the list. Thanks vak