Associate Research

About the role

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is seeking an Associate, Research in New York, New York to research U.S. Rates products and come up with trade ideas and market color. The role involves communicating with clients and sales, providing Inflation and rates market updates, and solving client inquiries about Inflation and interest rate markets. Responsibilities include analyzing the long-term and short-term drivers for interest rates and inflation markets, working on models for market scenarios, and closely monitoring economic data releases and U.S. Treasuries and TIPS behavior around it. Telecommuting is permitted up to 1 day per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, or a related field of study
• Four (4) years of experience in the position offered or four (4) years as a Manager, Associate, or a closely related occupation

Experience with

• Python for quantitative modeling, automation, and production deployment
• R studio for fetching markets data and modeling
• qkdb+ for high frequency market data analysis
• Probability and Statistics
• Quantitative analysis
• Machine learning techniques for analyzing patterns in time series data
• Excel for charting and data analysis
• Macroeconomic analysis to understand and predict the broader trend around economic releases
• Time series analysis to find patterns in the move in Treasury and TIPS markets
• Interest rates modeling for yield curve construction and term premia extraction
• Econometrics for modeling data including payrolls

Pay

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $189,000 and $200,000 per year at the commencement of employment. Base pay will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.