Equities Research Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the equities research position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for financial and/or accounting support to the activity Accounting Department, Budget Department, Financial Systems Department or Business Operations Department, and other organization support elements and other activities.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Monitor and track project performance against set objectives
• Perform analysis on data to identify key signals relevant for forecasting performance drivers
• Demonstrated analytical, mathematical and problem solving skills
• Exposure to investment research (sell-side or buy-side) highly desirable
• Experience with social media monitoring and web analytics
• Experience with a variety of web scraping tools
• Demonstrated experience working with file parsing, web scraping data results
• Work closely with trading to build analytics and data-driven processes that automate and optimize trading quantitatively

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the equities research position.

Previously, I was responsible for financial conflict of interest and other financial reporting data as requested for National Board and Committee meetings.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Participate in the development of investment ideas
• Develop relationships with accounts
• Help manage the Investor Marketing Group process (corporate roadshows and conference one on ones)
• Assist in IPO, follow-ons, and block trades
• Coordinate client requests for research, projects
• Flag upcoming events, analyst marketing and conferences
• Distribute sales memos, morning previews, relevant research that goes out to desk
• Sales experience preferred, ideally gained in either Global Markets or Investment Banking

I am excited to be applying for the position of equities research. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for additional value added contributions to investment teams on a customized basis, such as risk analysis, syndicate recommendations, detailed portfolio data reporting and analysis, exposure tracking, and custom portfolio management.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Good communication and team skills in a multi-location set up Relevant experience in similar roles in Quant Research and Model Development will be an advantage
• Previous experience in a similar Equity Research role or equivalent experience in an analytical role in a relevant industry
• Hard working and a can-do attitude
• Well-organised and able to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
• Proficient with Microsoft products, in particular Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Additional language skills in Cantonese or Mandarin would be highly regarded
• Experience in conducting due diligence on long only equity fund managers
• Assist in the performance attribution analysis to explain differences between portfolio and benchmark returns actual and planned investment income

Please consider me for the equities research opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for consultation and advice to investigators regarding accounting, reporting, and other financial management components.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Capital Markets / Investment
• Generalist w/ key focus on Materials, Energy, Utilities and Industrials sectors
• Develop pricing models for the Warrants Market Making business
• Masters, Graduates in Mathematics/Engineering/Physics/Statistics or any other numerate discipline
• Knowledge of financial mathematics and derivative products
• Hands on programming knowledge - C++/Python
• Support senior research sales staff with daily client inquiries
• Synthesize and distribute daily research notes that pertain to client portfolios

I would like to submit my application for the equities research opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for information and support to business management and traders with an ever increasing demand on financial resources utilisation and analysis.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Work closely with trading to build analytics (single instrument and portfolio) and data-driven processes that automate and optimize trading strategies
• Develop pricing models for client activities taking into account profiles, quantitative features, and historic behaviour
• Work with the business to centralize risk management, devise hedging strategies, and build executions logic accordingly
• Expertise in statistical modelling & optimization, including standard techniques, linear, convex & conic optimization
• Work closely with the electronic trading product team and clients to build data-driven algorithms, analytics, models, and processes
• Leverage on a wide range of classical and modern approaches and techniques such as Bayesian inference, probabilistic decision theory, optimization, supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, neural networks, deep learning, time-series analysis, clustering methods, dimensionality reduction methods (PCA, kernel methods, and factor models)
• Following corporate and regulatory policies and rules create and maintain supporting documentation for algorithms, analytics, models and processes
• Entrepreneurial spirit and passion for creating, maintaining and spreading a culture of data-driven decision making