R help - Oct 2010 - Job for senior quantitative analyst in Dublin

Senior Quantitative Research Analyst

Based in Irish Life Investment Managers, Lower Beresford Place, Dublin 1

 

Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM), the investment management company within
the Irish Life & Permanent Group manages assets of circa EUR30bn and
provides fund management services to a large domestic and multi-national client
base. We provide investment products to both institutional and retail clients,
offering a full range of products from our value driven active and indexed fund
management processes.

 

We are seeking a Senior Quantitative Research Analyst to support and develop
quantitative equity stock selection models.

 

The Job

 

He/she will work within the Quantitative Research team and also with portfolio
managers in building long/short as well as high frequency equity selection
models.

 

This is a highly exciting and challenging opportunity for the right individual
and will be based in Dublin. The ideal candidate will be given the opportunity
to help build a range of new active equity models, generate new research ideas,
and get involved in portfolio management with the objective of fine tuning
models and enhancing performance. There will be further opportunities to develop
new strategies across products.

 

The Person

 

The ideal applicant will have the following skills and knowledge:

Ø      A proven track record in building active quantitative equity models from
scratch.

Ø      A broad knowledge of manipulating financial and economic databases
(FactSet or Thomson TQA, Reuters, Bloomberg etc),

Ø      Multi-factor backtesting, factor rotation (top down and bottom up
models),risk management, portfolio construction and implementation are sought

Ø      Excellent programming skills with a preference for S+, R or Matlab. A
knowledge of Relational Database Programming (SQL etc) is a plus

Ø      Experience in building high frequency systematic strategies would be an
advantage.

Ø      A primary degree with a post-graduate qualification in Econometrics, the
Physical Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Statistics.

Ø      Excellent communications skills, with an ability to formulate new ideas
and challenge existing models,

Ø      Be results orientated with an ability to work independently or in
collaboration with colleagues.

Ø      Be a strongly motivated, results orientated individual who pays attention
to detail.

 

Application Process

 

Applicants should, in the first instance, discuss their interest in the position
with their Line Manager.

 

If you are interested in applying for this role, please attach your Curriculum
Vitae and return by email to ilimhr@ilim.com with 'Senior Quant Research
Analyst' as the subject of your mail by midday, 3rd November 2010. 
Applications will not be accepted after this date.

 

If you have any queries on this role please contact Deirdre Rigby by email
deirdre.rigby@ilim.com  or call (01) 704 2017

 

We reserve the right to advertise this position externally and draw up a short
list as part of the selection process.

 

Irish Life Investment Managers supports Equal Opportunities and is regulated by
the Central Bank of Ireland


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Irish Life Investment Managers Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of
Ireland.  Irish Life Investment Managers Limited Registered Office: Beresford
Court, Beresford Place, Dublin 1.  Registered in Ireland Number 116000

While Irish Life Investment Managers uses reasonable efforts to ensure that the
information contained in this email is current, accurate and complete at the
date of publication, no representations or warranties are made (express or
implied) as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of such information.
Irish Life Investment Managers therefore cannot be held liable for any loss
arising directly or indirectly from the use of, or any action taken in reliance
on, any information contained in this email.

This material is for information only and does not constitute an offer or
recommendation to buy or sell any investment, or subscribe to any investment
management or advisory service. It is intended for the use of institutional and
other professional investors. Past performance is not indicative of future
results. The value of funds we manage may fall as well as rise.

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Does anyone have any advice on converting S+ libraries to R packages?
 
Glenn

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Irish Life Investment Managers Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of
Ireland.  Irish Life Investment Managers Limited Registered Office: Beresford
Court, Beresford Place, Dublin 1.  Registered in Ireland Number 116000

While Irish Life Investment Managers uses reasonable efforts to ensure that the
information contained in this email is current, accurate and complete at the
date of publication, no representations or warranties are made (express or
implied) as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of such information.
Irish Life Investment Managers therefore cannot be held liable for any loss
arising directly or indirectly from the use of, or any action taken in reliance
on, any information contained in this email.

This material is for information only and does not constitute an offer or
recommendation to buy or sell any investment, or subscribe to any investment
management or advisory service. It is intended for the use of institutional and
other professional investors. Past performance is not indicative of future
results. The value of funds we manage may fall as well as rise.

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It would certainly not be straightforward, unless Tibco has done a lot of work
to make it possible in recent years, (which is not unlikely).  They have done a
lot of work in the other direction, i.e. enabling R packages to be used within
S-PLUS.

S-PLUS has the concept of a "chapter", which roughly corresponds to a
working directory in R, but also the package.  The chapter is already strongly
file structured, and quite different to the way R has of doing things.  There is
also the notorious scoping rule problem which makes translation of advanced code
quite tricky, if not actually impossible.  S-PLUS does not (or at least did not)
have the equivalent R environments, for example.  It has a concept of
"frames", which is a very different thing and much less flexible.

When moving from S-PLUS libraries to R packages, my approach would be to go back
to the code, get it working in R and then build the R package.  The middle part,
getting it going in R, may take some time.

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On Behalf Of Treacy, Glenn
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2010 7:27 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Conversion of S+ libraries

Does anyone have any advice on converting S+ libraries to R packages?
 
Glenn

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Irish Life Investment Managers Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of
Ireland.  Irish Life Investment Managers Limited Registered Office: Beresford
Court, Beresford Place, Dublin 1.  Registered in Ireland Number 116000

While Irish Life Investment Managers uses reasonable efforts to ensure that the
information contained in this email is current, accurate and complete at the
date of publication, no representations or warranties are made (express or
implied) as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of such information.
Irish Life Investment Managers therefore cannot be held liable for any loss
arising directly or indirectly from the use of, or any action taken in reliance
on, any information contained in this email.

This material is for information only and does not constitute an offer or
recommendation to buy or sell any investment, or subscribe to any investment
management or advisory service. It is intended for the use of institutional and
other professional investors. Past performance is not indicative of future
results. The value of funds we manage may fall as well as rise.

This email and any files transmitted with it are confide...{{dropped:16}}

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