Who We Are

We are a team of researchers, technologists, traders and professionals who have come together to design a systematic investment process that aims to add value across market cycles.

300 +
Employees
32
Advanced Degrees
18
Chartered Financial
Analysts

Our Departments

Investment

Research is responsible for developing, maintaining and enhancing the firm’s investment models, which produce the forecasts of returns, risks, and transaction costs that drive trading decisions. The team comprises quantitative researchers and quantitative developers with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds who work together closely to support and improve these models. Collectively, all team members work together to manage the production and validation of our forecasts on an ongoing basis.

Quant Research – The quantitative researchers within the team generally have more finance and statistics expertise, and often focus on transforming investment ideas into signals, back-testing the signals, and implementing changes to signals in the models. 

Quant Dev – The quantitative developers within the team generally have more software development and technology expertise, and often focus on creating specialized tools and libraries to facilitate the quantitative research process, developing techniques to work with large volumes of complex data, and performing data analysis while optimizing the testing and implementation of new investment ideas.

Quantitative Developers help build our next-generation Research data platform leveraging open-source, cloud and distributed computing technologies. They work on high-impact projects that are quickly adopted and drive change across the team.

Investment Analytics is responsible for overseeing and producing metrics related to our investment process. This responsibility includes portfolio attribution and other analyses regarding our investment positioning, weights, shifts and tilts. Investment Analytics is also responsible for the preparation, review and approval of investment content used for external distribution.

Investment Processes is responsible for designing systems that automate our investment decision-making and trading. The systems extract information contained in large financial data sets, combine it with risk and return forecasts, and propose the firm’s trading program. Investment Processes also creates tools to analyze and manage the resulting portfolios.

Investment Services is responsible for managing critical inputs to the firm’s investment process, managing the services provided by our outsourced middle-office, and supporting our portfolio management team, processes and investment initiatives.
Portfolio Management is responsible for managing investment portfolios and executing trade orders proposed by the firm’s quantitative investment models and portfolio optimization process, as approved by the firm’s investment and compliance professionals. The team is specifically involved in portfolio construction, risk management, portfolio finance, and cash and corporate action management as well as execution and best execution analytics.

Technology

Our technology capabilities enable all aspects of our work. From our investment management to our client reporting, we rely on scalable systems to tackle larger and more complex business problems. We experience its impact on a daily basis: in our platform to discover new investment ideas, in the way in which we build our portfolios and optimize our trading activity, and even in the way we measure the progress towards our goals. Our engineering teams are constantly looking at modern technologies to enhance our systems, closely collaborating and working cross-functionally with business teams to innovate and improve our investment process and our business operations.

Business Operations

Finance is responsible for the fiscal management and administration aspects of the firm and covers a wide range of functions including procurement, accounts payable, payroll, fee billing, accounting, financial reporting, treasury, budgeting, forecasting, as well as audit and tax functions for the firm.
Business Development & Relationship Management is responsible for developing new business and managing existing client relationships. This includes marketing the firm’s investment capabilities to prospective institutional investors, establishing investment consultant relationships, and delivering an exceptional client experience to the firm’s global client base.
Marketing and Reporting is responsible for the management of all marketing materials and client reporting, including performance calculations and reporting, used to support the firm’s business development and client relationship activities. This includes the design, production, organization, storage and distribution of materials.

Human Resources is a business partner responsible for talent related matters including: attracting talent, talent development, performance management, compensation and benefits, immigration, employee engagement and communications.

Legal & Compliance is responsible for managing the firm’s legal and regulatory compliance needs, as well as managing the firm’s internal and external regulatory assessments and audits. This work includes establishing, interpreting and monitoring investment guidelines for all client accounts.
Funds is responsible for structuring, forming and monitoring the administration of the Arrowstreet Sponsored Funds. This work includes ongoing administrator oversight, financial statement preparation and audits, applicable regulatory and tax filings and board reporting. Funds is also responsible for the creation, maintenance and oversight of fund documents and for negotiating trading arrangements with brokers, prime brokers, counterparties and futures commission merchants.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

We are committed to promoting education, fostering a culture of inclusion, advancing diversity and providing equitable access to opportunities. We seek to create and maintain an environment in which employees feel comfortable being themselves. We believe embracing and leveraging our diverse backgrounds and perspectives is critical to sustaining success and enriches our culture.

DE&I is embedded into our organization in a variety of ways, including through priorities such as offering our employees training and promoting inclusion through employee engagement activities. Below are a few examples of our DE&I focused engagement activities:

  • Multi-Cultural Event Series: Led by employee volunteers to showcase our firm’s culturally-diverse employee base, giving our people the opportunity to learn and celebrate different heritages.   
  • Women’s Speaker Series: An opportunity to gather for events and presentations to foster networking and information sharing on topics ranging from work-life balance to career journeys.