Ready to launch your career? The Columbia Threadneedle Investments intern program is designed to provide students with first-hand investment management experience. The Quantitative Research Intern will work with researchers and portfolio managers in systematic equity strategies for the summer of 2025. The intern will use rigorous analysis, creativity, and technical skills to generate insights that contribute directly to our advancement and success. In this role, by combining theory, practice and technology, the intern will contribute to our alpha signal discovery, analytics development, and strategy implementation. This position is an excellent opportunity to gain experience and insight into the field of quantitative equity investing as well as exposure to all aspects of the investment process.
Responsibilities:
- The intern will have the opportunity to work independently on impactful research and development projects.
- Pre-process large data sets for signal processing and model estimation, including validation, cleaning, normalization, dimension reduction and visualization.
- Apply innovative techniques such as machine learning and generative artificial intelligence to uncover differentiated investment signals and enrich our stock selection models.
- Contribute to the team's development of advanced investment analytics.
- Work with portfolio managers to analyze market dynamics and their impact on factor behavior and portfolio performance.
Required Qualifications
- Current Junior at a 4-year university pursuing a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Aor related
- Graduation date of December 2025 or May/June 2026
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient programming skills in R, Python, SQL, or similar
- Strong quantitative aptitude, intellectual curiosity, and attention to detail
- Demonstrated interest in financial markets
- Clear, concise, proactive communication skills
- High level of self-motivation and ability to multi-task
- Ability to work and communicate collaboratively and constructively with others
The company does not offer corporate undergraduate internships for students with F-1 visas.
About Our Company
We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration as of 2022. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries, advise and manage assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.
Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.
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