Intern

Pharo Management is a leading global macro hedge fund with a focus on emerging markets. Founded in 2000, the firm has offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, and currently manages $8 billion in assets across four funds. Pharo trades foreign exchange, sovereign and corporate credit, local market interest rates, commodities, and their derivatives. We trade in over 70 countries across Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America as well as developed markets. Our investment approach combines macroeconomic fundamental research and quantitative analysis.

Pharo employs a diverse, dynamic team of 140 professionals representing over 20 nationalities and 30 languages. We have a strong corporate culture anchored in core values such as collaborative spirit, creativity, and respect. We are passionate about what we do and are committed to attracting the best and brightest talent.

This is a great opportunity to join a market leader and contribute to our continued success.

We are looking for a technically savvy student who is curious about finance to join our Hong Kong office for a summer internship. The candidate will be working in several projects across portfolio management, trade execution, economics research and other areas of the firm. Through these projects, the candidate is expected to contribute meaningfully by generating tangible deliverables to be incorporated in the firm’s daily operations. In return, the candidate should walk away with a deeper understanding of how investment decisions are made in a global macro hedge fund.

• →Develop, implement and back-test systematic trading strategies in FX and rates.
• →Design, develop and automate the generation of advance data visualization of macroeconomics data.
• →Automate regression and other data analytics on external and internal financial data.
• →Automate end-of-day trade checking for the execution team.
• →Optimize and standardize commonly requested tasks into efficient prompts and modules for the internal large language model to process.

• Currently studying in a technical discipline including but not limited to Computer Engineering, Quantitative Finance and/or Econometrics.
• Work or project experience utilizing artificial intelligence and other technologies to solve real-world problems
• Basic understanding of accounting, economics and financial markets.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• Summer internship based in our Hong Kong office.