Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.
Headquartered in London, we manage $227.6 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com
* As at 31 December 2025
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Quantitative Research Intern – Specialist Equities
Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.
Headquartered in London, we manage $227.6 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com
* As at 31 December 2025
Location: Hong Kong SAR Duration: 3–4 months, starting 2026 Eligibility: Final year students (Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD) The Team Join the Specialist Equities team, a small and collaborative systematic equity research group focused on developing medium-frequency statistical arbitrage alpha signals. You will receive day-to-day mentorship from a quantitative researcher in Hong Kong, with core supervision and high-level exposure to portfolio managers and senior management in London. Position Overview You will own a research project end-to-end, taking a disciplined scientific approach to form hypotheses, construct signals, and iterate towards deployable outcomes. The project scope is defined on our side and will be closely tailored to your specific background and strengths once we've met you. During the internship, you will:
Research time-series methods, advanced statistical techniques, and machine learning models to extract predictive value from complex datasets.
Analyze large, noisy, real-world data sets to identify systematic trading opportunities.
Help develop statistical and ML-based tools and techniques to solve complex data-related problems throughout the research process.
Typical Day
Your primary focus throughout the day will be on researching new statistical techniques, exploring datasets, and prototyping signal variants.
Apply critical thinking at every step—rigorously backtesting ideas, diagnosing overfitting, and questioning your own assumptions.
Discuss and present research results with your immediate team, portfolio managers, and senior management, actively incorporating their feedback.
Document your work cleanly and clearly so colleagues can easily build upon your findings.
Required Qualifications
Quantitative Background: Pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in computer science, statistics, machine learning, signal processing, optimization, mathematics, physics, or a related STEM subject.
Research Excellence: Demonstrated ability to conduct high-quality, in-depth, and rigorous research on real-world data, along with the ability to communicate complex results clearly to both technical peers and senior stakeholders.
Programming Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Python, with a solid understanding of data structures, algorithmic complexity, and numerical libraries (e.g., pandas, numpy).
Statistical & ML Knowledge: Strong grasp of probability, statistics, linear algebra, time-series analysis, and machine learning, including the practical ability to recognize and mitigate overfitting.
Team Player: Strong communication skills with the ability to work well in a collaborative, high-pace setting, driving projects to completion across accelerated timelines and coordinating with colleagues across multiple regions.
Nice to Have
Prior internship in quantitative research or systematic investing.
Hands-on experience working with noisy, large-scale financial or alternative datasets.
How to Apply Apply online with your CV and a short cover note. In your cover note, describe one real research or engineering problem you worked on: what you tried, what worked, what didn't, and what you would do differently.
Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity.
You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact TalentAcquisition@man.com.
Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.
Headquartered in London, we manage $227.6 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com
* As at 31 December 2025
To provide execution and order placement services to Man's investment engines.
Responsibilities:
Regulatory and legal framework
Be aware of and act in accordance with the regulatory and legal framework governing the trader's activities, including any relevant market abuse rules
To the extent applicable, understand and abide by relevant market risk limits and thresholds and prudential levels
Policies and Procedures
Know, understand and comply with Man's Global Compliance policies and any internal procedures relevant to the trader's business activities and with the requirements set out in Man's Staff Handbook and Global Code of Ethics as well as any global, regional and local compliance manuals
Obtain appropriate authorisation to trade pursuant to the PM's recorded instructions
Report regularly to their appointed line manager
At the end of each day, ensure that all transactions for which the trader is responsible for executing, have been recorded in the trading system correctly
Report any potential regulatory concerns to Compliance and to the appointed line manager. This includes any market activity of a suspicious nature as well as known or suspected breaches of regulation, exchange rules or firm policy
Best Execution
Continue to improve process to ensure Man meets its Best Execution obligations for Man's clients
Maximise alpha retention post investment decision through: - Robust framework for continuous evaluation and improvement of the execution process to minimise slippage and explicit trading costs - Application of quantitative methods combined with trading experience to decide and discuss with the PM, the optimal execution strategy to best match the PM’s trading and investment objectives
Leverage Trading Technology
Develop trading technology to improve execution toolkit
Embrace technology to help automate workflow
Drive development of our trading platform, infrastructure and technology.
Use qualitative and quantitative analysis to improve performance of our systematic and discretionary strategies.
Possess a strong understanding of Technology and a forward-thinking mindset, staying ahead of emerging developments and their practical applications.
Intermediate to advanced understanding of AI models and the ability to integrate AI-driven practices into trading desk workflows to drive meaningful optimisation.
Broker Execution Evaluation/Review
Oversight of broker roster and ensuring proper allocation of flow keeping in mind metrics of broker performance, coverage model, execution research and operational efficiency
Feedback to executing brokers of areas of improvement, ranking etc.
Prime Broker relationship management, to maintain and optimise said relationships
Liaison with operations teams to ensure no disruption or backlog with the brokers resulting in process bottlenecks leading to missed opportunities on the execution front in
Operational & Workflow Considerations
Ability to raise/cancel an order ticket, based on the PM’s recorded instructions, if required (this should not be viewed as standard practise)
Continue to be able to view PM’s holdings
Assist Middle Office to ensure timely matching of trades
Liaison with stock loan desk
0-2 years of experience trading in a financial institution or relevant technical experience.
Intermediate skill level - programming language such as Python, SQL
Solid general understanding of financial markets, complemented by a genuine enthusiasm and keen interest in market dynamics. · Hands-on attitude; willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm.
Strong academic record and a degree from a leading university.
Attention to detail and disciplined. Able to work under pressure and in a high-paced environment, with the ability to think quickly.
Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving. Curious, entrepreneurial, and innovative, willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm.
Strong inter-personal skills to enable communication across investment management teams and regions. Clear, concise, and transparent communicator.
Team player, collaborative, customer-focused and results-driven.
Strong proficiency in Mandarin both written and verbal
Willingness to travel and work from our Shanghai office
Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity.
You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact TalentAcquisition@man.com.
