Equanime -Trader

BW; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

BWGI, the equity asset manager behind Brasil Warrant, seeks portfolio managers to drive execution across fundamental, systematic, flow-based and event-driven strategies on the Equanime platform.

You will work with investment teams to implement decisions, optimize costs, and strengthen trading infrastructure while maintaining disciplined risk controls and compliance across the trading lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Execute trades across multiple investment strategies within the Equanime platform, ensuring efficient implementation of portfolio decisions and adherence to investment mandates.
• Support the continued development and scaling of the Equanime trading function, contributing to best practices, infrastructure, and operational excellence.
• Optimize transaction costs and execution quality through effective market analysis, broker engagement, and trading process enhancements.
• Maintain a disciplined, compliant, and risk-aware trading process in partnership with Compliance and Risk teams.
• Collaborate closely with Portfolio Managers, CIOs, and investment teams to support portfolio implementation, execution strategy, and investment decision-making.
• Provide market color, liquidity insights, and execution intelligence to investment teams to inform trading and portfolio management activities.
• Contribute to portfolio construction discussions by providing input on liquidity, implementation considerations, risk exposures, and hedging opportunities.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with brokers, counterparties, and market participants to enhance execution capabilities and information flow.
• Support negotiation, review, and maintenance of trading-related legal documentation and broker agreements.
• Contribute to the design, enhancement, and implementation of trading technology and infrastructure, including systems such as FlexTrade and Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) tools.
• Assist in onboarding new investment strategies, products, and trading workflows across the multi-strategy platform.
• Participate in the broker vote process and support ongoing evaluation of broker performance and execution quality.
• Support business continuity and contingency planning efforts to ensure resilience of trading operations.
• Collaborate across investment, operations, risk, compliance, technology, and data teams to drive continuous improvement of the trading platform and processes.

Job description

BWGI, the wholly owned asset manager of Brasil Warrant, has formed the Equity Multi-Strategy Platform as an additional investment vertical. The Equity Multi-Strategy Platform expects to hire portfolio managers across fundamental, systematic, flow-based and event-driven equity alpha strategies. Brasil Warrant has been in existence for over 100 years, managing, operating and acting as a controlling shareholder of businesses across various industries, including financial services. BWGI provides the infrastructure, processes and capital of a large-scale institutional asset manager while, at the same time, offering duration, permanence and a long-term investment horizon.

Key Responsibilities

Execute trades across multiple investment strategies within the Equanime platform, ensuring efficient implementation of portfolio decisions and adherence to investment mandates.

Support the continued development and scaling of the Equanime trading function, contributing to best practices, infrastructure, and operational excellence.

Optimize transaction costs and execution quality through effective market analysis, broker engagement, and trading process enhancements.

Maintain a disciplined, compliant, and risk-aware trading process in partnership with Compliance and Risk teams.

Collaborate closely with Portfolio Managers, CIOs, and investment teams to support portfolio implementation, execution strategy, and investment decision-making.

Provide market color, liquidity insights, and execution intelligence to investment teams to inform trading and portfolio management activities.

Contribute to portfolio construction discussions by providing input on liquidity, implementation considerations, risk exposures, and hedging opportunities.

Develop and maintain strong relationships with brokers, counterparties, and market participants to enhance execution capabilities and information flow.

Support negotiation, review, and maintenance of trading-related legal documentation and broker agreements.

Contribute to the design, enhancement, and implementation of trading technology and infrastructure, including systems such as FlexTrade and Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) tools.

Assist in onboarding new investment strategies, products, and trading workflows across the multi-strategy platform.

Participate in the broker vote process and support ongoing evaluation of broker performance and execution quality.

Support business continuity and contingency planning efforts to ensure resilience of trading operations.

Collaborate across investment, operations, risk, compliance, technology, and data teams to drive continuous improvement of the trading platform and processes.