2027 Spring Investment Management Fixed Income Co-op Program Quantitative Analytics amp; Technology Boston

About the role

Six-month Boston co-op with Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Fixed Income Quantitative Analytics & Technology teams. Participants apply programming, quantitative, and analytical skills to investment-management challenges, working with portfolio managers, researchers, analysts, and business professionals on data, models, automation, reporting, and tools supporting fixed-income investment decisions.

Team Placements

• Potential teams include Emerging Markets Debt Quantitative Research and Quantitative Data Analysis.
• Additional placements include Municipal Bonds Data & Quant, Mortgage & Securitized Investments, and Floating Rate Loans.
• Candidates may interview with multiple teams based on their background, interests, qualifications, and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct quantitative research, develop and test models, and support investment strategies using financial and market data.
• Build automated workflows, analytical tools, dashboards, reports, and visualizations using Python, SQL, or similar technologies.
• Manage, cleanse, validate, and analyze large datasets from multiple sources, including market, holdings, and alternative data.
• Develop infrastructure, integrate new data sources, and monitor differences between modeled and live investment strategy performance.
• Support model development, testing, monitoring, risk analytics, portfolio analytics, and investment reporting.
• Complete ad hoc technology, analytics, quantitative, trading, reporting, and financial analysis projects.