Services
Deep Talent Research
We go beyond the traditional search for candidates, instead focusing on intentional deep research and market mapping. Our market mapping is a comprehensive exploration of the talent landscape tailored to your unique needs. We identify the brightest stars and hidden gems within specific niches and create clear roadmaps to the best talent.
Team Lifts
We recognize moving an engineering leader or portfolio manager may involve a team transition in order to be effective in their new role. It’s a delicate, complex process requiring a unique and strategic approach. We handle these intricate moves with the utmost care and professionalism, while helping preserve team dynamics and talent.
Competitive Intelligence
Data is paramount to strategic decision making. We provide comprehensive insights into the talent landscape and industry counterparts by meticulously gathering and analyzing data on talent attraction and retention strategies, compensation and benefit packages, and workforce hiring trends. Our competitive intelligence allows clients and candidates to make informed decisions and stay steps ahead of the field.
Process Improvement
A clear, informative, and repeatable recruitment process is critical to effectively evaluating talent. We assist a diverse range of clients, from startup hedge funds to large institutions, overhaul their recruiting processes. We help clients build seamless recruitment processes that are fair, transparent, and repeatable by focusing on implementing robust sourcing/recruiting frameworks, interview standardization, and establishing a post-interview review process.
Areas of Expertise
Quantitative Research
Quantitative researchers use mathematical and statistical models to analyze data and identify investment opportunities uncorrelated with the market (alpha). We excel at finding talented researchers capable of consistently generating and outperforming the market, whether those focused on data driven AI/ML research, price, fundamentals, or other alpha generating approaches.
Portfolio construction modelling focuses on assembling a portfolio of assets or blending alphas based specific investment objectives and constraints. We specialize in connecting you with these quantitative researchers skilled in asset allocation, optimization, risk management, and real-time algorithmic portfolio monitoring to achieve superior returns and manage risk effectively.
Trade execution and optimization researchers specialize in transaction cost modelling, market impact, order routing, and the development of sophisticated order execution algorithms. We excel in connecting you with professionals who leverage their expertise to ensure cost-effective, efficient, and strategically optimized trade executions in today’s dynamic markets.
For multi-manager hedge funds and proprietary trading firms, we focus on finding individuals who have developed, managed, and run their own trading strategies that meet specific Sharpe, capital, holding period, and max draw-down requirements.
We look for creative data scientists think outside the box and can harness alternative data sources to uncover valuable insights and emerging trends. We connect you with professionals who excel in transforming raw data into actionable information, driving data-informed decision-making and alpha generation in the ever-evolving landscape of finance and technology.
Technology
Data engineering is the backbone of data-driven decision-making. Our expertise in sourcing for data engineers ensures access to professionals skilled in designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines and databases, enabling seamless data flow and accessibility for your teams.
Infrastructure engineering expertise is vital for building the foundation of scalable and reliable technology systems. Our expertise in sourcing for infrastructure engineers ensures access to professionals skilled in building and optimizing infrastructure solutions that support high-performance applications, network architecture, and cloud services.
Modelling engineering enables predictive analytics and algorithm development. Our expertise in sourcing for modeling engineers ensures access to professionals skilled in building the platforms and tools that researchers use to create, test, and deploy quantitative models and strategies.
Platform engineering is the foundation for other engineers’ success. Our expertise in sourcing for platform engineers ensures access to professionals who excel in creating and nurturing the higher-level tools, services, and environments that empower developers to efficiently build and deploy applications.
Trading engineering focuses on building and maintaining low-latency, high-throughput trading systems and platforms. Our expertise in sourcing for trading platform engineers ensures traders, portfolio managers, and execution & optimization research teams have a trading platform that is at the forefront of technology allowing them to capture market opportunities with minimal added costs.