Fixed Income Research Analyst
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Job Location:
Milwaukee, WI - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a Fixed Income Analyst to work with Baird Financial Advisors to find attractive fixed income investment opportunities for our clients. This includes knowledge of all traditional Fixed Income products including: municipal bonds corporate bonds CDs Agencies etc. This person will also work closely with Fixed Income trading to identify available inventory to execute Fixed Income recommendations.
Some of the day-to-day responsibilities will involve writing a daily fixed income morning update email (6:30am CT start time) to keep FAs apprised of relevant fixed income and economic data. Responsibilities also include working with FAs on account reviews constructing portfolios or new money proposals (e.g. bond ladders) and handling incoming phone calls/requests to the Fixed Income Research area.
Work from Bairds global headquarters in Milwaukee WI with hybrid flexiblity.
The Impact Youll Make:
- Support Baird Financial Advisors in facilitating their Fixed Income business. This includes but is not limited to handling day-to-day questions researching specific credits and researching event-driven fixed income topics.
- Work closely with Senior Fixed Income Analyst(s) in writing regular comments on fixed income markets.
- Performing account reviews and developing portfolio proposals including researching specific credits as needed.
- Work from Bairds global headquarters in Milwaukee WI 3 days/week with hybrid flexiblity.
- Travel to Chicago once per month to meet as a broader Fixed Income team.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
What Youll Bring to Baird:
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting business or other related field.
- 3-5 years of Fixed Income credit experience or completion of an applied securities analysis program in lieu of experience.
- Excellent analytical written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong initiative and work ethic and an ability to work well both within a team and on a self-directed basis.
- Experience with Bloomberg.
- Experience with Bond Works preferred.
- Series 7 and 63 (or must be willing to obtain within six months of hire); CFA (current or pursuing) preferred.
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Baird is committed to diversity and provides employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy citizenship national origin age disability military service veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression genetic information or any other status protected by law.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Spss
- Data Collection
- R
- Stata
- Research Experience
- Statistical Software
- Data Mining
- Calculus
- Market Research
- Operations Research
- SAS
- Data Analysis Skills
About Company
Baird is an employee-owned wealth management, capital markets, asset management and private equity firm. Leveraging our deep expertise and broad skills, we're dedicated to providing the best advice and service to our individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients.
