Hedge Fund Economist – Los Angeles, CA
Description: Los Angeles based hedge fund seeks an economist with strong econometric skills to join the quant research team. he team is in charge of designed and developed models for short-run forecasting for various economic indicators as well as models for Long-run forecasting for major macro variables.
Qualifications: You must have experience of using economic forecasting models to predict for financial variables, back testing economically-motivated strategies for trading, doing analysis of economic time series for large countries, and developing robust and parsimonious forecasting models for economic time series.
The role will involve:
-Building macroeconomic forecasting models
-Provide quantitative analysis to the Economics group as well as modeling and forecasting of macro and financial variables
-Designed and developed models for short-run and long-run forecasting
