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The firm offers full-service prime brokerage and execution via its cutting-edge proprietary technology, as well as market leading analytics, cleared through the group’s bank Prime Brokers.\niSAM Funds is an alternative asset manager specialising in systematic investing. Each strategy is unique, provides a specialist quantitative approach and is designed to deliver highly diversifying absolute returns for institutional portfolios.\nRole: PhD Quantitative Research Internship\nBase Office: London\n\nAbout the Role:\niSAM is offering Quantitative Research Internship opportunities for PhD students in their penultimate year of study in a quantitative discipline. 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