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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.\niSAM is an innovative, financial technology firm specialising in quantitative trading, comprised of iSAM Funds and iSAM Securities.\niSAM Securities regulated by the FCA, SFC, and CIMA registered, is a leading algorithmic trading firm and trusted electronic market maker, providing liquidity, technology and prime services to institutional clients and trading venues globally. 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Working closely with researchers, technologists and execution specialists, you will help generate and test new investment ideas, improve existing strategies, and support the full research lifecycle - from hypothesis generation and data analysis through to backtesting, implementation and live strategy monitoring. This is an opportunity for an early-career researcher to gain hands-on experience in a collaborative, research-driven investment environment, contributing directly to the continued development of a large systematic fund. You will join a systematic fund serving institutional investors, with exposure to the full strategy lifecycle from research through to live trading. 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