Our firm is the destination for ambitious investment professionals looking to define best in class.
We aim to be the most successful investment team in the world and provide our professionals with everything they need to master the art and science of investing.
We encourage our world-class talent to arrive at the best ideas through collaboration. In digging deeper together, we focus on the concepts that have greatest potential for commercial impact.
Each individual receives the best possible training based on their unique needs, from early career to senior manager. Tailored, bespoke guidance helps maximize the potential of our investment professionals.
Consistently developing strong investment ideas and contributing meaningfully to the team can result in greater opportunities.
We develop tomorrow’s portfolio managers. Our leaders invest in our associates and desk strategists by providing continual, on-the-desk mentoring that drives constant learning and growth.
Our investment professionals benefit from extraordinary resources, enabling them to focus singularly on investing:
As a research-led organization, our investing teams continually discover and act on differentiated investment ideas.
Research is at the core of what we do. Our team seeks unexplored hypotheses and differentiated investment ideas. To find them, they ask incisive questions, collaborating with industry experts, data scientists and corporate management teams.
Here, the best idea always wins. To invest with conviction, our team puts their ideas to the test through modeling, backtesting and debate.
When it’s time to execute on ideas, our traders use their understanding of financial markets and cutting-edge technology to execute efficiently and cost-effectively.
Leveraging sophisticated tools, our investment professionals manage capital with discipline. Their goal: act efficiently on our investment ideas across market cycles and unexpected events.
Our team collaborates closely with Portfolio Construction and Risk Group professionals who are experts in their sector. Their goal is to construct each portfolio to optimize risk and reward, given the investment strategy.
Our immersive internship and graduate program combines a targeted curriculum with practical instruction from world-class investment professionals. Early-career professionals gain hands-on experience across our equities strategies, putting them on track for full-time opportunities at the firm.
Wherever you are on your academic journey, we offer incredible opportunities to learn a role and start a rewarding career.
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Associates learn fundamental skills by driving the daily investment research process and building, honing and incorporating data into financial models. They also learn how to generate investment ideas.
Analysts generate investment ideas through deep industry, sector and company research. They work closely with portfolio managers to develop and implement these ideas. Many of our analysts actively deploy capital or assist in portfolio construction.
Portfolio managers are the architects of their team’s portfolio, monitoring, managing and overseeing deployment of capital. They make critical decisions supported by skill, research and strategy. They also manage their team, developing new talent and optimizing performance.
Citadel traders use best-in-class technology to execute investment ideas efficiently, leveraging up-to-the-minute market knowledge and industry domain expertise. On the Global Quantitative Research team, traders execute our quantitative trading strategies.
Hear our colleagues talk about their experiences at Citadel.
Extraordinary Colleagues: Julia
Hear how Julia translated her passion for math into a rewarding career in investing.
Extraordinary Colleagues: Francesco
Francesco’s curiosity and determination propelled his rapid rise within the commodities team. In five years he rose from analyst to co-head of portfolio construction in the fast-growing team.
Extraordinary Colleagues: Colleen
Colleen joined Citadel to research and analyze businesses. Her drive to find the right answer was quickly recognized. After three years, she shared her ambition to invest and became an investment associate focusing on the consumer sector.
Investment professionals work across all major asset classes and geographies.
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