Client Investment Research Analyst - Investor Relations Team

About the Client Service Department

The goal of Client Service is to build and grow meaningful relationships with the world’s largest, most sophisticated investors and help clients achieve their goals through high quality return streams and tailored insights. To this end, we deeply understand the global pools of capital, develop strategies to effectively develop relationships, and partner with clients on their most difficult investment and portfolio construction problems. We help our clients broaden their understanding of our investment process, strategies and performance as well as deepen their understanding of financial markets more generally.

About Your Role

Client Investment Research Analysts play a vital role in service of Bridgewater’s overall client service strategy across our front office departments – the Alpha Engine, Total Portfolio Strategies, and Client Service. Analysts act as the primary support to Bridgewater’s Strategists, a small group of senior investors appointed by Bridgewater’s co-CIOs to partner directly with our clients on their most important Research priorities. Day-to-day work includes collaborating with Strategists, Client Advisors, asset class teams, and our CIOs to define approaches on how to handle different client-focused research projects and execute on them through research, analysis, and project management, culminating in novel investment insights that informs out clients’ thinking. From their unique position at the heart of Bridgewater’s client-focused research activity, these individuals have an aerial view into our ever-evolving perspectives on world markets, high-impact company-wide projects and our investment philosophy and processes. 

Bridgewater’s market-driven approach to client service requires our Analysts to continually expand their understanding and knowledge of the markets. Through formal training and informal on-the-job instruction, Analysts become well-versed in our investment approach, process and different strategies, our book of business, and our production systems. 

As a Client Investment Research Analyst for the Investor Relations team, you will partner with Client Advisors and Strategists to provide clients with insights and advice to address their questions about Bridgewater’s strategies, performance, and portfolio positions. You will also be exposed to the full breadth of Bridgewater strategies, regularly working with different types of content and project managing across pillars and disciplines. 

Successful Client Investment Research Analysts will:

• Develop a holistic understanding of portfolios and portfolio management principles
• Understand the depth and breadth of Bridgewater’s market knowledge as well as its pioneering work in institutional asset management and alpha and beta separation
• Contribute to Bridgewater’s world-class client service strategy through creative thinking about how to generate insights and convey key messages to our clients about our investment philosophy, strategies, performance and outlook in the markets.

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Understand Bridgewater’s book of business, related commercial strategy and our investment thinking
• Strategize with Client Advisors, other Research teams and investment professionals (at times including CIOs and other Sr. Researchers) and help develop best approach to handle client requests, enable high quality client engagements
• Apply analytical skills, market knowledge, and an understanding of Bridgewater’s investment methodology to create insights to help shape clients’ investment thinking or deliver client-ready portfolio position and performance reports to allow our Client Advisors, Investment Strategists and Chief Investment Officers to tell the Bridgewater investment story in a rich and accurate way
• Project manage complex engagements across various senior stakeholders and departments to ensure quality and efficient delivery of work products
• Engage with and contribute to the creation of Bridgewater’s leverageable content suite, using it to effectively respond to client requests
• Work creatively with existing methodologies and tools to identify and solve problems in how we serve clients by simultaneously contributing to the creation of new tools, models, and or “machines” to automate and streamline our processes

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.

Minimum Qualifications

The Client Investment Research Analyst role is a great opportunity to transition into Bridgewater. While the position does not require deep experience in asset management, preferred candidates will have prior experience within a related and similarly fast-paced professional services environment. We are looking for intellectually curious, energetic individuals who can learn quickly and are aggressive problem-solvers. Candidates should meet the following criteria:

• 1-3 years in a Finance, Consulting or otherwise relevant analytical and conceptual role.
• Bachelors or Masters degree, preferably in STEM, Economics or Finance (or related degrees), with a strong academic and extracurricular track record
• Interest for and understanding of markets and economies
• Ability to solve complex problems through data analysis
• Aptitude for creative quantitative work involving financial and economic data
• Experience in writing and synthesizing large amounts of information, preferably with a macroeconomic focus

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment firm, founded in 1975, whose mission is to develop a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of how markets and economies work—and translate that understanding into insights, returns, and solutions that help the world’s leading institutional investors solve their most important investment challenges. 

Over five decades, we have codified our fundamental understanding into a systematic investment process—integrating human judgment with machine intelligence with the goal of applying our thinking consistently, testing it against reality, and continuously improving decision-making over time. We believe this has created a unique platform for applying AI within our process, positioning us at the frontier of integrating technology with investment decision-making. 

In financial markets—where reality is constantly evolving and outcomes are uncertain—sustained excellence requires continuous learning and improvement. Our culture—anchored in radical truth and transparency—helps us learn faster. 

Find more information about Bridgewater on our website.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s culture is anchored in the pursuit of excellence—tied directly to our mission. In financial markets, where the base case is failure and reality is constantly evolving, winning requires continuous learning and improvement. Truth is our most essential tool for improvement, and transparency helps us get closer to truth because it places many eyes on our decisions, problems, and mistakes. By understanding reality clearly, we can identify the gap between where we are and where we want to be—and use that knowledge to learn and get better. Our system that supports this way of being is an idea meritocracy, where we commit to finding and rewarding the best ideas regardless of hierarchy. 

Operating in these ways is hard. Finding truth and learning through it is inherently a high-friction cycle. It’s possible because we share a few core values: a commitment to honesty, high ownership, deeply meaningful work and relationships, and building Bridgewater as a big tent where vast differences are welcomed. These values create the common denominator that binds us together in good times and bad. 

Benefits

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits, including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits. Find more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website. 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations. 

Sponsorship

Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $130,000-$260,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 75% - 85% of this wage range.  

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer