Description
Are you looking for a company that values diversity, collaboration, and growth? The Columbia Threadneedle Investments Leadership Development Program offers meaningful work experience for emerging talent interested in a career in Asset Management.
The Investments Development Program (IDP) is a 24-month commitment crafted to cultivate your business knowledge, gain on-the-job training, network in a supportive, inclusive, team-based environment, have exposure to senior leaders and contribute to the success of the company through four, 6-month rotations.
With access to our Business Resource Networks – which includes the Black Employee Network, Young Professionals Network, PRIDE Network – you will increase your own sense of belonging and engage in relevant networking and development opportunities. Embark on this journey as a Investment Development Program Associate and lay the foundation for your future.
The IDP rotates through and completes work including but not limited to the following business areas:
Equity & Fixed Income Research
Portfolio Management Teams
Equity & Fixed Income Trading
After exploring the breadth of the business unit(s) through each rotation, IDPs may have the opportunity to post to a permanent position within Columbia Threadneedle.
Responsibilities
Perform financial modeling of industry, company and security information and assumptions
Provide market-related insight that helps Portfolio Managers identify relative value opportunities for the accounts
Act as point of contact for Wall Street counter-parties - aggregating axes, collecting and disseminating market color and executing trades
Develop and monitor a wide range of reports and analyses of the portfolios including investment performance trends and comparisons to client guidelines, indices, sector weightings and attribution analysis
Re-balance portfolios in response to cash flows, market price movements and changes in client guidelines
Required Qualifications
Current Senior at a 4-year university pursing a bachelor’s degree in business, economics, math, finance or science
Graduation date of December 2024 or May/June 2025
Commitment to complete the full 24-month Leadership Development Program
Preferred Qualifications
Student Leadership Experience
High level of intellectual curiosity and aptitude for solving complex problems
Proficient in Microsoft Tools
Programming skills in R, Python, SQL, VBA, MATLAB, or similar
Demonstrated interest in financial markets
The company does not offer corporate undergraduate internships for students with F-1 visas.
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About Our Company
We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of 2024. With our team of more than 20,000 people in 20 countries, we advise, manage and protect assets and income of more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.
Base Pay Salary
Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.
Full-Time/Part-Time
Exempt/Non-Exempt
Job Family Group
Line of Business
Requisition Number
R25_0000002816