Emerging Country Debt Summer Intern

Company Profile

Founded in 1977, GMO is a global investment manager committed to delivering superior long-term investment performance and advice to our clients. We offer strategies and solutions where we believe we are positioned to add the greatest value for our investors. These include multi-asset class, equity, fixed income, and alternative offerings.

We manage approximately $65bn for a client base that includes many of the world’s most sophisticated institutions, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Industry-wide, we are well known for our focus on valuation-based investing, willingness to take bold positions when conditions warrant, and candid and academically rigorous thought leadership. Jeremy Grantham, GMO’s Co-Founder and Long-Term Investment Strategist, is renowned as an expert in identifying speculative investment bubbles and also as a leading climate investor and advocate.

GMO is privately owned and employs over 430 people worldwide. We are headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in Europe, Asia and Australia. Our company-wide culture emphasizes commitment to clients, intellectual curiosity, and open debate. We celebrate and respect our differences, while embracing and valuing what each of us brings to work, as we know that diverse teams in an inclusive, caring environment achieve higher engagement and better client results.

Please follow the prompts included in this job posting to apply. The application window for this role is anticipated to remain open until the job is filled, or as otherwise determined by GMO.

Position Overview

GMO is seeking an intern to join our Emerging Country Debt (“ECD”) investment team. The ECD Intern will contribute to the ECD team’s work, which focuses on generating excess return relative to our benchmarks or client objectives and producing thought leadership and pitch materials for marketing as well as client review materials.  The Intern will develop and improve his or her investment and communication skills by working closely with the team’s researchers, portfolio managers, traders as well as Fixed Income strategy and product management.

The position will be based in Boston where GMO is operates in a hybrid work model.  The ECD intern and their manager will agree on an appropriate in-office/remote schedule.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

·         Familiarize themselves with the investment approach of the ECD team and their competitors

·         Develop a set of marketing materials that highlight the team’s unique style and capabilities in light of this familiarization

Required Skills and Characteristics:

·         Current undergraduate student with a demonstrated success in their chosen field of study and extracurricular endeavors.

·         Strong Excel and power point skills.

·         This role is ideal for proactive, intellectually curious people, who can prioritize, multi-task, manage time sensitive  deadlines and strive in a team-oriented, collegial and collaborative environment

·         Analytical and problem-solving skills: must be able to synthesize information, identify the most important elements, and arrive at a conclusion

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills are critical, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with a wide array of investment professionals and other internal partners at GMO.

GMO is committed to the recruitment, employment, and promotion of all candidates equally, regardless of an individual's gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability (except where such disability is a bona fide occupational disqualification) or any other classification protected under federal, state or local law.