Nuveen is the investment management arm of TIAA and one of the largest global asset managers. They have specialist knowledge across a wide array of asset classes, including fixed income, equities, and alternatives. Nuveen is driven by independent investment processes, insights, risk management, analytics, and other tools that a world-class platform provides. Their mission is to partner with clients to create outcome-focused solutions to help secure their financial future. For more information, visit their website at www.Nuveen.com.
What sets Nuveen apart?
A heritage of excellence: Proven performance across a wide range of portfolio offerings since 1898.
Global scale: Recognised as one of the largest investment managers in the world with specialist expertise around the globe.
Investing alongside clients: Investing materially alongside clients ensures strong alignment with their interests.
Financial stability with a long-term focus: Private ownership under TIAA expands their scale and resources while reinforcing long-term investment.
Who are Gresham Quant?
Gresham Quant (GQ) is a small, entrepreneurial and collegial team, focused on high performance. GQ is responsible for the multi-award-winning systematic CTA strategy ‘ACAR’, now managing around $1.5bio. Alongside this we have a new systematic fixed income product, trading a variety of instruments.
GQ is part of Gresham (greshamllc.com), a multi-billion dollar asset manager with a long and successful history in commodities and futures markets, and benefits from the backing of Nuveen and TIAA, a trillion dollar family of investment funds and affiliates.
Summer internship opportunities
Projects: There are several projects that you may be undertaking: from constructing Mexican yield curves, to investigating new commodity markets. From exploring fundamental supply and demand of Ethanol, to understanding how bonds and equities interact.
Valued Member: You will be a valued member from the outset, and we promise to invest and ensure your own professional growth. You can expect to have significant impact with your work.
Looking ahead: You can expect competitive compensation and benefits, with participation in the team’s performance driven variable compensation pool if the position becomes permanent.
What you'll get
- 10-Week Program: Participate in meaningful research alongside a team of experienced practitioners that will offer the opportunity for career growth and personal development.
- Hands-On Experience: Ability to gain hands on experience as well as getting an overall feel for the firm/ industry by attending business meetings, delivering presentations, exploring business-specific tasks, contributing to projects and working closely with cross-functional groups.
- Career Opportunities: Potential to secure a permanent role upon graduation.
What we’re looking for
- Academic Excellence: a hard science/mathematics/computer science background.
- Python Skills: Familiarity with Python and its associated libraries, as well as the numerical libraries e.g. Pandas, Numpy.
- Data: Strong data analysis and hypothesis testing skills.
- Best Practices: Understanding and appreciation of best research practices.
- Ownership: The drive to deliver a piece of work from start to finish, and to take ownership of issues.
- Clear Coding: The ability to write clear code that can be easily understood by others.
- Team Player: Openness and honesty with the team and being happy to ask for help when needed.
- Interest in Trading: An interest in systematic trading, with the desire to learn more about the business.
Due to a high volume of applications
- We will only consider students in their penultimate year graduating in 2026.
- We will only consider applicants who have the right to live and work in the country for where the internship is located.
- You must be able to work the internship dates of 23rd June – 29th August 2025.
Nuveen is committed to providing equal opportunity across all employment practices and we believe our employees have a right to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Nuveen offers support for those who need assistance with our online application process to provide an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities.
