Abglobal is hiring a Credit Trader – Investment Grade to join our Global Fixed Income Trading team. This role within the Investment Grade Credit Desk offers significant opportunity to add value by contributing to IG investment teams and the broader credit and fixed income platform.
What You'll Do
- Develop and enhance an in-depth understanding of fixed income markets and portfolio investment philosophies.
- Execute orders and source liquidity consistent with best execution and risk management practices.
- Help drive the investment process by working closely with senior traders, portfolio managers, and analysts.
- Share market views in investment strategy discussions.
- Work on projects with senior traders to enhance trading efficiency and mitigate operational risk.
- Gather, analyze, and disseminate market and security information to identify actionable trade ideas.
- Represent the firm with the street, fostering new sell-side relationships and leveraging existing ones.
What We're Looking For
- Ability to work quickly and accurately in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong work ethic and attention to detail with a precision and risk management mindset.
- Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in a collaborative, team-based, results-oriented environment.
- Strong analytical skills and an ability to apply them in a highly practical fashion.
- A self-starter with a practice of proactive idea generation and continuous process improvement.
- Strong academic credentials, including a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field.
- 2-5 years of experience in a credit trading role, with a preference for IG or HY US markets exposure.
- Experience leveraging top LLM models to unlock unique insights for a data-driven process.
Nice to Have
- Programming skills, primarily Python and SQL, are a plus but not required.
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Global Fixed Income Trading team, working closely with other senior bond traders across Fixed Income, as well as portfolio managers, analysts, and quantitative research. This role reports to the Head of US HY Trading.
Work Mode
This position is onsite in Nashville, Tennessee.
All are encouraged to apply. AB does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
