DC Investments Management LLC is a proprietary hedge fund manager and family office based in the Washington, DC metro area. The firm uses a combination of fundamental analysis and quantitative modeling to develop and transact global investment and trading opportunities. The DC Investments Management team includes 10-15 team members each with significant impact on the firm while its affiliates have more than 100 employees and 21 years of investment and trading experience providing a breadth of corporate resources.
Careers at DC Investments Management (DCIM)
We strive to be a principled, collegial, innovative, and dynamic firm, and we are seeking talented professionals who can build that culture and who enjoy the intellectual rigors, hard work, and practical realization of investing and trading. Our success is based upon thoughtful and fact-based reasoning and a process of open collaboration.
DCIM is committed to the development of talented individuals who, in turn, are crucial to the firm’s continued success and growth. In keeping with our view that raw horsepower and innate talent can be shaped and focused, our professionals share no common background, other than uncommonly sharp problem solving, analytic, and communicative skills. DCIM’s and its affiliates’ staff have academic backgrounds ranging from bachelor’s degrees to PhDs; they come from a vast array of focus areas, spanning the spectrum from astrophysics to zoology; chemists, economists and historians have all succeeded here. Our hiring is focused on the Analyst and Associate roles; we develop the vast majority of our professional and management team from internal advancement.
Through an intense introductory training program along with subsequent on-the-job mentoring, we provide our new hires with the extensive background needed to rapidly come up to speed. This provides a foundation in analytic methods for investment and trading problem solving, effective business communications, data extraction and programming techniques, and strategic thinking. We devote significant resources to the continual cultivation of our professionals; with robust channels for formal and informal feedback, we expect our new hires to grow into professionals capable of directing new initiatives and managing investment and trading portfolios.
The Analyst/Associate Positions
DC Investments Management is looking for top graduates who have a strong interest in assisting with the evaluation and development of global investments and trading strategies.
Ideal applicants possess the following qualities:
Passion and curiosity to explore global trading and investment opportunities
Interest in assessing fundamental business profit drivers, competition and strategy
Strong quantitative and analytical problem solving skills
Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively
Attention to detail, reliability
Entrepreneurial drive to seek out and exploit new market opportunities
Collegiality and the ability to work in teams
Honesty and candor
Additionally, programming experience is desirable but not required.
Analysts are central to DC Investments Management's team-based and rigorous approach to investing and trading, and are given significant responsibility from the outset. It is not uncommon for new hires to begin making an immediate impact on investments and trading within a few months of starting.
The firm has a fast-paced, open, and collaborative culture where ideas are frequently exchanged across teams, and team members are able to work across multiple asset classes and products.
Analysts assist across the entire development cycle, from idea generation, to research, forecasting, and modeling, and finally implementation and, in some cases, trading, giving a strong sense of ownership to each contributor.
Please note that DC Investments Management is not currently offering visa sponsorship. Candidates should have the right to work in the United States and should not require an employer sponsored visa from DC Investments Management going forward. DC Investments professionals work in our office in Northern Virginia.
Note that DC Investments Management professionals are employed by Dean & Company Strategy Consultants, LLC.