Equanime -Trader

About this role

BWGI – Trader

• Equanime

BWGI, the wholly owned asset manager of Brasil Warrant, has formed the Equity Multi-Strategy Platform as an additional investment vertical. The Equity Multi-Strategy Platform expects to hire portfolio managers across fundamental, systematic, flow-based and event-driven equity alpha strategies. Brasil Warrant has been in existence for over 100 years, managing, operating and acting as a controlling shareholder of businesses across various industries, including financial services.

BWGI provides the infrastructure, processes and capital of a large-scale institutional asset manager while, at the same time, offering duration, permanence and a long-term investment horizon.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute trades across multiple investment strategies within the Equanime platform, ensuring efficient implementation of portfolio decisions and adherence to investment mandates.
• Support the continued development and scaling of the Equanime trading function, contributing to best practices, infrastructure, and operational excellence.
• Optimize transaction costs and execution quality through effective market analysis, broker engagement, and trading process enhancements.
• Maintain a disciplined, compliant, and risk-aware trading process in partnership with Compliance and Risk teams.
• Collaborate closely with Portfolio Managers, CIOs, and investment teams to support portfolio implementation, execution strategy, and investment decision-making.
• Provide market color, liquidity insights, and execution intelligence to investment teams to inform trading and portfolio management activities.
• Contribute to portfolio construction discussions by providing input on liquidity, implementation considerations, risk exposures, and hedging opportunities.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with brokers, counterparties, and market participants to enhance execution capabilities and information flow.
• Support negotiation, review, and maintenance of trading-related legal documentation and broker agreements.
• Contribute to the design, enhancement, and implementation of trading technology and infrastructure, including systems such as FlexTrade and Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) tools.
• Assist in onboarding new investment strategies, products, and trading workflows across the multi-strategy platform.
• Participate in the broker vote process and support ongoing evaluation of broker performance and execution quality.
• Support business continuity and contingency planning efforts to ensure resilience of trading operations.
• Collaborate across investment, operations, risk, compliance, technology, and data teams to drive continuous improvement of the trading platform and processes.