HIP Investor is seeking talented individuals to help us apply our innovative framework and analyze leading companies to create HIP Portfolios available for investors the first offering of its kind. Launched in the Summer 2009, these portfolios include companies from leading indices and compete against traditional investments standards with a focus on sustainable, profitable growth instead of traditional weightings based on market value.
This is an incredible opportunity to work with our team of sustainability experts and to have your research published in HIP Portfolios and gain firsthand experience in analyzing companies and investors driving to sustainability. Change the face of sustainable investing and transforming the world of investments. The internship will include the following responsibilities:
Role
- Lead research on specific industries and analyze top companies using the innovative HIP methodology
- Research financial publications, quarterly financial reports, annual reports, corporate social responsibility reports and third party evaluation metrics
- Create HIP Scorecards(SM) highlighting companies’ Human Impact, management practice and profit results
- Work with the team to develop weightings for our next products, the HIP 500 Index and a HIP 30 Fund to compete against the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills
- Demonstrated understanding of and experience in financial analysis
- Deep interest in social measurement tools and outcomes
- Agile to interviews senior executives on the phone or in person
- Great team player who can also work independently
- Commit a minimum of 15 hours a week for a minimum of eight weeks
Compensation
This is an unpaid internship with the possibility of a bonus once portfolios attract customers. It is an unparalleled opportunity to transform the face of investing and be directly involved in building a new investment product.
To Apply
Please email (1) an attached resume and (2) a cover note in the body of your email to our Talent Team at TalentTeam@HIPInvestor.com with the ROLE you seek in the title, followed by your name in the subject line.
DEADLINE: Rolling through 2012
HIP = “Human Impact + Profit.” HIP Investor Inc. is a registered investment adviser in CA, WA and IL. HIP offers investment management services to individuals, foundations, trusts, estates and corporations. The HIP 100 Index (SM) is a portfolio and separately managed account (SMA) that reweights all S&P100 equities. HIP’s systematic quantitative HIP Scorecard (SM) is published in leading journals – and evaluates how sustainability links to shareholder value. “The HIP Investor” book, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2010, is available online in e-book, and at leading booksellers. Please see www.HIPinvestor.com for more information, and full disclosures on investment performance.
