Overview

Job Description Job Description About New Frontier Advisors New Frontier Advisors is a quantitative investment research, technology, and advisory firm that translates rigorous portfolio theory into practical investment solutions for financial advisors and institutions. For more than 25 years, New Frontier has advanced portfolio construction under estimation uncertainty. Our proprietary Michaud Optimization and Intelligent Rebalancing methodologies support live multi-asset portfolios, institutional technology relationships, and FrontierOne, our portfolio decisioning platform. We combine the intellectual standards of a research institution with the accountability of an investment manager: research must be analytically defensible, economically sensible, explainable, implementable, and useful to investors.The Opportunity Help lead the next stage of New Frontier's investment research and portfolio-construction capabilities. We are seeking a senior, hands-on quantitative investment researcher who combines academic depth with strong investment judgment. The right person can move comfortably from a difficult optimization or empirical research problem to an Investment Committee discussion, a production decision, or a client meeting. You will personally lead major research projects, help set the research agenda, write and review quantitative analysis, translate approved research into live portfolios and technology, and represent New Frontier's investment thinking externally. You will report to the CIO and serve on the Investment Committee. Initially, it is an individual-contributor leadership role that mentors current researchers and helps build the team over time.Research Leadership & Investment Insight Partner with the CIO and Investment Committee to prioritize the research agenda and own deep, multi-month projects from question through decision. Advance our work on estimation, optimization, asset allocation, risk modeling, and rebalancing under uncertainty. Apply strong economic intuition to evolving global relationships among growth, inflation, rates, credit, equity risk, currencies, and diversification; distinguish relevant investment structure from statistical noise.Optimization, Empirical Research & Portfolio Design: Formulate hypotheses, evaluate data, design experiments, and develop and challenge quantitative methods. Work deeply on optimization and estimation problems, including robustness to estimation error, constraints, model uncertainty, regime changes, and implementation frictions. Refine dynamic estimates of global risk and return relationships across equity, fixed income, and alternative markets. Refine and enhance the investment process: assess model performance, stability, and unintended consequences.Research-to-Production & Engineering Develop and maintain research code and experiment pipelines in Python, MATLAB, R, or comparable tools, with high standards for reproducibility, testing, peer review, documentation, and data lineage. Translate approved research into portfolio guidelines, methodological specifications, monitoring rules, rebalancing logic, and production requirements in partnership with technology and data professionals. Contribute to FrontierOne and other productized capabilities, including household-level, tax-aware, constraints-aware, and objective-driven portfolio construction where relevant.Investment Committee, Clients & Thought Leadership: Present conclusions, limitations, trade-offs, and portfolio implications clearly and objectively, and exercise independent judgment when evidence challenges existing assumptions. Translate complex quantitative ideas into credible investment conclusions for advisors, clients, institutions, and enterprise partners; participate in client and prospect discussions when research or portfolio design is central. Author research papers, white papers, investment notes, and presentations; present internally and externally; mentor researchers and review research design, code