Fixed Income Trader

Company: The Ceres Group
Location: Boston
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Fixed Income Credit Trader to join our Global Fixed Income Trading Team. This role is critical in executing trades, developing trading strategies, and contributing to the advancement of our trading platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in fixed income markets, with expertise in credit trading (IG, Leveraged Finance, or CLOs), and relative value investment strategies. This role offers significant opportunities to add value to our business and work closely with senior traders, portfolio managers, research analysts, and quantitative researchers.Responsibilities

• Develop and implement trading strategies to maximize portfolio performance.
• Capable market-maker who utilizes relative value frameworks and knowledge of micro and macro market structure to drive value in the portfolio.
• Execute orders and source liquidity in line with our best execution and risk management practices.
• Trade both new issue and secondary markets across dedicated fixed income asset classes.
• Enhance and demonstrate insightful portfolio knowledge to drive positioning and inform trading strategies.
• Demonstrate asset class and macroeconomic knowledge by creating key market narratives and acting as a subject matter expert within LMI.
• Partner with portfolio managers and analysts to build sector/security selection recommendations, appropriately size risk in the portfolios, and determine macro impacts on sectors/names.
• Foster and maintain relationships with internal clients, brokers, and other market participants.
• Utilize technology to enhance trading efficiency.
• Gather, analyze, and disseminate market and security information to identify actionable trade ideas and investment opportunities.Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Computer Science, or a related field; Master's Degree or CFA preferred.
  • Minimum of 6-8 years' experience in fixed income trading, particularly within IG, High Yield, CLOs, or Bank Loan markets.
  • Proficiency in trading / portfolio platforms and financial software, including Bloomberg, Aladdin, MarketAxess, TradeWeb, and TruMid.
  • Strong understanding of credit portfolio management, credit analysis, and identifying relative value.
  • Experience with interest rate futures and credit derivatives (CDX) is a plus.
  • Ability to work quickly and accurately in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Self-starter with a proactive approach to generating ideas and improving processes.Local to Boston Hybrid
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