2024 Mirae Asset Securities
Host Organization: Mirae Asset Securities
Website: https://english.securities.miraeasset.com
Organization Profile: Founded in 1999, Mirae Asset Securities is a leading securities firm in Asia and the top IB firm in Korea headquartered in Seoul, Korea. Drawing on the expertise of our global network of over 5,000 professionals in 15 markets including Korea, the US, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Indonesia, we operate a globally diversified investment platform, providing investors with a wide variety of investment solutions. We are continuing to expand our global footprint to become one of the world's top-tier IB, and offer competitive services across all core businesses, including IB, S&T, and wealth management, to help our clients find appropriate financial solutions and achieve their long-term goals.
City: Seoul
Internship format: In-person
Internship Department: Students may identify their top two preferred departments.
- Trading
- IB (Investment Banking)
- IT & Digital
- Global Business
- Research Center
Department profile:
- Trading: Provides a wide range of financial products in response to the diverse types of investment needs and preferences of our domestic and global clients such as stock, bonds, foreign currencies, and OTC derivatives
- IB (Investment Banking): Provides corporate clients with growth opportunities by structuring and executing various financial solutions including IPO, pre-IPO, Mezzanine, corporate bonds, acquisition financing, and project financing through which our investors can share the results of such growth
- IT & Digital: Secures future growth engines by entering new businesses, contributes to customer convenience and strengthens the competitiveness of the company by introducing contents and services based on new digital technologies
- Global Business: Contributes to achieving global business innovation by building regionally localized business models and increasing sales synergies between the HQ and overseas branches
- Research: Contributes to growing clients’ assets and improving sales by analyzing and preparing forecast data on the overall economy and financial markets both locally and globally
Project description:
- Trading:
- Learn various trading strategies and engage in trading financial products such as credit, interest rates, FX, equity-linked products, and global equities in the financial market
- Conduct research on domestic and global markets and various financial products to develop trading strategies
- IB:
- Assist with writing proposals for clients regarding corporate financing solutions such as IPOs, leveraged finance, bond issuance, and M&A deals
- Conduct research on equity capital markets, industries, and regulations to find domestic and global investment opportunities
- IT & Digital:
- Secure business growth engines by introducing contents and services for customers based on new digital technologies
- Global Business:
- Review and develop global business strategies by analyzing performance status of overseas subsidiaries
- Manage coordination and communication between the HQ and overseas subsidiaries
- Research:
- Conduct research on global economy and government policies, domestic/foreign financial markets, industries, and companies
- Coordinate and support domestic and global sales activities
Number of Opening(s): 1 per department
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 24 – August 16, 2024): Full time/Five days a week, 8am-5pm
Work attire: Business Casual
Local Language: Korean
Local Language level needed: Basic reading, writing, and speaking (one-year level at Stanford)
Additional desired intern qualifications:
Required Skills
- Basic understanding of finance and economics
- Comfortable working with numbers
- Analytical thinking skills
- Team player
- Language: Korean (basic communication skills)
Preferred Skills
- Language: Korean (intermediate to fluent communication skills)
- Trading: computer programming language skills (i.e. Python)
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