2025 Rogers Investment Advisors
Host Organization: Rogers Investment Advisors
Website: http://www.rogersia.com
Organization Profile: RIA through its Wolver Hill affiliates in Japan, Hong Kong, and US offers a range of Alternative and Traditional Investment strategies in various geographies: globally, in Asia, and in Japan.
Our award-winning team uniquely combines decades of experience in Trading, Investment, Asset Management, Prime Brokerage, Operations, and Financial Technology. This enables us to have a critical understanding of various investment strategies (from Hedge Funds to Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate, Infrastructure, etc.) and of key relationships for investment managers and investors. Our differentiated backgrounds have been key factors in our track record of outperformance.
City: Tokyo
Internship format: In-person
Project description:
The “internship” will consist of three parts: (1) tasks, (2) projects, and (3) a seminar called Finance for Alternative Strategies (FASt).
The tasks are mostly related to maintaining data, preparing marketing materials, doing news briefings, etc. The projects include research on performance of alternative investment strategies in various market cycles, portfolio construction, analysis of historical data, and market opportunity assessments. The Finance for Alternative Strategies (FASt) seminar covers the basics of finance necessary to understand alpha creation and the principles of investment and trading strategies.
We view our interns as true team members and aim to ensure that they are given real and challenging opportunities to assist the growth of our business. Our interns get to join our team project meetings and get to interact with our whole team on a variety of projects and topics.
The alternative investment (i.e. hedge funds and PE firms) industry – particularly in Asia – rarely takes interns, as alternative investment managers are typically small teams with extensive experience. This is a rare opportunity for highly motivated candidates to gain an overview of the global investment industry as well as to gain critical insights into the investment allocation process that underpins the selection, analysis and construction of a successful institutional investment portfolio.
Number of Opening(s): 2
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 16 – August 8, 2025): Full time/five days and 35-40 hours a week. Financial industry standard hours during the workweek.
Work Attire: Casual
Local Language: Japanese
Not required: Local language is not required, however, fluency in Japanese and/or Mandarin Chinese is a plus.
Additional desired intern qualifications:
- Working knowledge of basic Excel (pivot tables, formulas) is a requirement.
- Knowledge of VBA and R is an advantage but not a requirement.
- No prior Econ / Finance background is required, but we expect our interns to be knowledge-hungry and willing to put in the hours in order to get a better understanding of the industry.
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