Perspectives

Nikkei, one of Japan’s leading business publications, recently featured the Point72 Academy, highlighting how our investment analyst training program has become a premier pathway for university graduates to successfully enter the highly competitive investment industry. In an interview with Jaimi Goodfriend, Head of Investment Professional Development and Director…

Sonia Yu, Head of Investment Professional Development for International and Point72 LaunchPoint for Asia, joined us to talk about her views on Point72’s talent pipeline in Asia Pacific (APAC), what differentiates our firm in the region, and her career journey from investment professional to senior leader and mentor.

We recently hosted our first Point72 Global Technology Hackathon across five of our global offices—London, New York, Singapore, Stamford, and Warsaw.

Point72 has launched a Future of Finance Accelerator series in APAC, a program designed to expose undergraduate students from all backgrounds to the possibility of a career in investing. Applications are open now!

At Cubist Systematic Strategies, we understand the excitement and challenges that come with moving from the academic world to a professional setting. After years of studying and working with theories, it's time to put your knowledge into practice and strive for meaningful results.

The report called out the role Gina plays in supervising and ensuring consistency across Point72’s global compliance programs, while Sonia was recognized for her work building and developing investment analysts’ professional skills through targeted development and career programs.

Will Tovey, Head of UK, sat down with us to discuss the growth and evolution of the London office, and his journey to Point72.

Point72 Chief Economist Dean Maki was recently awarded the National Association for Business Economics Lynn Reaser Economic Forecasting Award.

Ever wonder what it’s like to be in the Point72 Academy? Check out Academy Associate Natalia Bondanza’s “Day in the Life” feature in eFinancialCareers to get a glimpse into our 10-month investment analyst training program.

Senior leaders at the firm share their summer reading recommendations.

Sixteen students from Japan recently joined us for our one-week, in-person immersion program, which is designed to provide a glimpse into the life of a Point72 Academy associate and what it takes to be a buy-side investment professional.

This summer, we had students working in Point72 offices around the world. We asked interns in London, Hong Kong, and Warsaw, to tell us about their roles this summer and their experience in our global offices, including their biggest challenges and their favorite thing about the city they are working in.

In the final weeks of our summer internship, we asked four of our interns to share their biggest takeaways, the skills they developed, and the projects they were most proud of.

We asked four of our summer interns to share their early experiences with the firm, the skills they hope to gain from their internship, and more.

Point72 employees from across the globe took part in a variety of volunteer opportunities in their local communities this spring. Read within to learn more about our recent events and partnering organizations.

With our summer internship program underway, we asked former Point72 Academy interns and our Recruiting team to share their advice on how to set yourself up for success this summer.

Nearly 50 students across the U.S. and Canada competed against one another to build a workable application or model using New York City transit data.

180 students are working across businesses and departments throughout our firm.

Chief Economist Dean Maki finished first out of 43 participants.

Eight students spent a week in our London office learning from Academy staff and analyst coaches about our business, stock picking, and what it's like to have a career in investing.

As part of our involvement, we helped judge the competition and hosted an exclusive teach-in and a series of panel discussions led by our Academy team.

The rankings found that students and early-career professionals were attracted to Point72’s job opportunities, meaningful work, and strong employee support.

Ahead of our largest Academy internship class joining this summer, Point72 Academy Director Jaimi Goodfriend spoke to P&I about the growth of the program and what we look for in talent.

Steve shared his thoughts on the parallels between running a professional baseball team and a hedge fund, the business of baseball and sports, his outlook for the markets, the current rally around the AI boom, and more.

Over 65 employees competed in a 24-hour coding marathon to prototype potential GenAI solutions to solve real business challenges.

Sophia Drossos joined Bloomberg Surveillance to discuss the latest activity across global central banks and implications for markets moving forward.

Point72 had four representatives on the judging panel for the annual long/short stock pitch competition for undergraduate students.

Members of our Women in Finance Network shared reading recommendations to celebrate Women's History Month.

Point72 has worked with Data Skills for All since 2019 to provide comprehensive training, resources, and opportunities to professionals looking to pursue a career in data science.

Jerome Leslie, a Technical Expert on the End User Computing Technology team in New York, sat down with us to talk about his day-to-day at the firm, why building relationships internally is so important, and his love of travel.

Our eight-week summer internship runs from June through August in our New York, Chicago, San Francisco, West Palm Beach, Miami, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore offices. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and we encourage you to apply as soon as you are ready.

Point72 Co-CIO Harry Schwefel sat down with us to discuss his role overseeing our Long/Short Equity business, Point72’s culture and commitment to career development, and his thoughts on how to achieve success in this industry.

Chief Economist Dean Maki joined CNBC The Exchange to discuss the December jobs report and what it means for the U.S. economy moving forward.

Check out what our Point72 Academy and Investment Professional Development teams are reading and listening to this holiday season.

Mo Grimeh joined ICE Fixed Income in Focus to discuss his role as Head of Global Macro, Point72’s culture of collaboration, and his macroeconomic outlook for 2024.

The season's first episode features a conversation between an Academy Coach and three Associates on how to prepare for Academy interviews, what surprised them about the full-time program and the hedge fund industry in general, and advice for interested students.

Members of our Technology team in Warsaw shared their insights on overcoming workplace challenges, how to keep up with tech trends, and the importance of diversity in the field.

Attendees participated in a full day of panels and breakout sessions capped off by a mixology class and a group dinner.

The donations aim to provide students with early exposure to what it’s like to run a L/S investment strategy and educate them on a career in investing and the industry as a whole.

Our Point72 Academy team met with students representing over 30 top universities.

Earlier this year, we completed our annual Employee Engagement Survey, an anonymous, firmwide check-in on engagement and satisfaction among our people. The results from our Long/Short business were strong and highlighted some of the reasons why our investment professionals enjoy building their careers and businesses at Point72.

Point72 Co-CIO Harry Schwefel and Head of Point72 LaunchPoint Jon Weiner spoke with Business Insider about the program's customized approach and why talent development is a priority for the firm.

Marcin Bazydło, a Software Engineer on our Data Platform team, led a hands-on session on best practices for coding in Python where he demonstrated coding examples in front of the students.

Ariel and Alyssa were recognized for their contributions to the growth of our firm and commitment to fostering a culture of learning and development.

Point72 Macro PMs James Pullen and Zorin Finkelsen joined the judging panel.

Eleven students joined us in our Tokyo office for the week-long event to learn about our investing business in Japan, experience what it's like to work on the buy-side, and hear from investment professionals and senior leaders at our firm.

We caught up with two of our most tenured London employees, Head of Trading for Europe Niall Hession and Jade Harber, Head of Compliance for Europe, to discuss its growth and what makes the London office so special.

During the two-day event, leaders on our Point72 Academy and Investment Professional Development teams led a teach-in session on stock picking and shared career advice with students during panel discussions.

Bloomberg highlighted the recent growth in our Singapore office and our increasing footprint across APAC.

The annual event brought together 200 colleagues for a day of collaboration, idea generation, and cohesion among the team.

The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Race returned after a three-year hiatus and Point72 had 25 paddlers participate in the competition.

Senior leaders at the firm share their summer reading recommendations.

We recently hosted a fireside chat with Ruth Jurgensen, CEO of educational nonprofit Prep for Prep, at our New York office.

Point72 Ventures Managing Partner Sri Chandrasekar spoke with Fortune’s Term Sheet about VCs growing interest in the defense tech field.

Over 170 interns started their summer internships at our offices worldwide.

We hosted the Scholars of Finance (SoF) Northeast Symposium in support of the organization’s mission to inspire character and integrity in the next generation of finance leaders.

We welcomed our Asia-based portfolio managers and members of our firm’s leadership to Kyoto, Japan for an offsite highlighting the importance of innovation and adaptability to building an enduring business.

We sat down with four colleagues from our AAPI community and asked them to share what their heritage means to them and how they honor their culture through customs and traditions during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Around 50 SMU students heard Rob discuss his career, Point72, the importance of finding a place to work that invests in you, and the trait that he sees in the best investors.

Nearly 40 students presented their findings to a panel of Cubist judges and covered a range of topics using large publicly-available datasets from NYC’s Open Data project.

Point72 has renewed its partnership with Correlation One's Data Science for All (DS4A) program to help people from underrepresented backgrounds get jobs in data science, data analytics and data engineering.

On a recent trip to Japan, our founder and CEO Steve Cohen spoke to Nikkei about Point72’s growth plans in Tokyo.

Institutional Investor highlighted the Point72 Academy as the most high-profile analyst training program in the hedge fund industry and spoke to Academy Director Jaimi Goodfriend about talent development on the buy-side.

Cubist Systematic Strategies has launched a Quant Academy program to introduce exceptional candidates to systematic trading at Point72, featuring a rotational program on teams within Cubist.

We are proud to have sponsored the inaugural stock pitch challenge hosted by Nanyang Capital—the first student-run equity research club at Nanyang Technological University.

This month, a group of our colleagues from London and Warsaw represented Point72 at the annual 100 Women in Finance gala to support their mission to empower women in the industry at every stage of their career.

Applications are open! Our 8-week summer internship runs from June through August 2024 in our New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore offices. 

Three of our Asia offices—Tokyo,  Singapore, and Hong Kong—took part in volunteer events organized by our Community Matters ambassadors over the winter. Our colleagues in Tokyo teamed up on a Sunday to help the Arakawa Clean-aid Forum. Together they collected 14 45-liter bags of waste, one bag of non-combustible waste,…

We caught up with Portfolio Manager James Lau and Candice Yip, Human Resources Senior Business Partner, who have both been in our Hong Kong office for more than a decade and have witnessed its growth firsthand. They told us about what makes it special to work here.

We caught up with Kapil Mathur, Cubist's first Chief Scientist, to talk about stepping away from running a PM team, transitioning into his current role, and the Quant Academy program.

Joy Yang, Head of Asian Economic Research, joined a panel on the current macroeconomic environment and how emerging and frontier markets will evolve.

Point72's Head of Finance, Laura O'Connor, was named one of the “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds 2022” by the Hedge Fund Journal. Laura was recognized by the publication for her work over the past decade in our Finance group, where she is responsible for overseeing our core Finance functions, including Fund & Management Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Payroll, and Shared Services.

Point72 celebrated the expansion of our Long/Short Equity business to our Paris office at a cocktail party hosted by Will Tovey, Head of UK, and Rafa Lopez Espinosa, Chief Operating Officer, International and Head of Warsaw and Paris, and at a lunch with members of the office.

The Point72 Finance team hosted the annual Finance Summer Olympics at our Connecticut office earlier this month for the first time since before the pandemic.

Point72 launched a new program, the Next Generation Data School, to teach data and automation skills to employees in groups across the firm, giving them more technical tools to help better utilize our data and improve our systems and processes, while also supporting their career development.

Point72 senior leaders shared books that they recommend—from science fiction novels describing a post-scarcity society, explorations of how algorithms and timing can be used to optimize our lives, to a tale of one of the most extreme explorers of the modern age.

What does the day-to-day of being a Point72 intern actually look like? Business Insider spoke to Adam Brooks, academy development manager at Point72, about the internship program, and to two Point72 portfolio managers – Jonathan Harooni and Griffin Newman – to learn more about what makes interns successful.

Point72 has expanded its economics team with the addition of Sophia Drossos as Economist and Strategist based in New York, and Soeren Radde as Head of European Economic Research, based in London.

This summer, we welcomed our largest summer intern class yet and were happy to host the experience in person for the first time since 2019!

Cubist President Denis Dancanet was profiled in Business Insider about his life and career path, including defecting from communist Romania during a chess tournament, ditching academia for Wall Street and helping launch two startups.

The Point72 Running Group recently launched and is now organizing group runs as a new way to connect with colleagues across the firm, for runners at all levels of experience. The group is starting organizing runs out of our New York offices and is hoping to expand to other office locations.

Interested in a job at Cubist? Check out our interview tips to learn how to prepare for and what to expect from an interview with us. These are our best practices for a successful interview—to help us ensure we’re the right fit and to find the best role for you.

At Point72 Academy, we teach you how to think about financial markets, but we leave it up to you to reach your own conclusions. To help get you started, here is a list of some of our favorite reads for expanding your knowledge on everything from historical events in finance, to tips from some of the most successful traders, to explainers on different styles of investing.

Point72’s Future of Finance Diversity Accelerator–a two-week program for college sophomores from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds who want to learn more about a career in investing–was featured in Business Insider.

Members of the Singapore office came together for their first in-person volunteer event in two years, to help sort, take inventory, and pack food donations at the Food Bank Singapore warehouse.

Business Insider highlighted Point72’s focus on recruiting candidates from diverse professional backgrounds—including lawyers, White House personnel, military vets, and most recently candidates with advanced healthcare degrees—to join the Point72 Academy, where they can learn how to be analysts at our firm.

Zhendi Su joined Cubist as a portfolio manager in the San Francisco area in 2019 to launch the Firm's first systematic credit strategy. She took the time to tell us about her career and the opportunity for systematic credit.

Bloomberg covered Steve Cohen’s comments at the SALT conference on how he went from cryptocurrency skeptic to a proponent of the industry's potential.

Jaimi Goodfriend, Director of the Point72 Academy, took us through the key questions she encourages prospective interns to ask before joining a program.

Jaimi Goodfriend, director of the Point72 Academy, spoke with Business Insider about the best way to get accepted to the Point72 Academy, from how to get your resume noticed to how to stand out in the interview process.

We caught up with Norica Ng, Singapore Office Manager, to chat about her experience supporting our Firm in APAC and how her role and our Firm has grown in the region.

Jaimi Goodfriend, Head of Investment Professional Development and the Point72 Academy, recently sat down with Patrick Curtis from WallStreetOasis to discuss her road to the buyside, Point72 Academy's track record in developing thoughtful investors, and how she views talent.

Alyssa Friedman, the Head of Talent for Cubist and Discretionary Macro, talked to us about how her role at the Firm has evolved over more than a decade, the culture in our quantitative business, and her love for adventure travel.

Joy Yang, Head of Asian Economic Research, spoke with The Hedge Fund Journal about her role at the firm, the region’s monetary policy response to Covid, and how she supports women in the field.

Business Insider profiled our focus on career development at every level, from the Point72 Academy—where recent graduates learn how to become analysts—to coaching for midlevel analysts, to our program that prepares senior analysts to become portfolio managers.

Sören Radde, Head of European Economic Research, spoke with The Wall Street Journal on the convergence between the U.S. and eurozone economy.

Sören Radde, Head of European Economic Research, spoke with Bloomberg about his expectations for the June ECB meeting and economic outlook moving forward.

Sören Radde, Head of European Economic Research, spoke with The Wall Street Journal on his expectations for the eurozone economy.

Chief Economist Dean Maki spoke with the Financial Times about the March employment report and its impact on the Fed’s policy path moving forward.

Sophia Drossos, Economist and Strategist, spoke to The Wall Street Journal on her outlook for the U.S. economy and its impact on markets moving forward.

Joy Yang, Head of Asian Economic Research, shared her thoughts with Asian Investor on the Chinese economy in 2024 and sectors to keep an eye on.

Dean Maki, Point72 Chief Economist, spoke with Bloomberg about the jump in U.S. Treasury yields and its impact on the economy and the Fed’s upcoming policy meetings.

Sophia Drossos, Economist and Strategist, spoke with the Financial Times about the September FOMC meeting and outlook for the Fed moving forward.

Dean Maki, Point72 Chief Economist, joined CNBC to share his outlook for the U.S. economy and the Fed’s policy path moving forward.

Sophia Drossos, Economist and Strategist, spoke with The Wall Street Journal about the rise in Treasury yields and its impact on markets and the economy.