Perspectives

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.

We are excited to celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. As part of our celebration, we asked three of our colleagues to share the advice they’d give to women early in their careers, the influence of strong female role models in their lives, and what International Women’s Day means to them.

Ewelina Stankiewicz, Senior Recruiting Manager for Warsaw, joined us to talk about building culture in a new office, recruiting on four continents during her career, and recharging with sports.

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.

Our London office has been busy giving back to the local community and participating in multiple charitable events, organized by our Community Matters team.

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.

Sri Chandrasekar, the Managing Partner of Point72 Ventures, head of Deep Tech investments, and Co-Managing Partner of Point72 Hyperscale, spoke to us about his many at the Firm, the growth of the Ventures business, and the importance of having a diverse team.

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 Academy launched a new season of its podcast, designed to help students get a better understanding of a career in finance. This season will introduce students to investment professionals at our Firm, discussing how they forged their career paths and made it to where they are today.

We welcomed around 30 college and high school students from the Prep for Prep program to our Hudson Yards office for an inaugural Career Day event.

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.

Miguel Vargas, Business Unit Manager for Market Intelligence, joined us to talk about his path to Point72, the team’s growth, and how he's helping the next generation of talent find a place in our industry.

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.

Dan Gwak, Managing Partner of Point72 Private Investments, joined us to talk about his role at the Firm, Point72 Hyperscale, and his plans for growing the Firm's private investing business.

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.

Adam Symmons, Head of Technology Data Engineering, spoke to us about how creating centralized data platforms can help us scale and execute more efficiently, how he went from being a trader to data engineering, and why talent is key to success.

Point72 Chief Economist Dean Maki joined CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” to talk about recent macro news including retail inventory, Fed rate hikes, inflation and consumer spending.

Business Insider featured Chris Darringer, head of our Market Intelligence team’s data platform, and Mark Brubaker, our chief technology officer, on their list of Wall Street tech leaders leading the industry’s transition to cloud technology.

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.

Jaimi Goodfriend, Head of Investment Professional Development at Point72, shares what makes a resume, questionnaire and case study stand out in our process.

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.

Mo Grimeh, Head of Point72’s Global Macro Business, joined us for an interview to talk about how he got to Point72, his experience so far, and his vision for the Macro business.

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.

In June 2020, we opened our 12th global office, in Warsaw, Poland, during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rafael Lopez-Espinosa, our Head of Poland, wrote about his experience bringing Point72’s values and culture to a new part of the world.

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.

Last month, Denis Dancanet joined our Firm as the new President of Cubist, our systematic investing business. Now that he's settled in, we took the opportunity to ask him about his path to Point72, and what's next for quant investing.

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.