Investment Associate Full-Time - Summer 2025
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The Role:

About Lord Abbett:

Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett is an independent firm with a singular focus on the management of money. Over the course of our history, weve earned a sterling reputation for our leadership, influence, and innovation in the asset management industry. Today, our independent perspective, our commitment to active management, and our intelligent product design continue to make us relevant to individual and institutional investors.

From the very beginning, weve recognized that our people are our greatest asset. As an investment-led, investor-focused firm, we value intellectual curiosity, teamwork, and collaboration across the organization.

Were looking for people with a keen interest in working for a trusted leader in the asset management industry, a desire to expand their knowledge, and a passion for delivering a client experience that exceeds expectations.

Now that you know our history, are you ready to be part of our future?

Job Overview:

As an Investment Associate, you will participate in a training program focused on skills-based development covering Portfolio Construction, Data and Analytics, Investment Research, Trading, and the impact of Macroeconomic factors on markets led by Lord Abbett investment professionals and industry experts. As part of their ongoing training, you will have the opportunity to engage with senior investment professionals, business leaders, and senior management. After initial onboarding, Investment Associates will join as a full-time member of investment teams within either Fixed Income, Tax-Free Fixed Income or Equities. Associates will also have the opportunity to become CFA charter holders. Lord Abbett has identified the following characteristics that we believe to be critical in becoming a successful investor, we would expect you to have and grow these skills overtime:

• Grit
• Intellectual Curiosity
• Mental Flexibility
• Decisive Risk-Taking
• Focus

Well trust you to::

• Create and maintain financial models, valuation analysis, and written reports on companies, industry trends, and investment recommendations
• support our experienced investment professionals in generating alpha for our clients through providing support for portfolio management decisions, portfolio construction understanding, undertaking research or navigating a complex and digital active trading environment
• Prepare reports, opinions, recommendations, and presentations for use in the formulation of investment recommendations
• Leverage digital tools to innovate, streamline and partner with digital and data teams to generate sustainable and unique investment insights
• Participate in formal and informal training designed to expand your knowledge as an investment professional
• Perform in-depth company research by sector or specific to an asset class
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the broader investment team

You'll need to have::

• Bachelors degree; an advanced degree is viewed as a plus
• Outstanding academic background and excellent attention to detail
• Passion for investing
• Superior analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative
• Resourcefulness, team-orientation, enthusiasm, and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Why Lord Abbett?:

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.

• Principles-Led - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
• Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
• Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.

We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments and scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaigns Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $100,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance.

Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicants relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

Important notice to Search Firms - Please Read CarefullyWithout prior written agreement, Lord Abbett does not accept unsolicited submissions from employment agencies, search firms, placement services, or any similar provider (Search Firms) for employment opportunities. All candidates submitted by Search Firms to any employee or partner at our company without a written Search Firm agreement in place will be deemed the sole property of our company. In such circumstances, no fee, commission, or other compensation will be paid to such Search Firm in the event a candidate is hired by our company. To the extent a Search Firm has a written agreement in place, all introductions are position specific and should be directed to HR or the hiring manager, so we kindly request no unsolicited phone calls or emails.