Vanguard

Structured Products Trader

Vanguard  •  Malvern, AR (Hybrid)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join Vanguard’s Structured Products team, a well-established platform within active fixed income with a growing investment footprint. This role offers the ability to contribute directly to portfolio performance through trading, idea generation, and portfolio positioning across CLOs and broader structured credits (ABS/CMBS). The ideal candidate combines strong market knowledge with structured product expertise and the ability to translate analytics into actionable investment decisions.

Responsibilities:

  • Execute trades across CLOs and structured credit in primary and secondary markets, with a focus on best execution

  • Generate trade ideas and identify relative value opportunities across structures, managers, and vintages

  • Contribute to portfolio construction and positioning

  • Analyze structures and cash flows to evaluate risk and return across investments

  • Partner with research on collateral, structure, and market dynamics

  • Source investment opportunities and liquidity through dealer and issuer relationships

  • Provide market insights and actionable trade recommendations to the broader team

Qualifications:

  • 5 years of relevant experience, with a strong focus on CLOs and/or structured credit trading or investing

  • Demonstrated ability to generate ideas and contribute to performance through trading and positioning

  • Strong understanding of CLO structures and broader structured credit markets (ABS/CMBS)

  • Cash flow modeling (Intex or similar) and analytical skillset

  • Established dealer and issuer relationships preferred

  • Programming/data skills a plus

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

  • Direct buy-side experience (nice to have), CFA preferred

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

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About Vanguard

Join us as we celebrate 50 years of empowering our 50 million investor-owners.* Since our founding in 1975, we’ve been on a mission to help investors achieve their goals.

With no outside shareholders to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with our clients’ needs in mind. Whether you’re investing for your first house, college for your kids, or a comfortable retirement, you can be confident we’re on your side.

We are a community that thinks—and feels—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Let’s celebrate 50 years together.

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*As of January 2025

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Valley Forge, PA
Year Founded
1975
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