Public Equity Investment Intern

Summary

Join our 28-person public equity investment team this summer to develop your investing toolkit and explore actionable investment ideas. Throughout your 10-week experience, you will partner directly with portfolio managers and senior analysts to identify and evaluate public equity investment opportunities leveraging our fundamental, research-intensive approach.

Requirements

• Independence of thought: we strive to be unbiased and develop objective, data-centric theses to drive investment decisions
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities: has the intellectual toolkit to support investment theses with highly differentiated research
• Efficient communication: our research efforts are extensive, but our ideas are communicated clearly and simply
• Autonomous and self-starting: we are a team of high-performing, motivated investment professionals; we are proactive and direct our own work
• Intellectual honesty: we value the ability to see the truth, even amidst confusion and conflict. We strive to recognize the current, correct investment decision rather than simply continuing to advocate for prior recommendations
• Passion for research and investing: our team is engaged and excited to pursue differentiated research, supported by the firm’s significant resources

Responsibilities

• Performing primary, in-depth research on industry and company fundamentals by analyzing financial statements and real-time data, conducting channel checks and surveys, and carrying out other comprehensive due diligence activities
• Engaging with company management and investor relations teams, sell-side research analysts and buy-side peers
• Attending industry conferences and events
• Building and updating financial models
• Distilling a large volume of research down to a set of key drivers of industry, company, and stock price performance to form a view on a company and its value
• Contributing to Viking’s overall research effort by sharing information and insights with the investment team

Benefits

• 100% coverage of medical and dental premiums
• Paid lunches