Ekam Ghotra
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Quantitative Investments Analyst Intern @ Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Co.

Milwaukee, WI ~ Jun 2026 – Aug 2026

Systematic credit research and fixed income analytics in Public Investments.

Systematic Credit Research and Fixed Income Analytics

  • Built and paper-traded a multi-factor systematic credit strategy for the investment-grade corporate universe with the IG corporate portfolio managers, combining peer-relative spread, fundamental, and equity momentum signals.
  • Partnered with Quantitative Engineering leads to build a strategy evaluation framework, testing signals through historical backtests net of trading costs, Newey-West t-tests, and forward performance projections.
  • Re-engineered pre-trade analytics for the IG corporate bond desk, including Nelson-Siegel relative-value curves and a consolidated view of dealer quotes.
  • Built a centralized view of CLO performance for the high yield portfolio managers, using Frongello linking for multi-period attribution.
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Streamlit
  • dbt
  • SciPy
  • scikit-learn