Internships and new graduates
Please see below for further information about our internship
program and the application process.
We accept two or three interns each year for a six-eight
week summer internship program for university students
considering a career in currency management.
Internships tend to be focused in our Research Department, with
students favouring either a quantitative or fundamental internship
based on their studies and interests. Additionally we offer an
internship in our Client Team and in the past we have also had
places with our Compliance and Risk Team.
Our internship program provides general training about currency
management and the opportunity to focus on one or two dedicated
projects within your internship. During your time at Record you
will become a valuable member of the department in which you are
working. You will have a personal mentor who will assist you with
the projects that you work on. These projects will be
intellectually challenging and you will have responsibility for
projects that will contribute to ongoing work within your
department. At the end of your internship you will have the
opportunity to present your findings to our Executive
Committee.
Applications
The closing date for applications has now passed for our 2012
internship scheme and we are no longer accepting applciations.
Testimonials
Diana Ples on her internship at Record in 2009:
"The Record internship scheme is unique because it offers the
opportunity to learn from the most senior people in the business on
a daily basis. The work was engaging and the atmosphere in the
company is friendly"

Sebastian Farquhar on his internship at Record in
2010: "I interned at Record during the summer of my second
year as a Physics and Philosophy student at Oxford. I applied in
the wake of the round of presentations Record holds at Balliol
every year. I prepared for the interview by researching the
company, working out what it did and how it did it. The company
website is very useful for that, and talking to previous interns
helped too. The interviews were lighthearted and enjoyable; we
talked about the financial crisis, about my own experiences, and
about automated trading strategies.
I was placed in Quantitative Research and my day to day tasks at
the company were relatively varied. I worked on several projects
during my internship. One of them was to produce a statistical
analysis of historical currency prices to evaluate the extent to
which they followed a random walk and discover the ways in which
they did not. This meant interpreting the data to put together a
presentation which I gave to the Executive committee. It attempted
to condense the hundreds of results I got into an overarching
message and an indication of how it might shape the trading
algorithms the company will use in the future
The team is very friendly and supportive, and is always ready to
have a chat about things both currency and non-currency related!
One unique thing about Record is that they don't forget about you
just because you aren't in their office anymore. Many of the
interns keep working for Record on a consulting basis at
University, and if you work hard, they work hard to bring you
back"