Sr. Alternative Investments Management Internship (Summer 2025)

Zurich Alternative Asset Management, LLC (“ZAAM”) is currently looking for a Senior Investments Management Intern to join the team in the Summer of 2025, of approximately 30 investment professionals, based out of New York, NY. 

 

ZAAM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group. ZAAM was established in 2006 to manage hedge funds, private equity, and real estate investments solely for Zurich affiliates worldwide. ZAAM currently manages approximately USD 6 billion of assets. 

 

ZAAM is seeking at least one intern to begin in summer 2025 for approximately three months. (With the potential to extend the internship during the school year and/or the following summer, subject to business needs.) 

 

The Investment Management Intern will contribute to the ongoing work of the hedge fund, private equity, and real estate, teams. 

 

As an intern, you will work directly with each member of the ZAAM team. The internship will have exposure to all three asset classes in ZAAM (PE, HF, RE) but will be assigned to focus on 1, possibly 2 asset classes with specific project work and support for that group.

 

You will learn:

• High-level functional roles related to Asset Management processes and procedure
• Alternative Asset systems, such as Yardi, Allocator, Burgiss, Dynamo, and Various Data Analysis tools
• Sharpen skills in Excel
• Effective communication (written and verbal)
• Market and industry research
• Analytical work

 

Other Development Opportunities:

• Final presentation to the entire ZAAM group via a summer research project
• Exposure to Senior business partners throughout the organization
• Career Growth

 

 Basic Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in an advanced degrees program (MBA, MS, or Ph.D.) or will be enrolled by the fall of 2025
  AND
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited educational institution
• Be legally eligible to work in the U.S. indefinitely   

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing an advanced degree in any Corporate Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant STEM areas
• Taken coursework in finance, accounting, statistics, and/or investments
• Taken coursework in programming (e.g., Python, R), data visualization (e.g., Tableau, Qlik, Power BI), and analytics tools

 

Preferred Skills:

• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills; experience summarizing and presenting information in a way that provides clarity and interest
• Possess Quantitative/programming background
• Demonstrate