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  About Bridgewater   Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique return streams, insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.   Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.   Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.   Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website  here .   Our Culture   Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what’s true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it’s only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a  Philosophy Statement  which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on  Meritocracy.  Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.   Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website  here .   About Your Role   Bridgewater’s mission has always been to understand how the world works and translate that understanding into the best possible portfolios for our clients. The Client Investment Research Analyst role sits at the center of that translation. It is a role unlike others in asset management: you take Bridgewater’s view of the cause-and-effect linkages in economies and markets and put it to work advising the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors.    You will work on the investment problems facing Bridgewater’s institutional clients: sovereign wealth funds, large public pensions, endowments, and other major allocators. The work spans the full range of what these institutions need from a macro investment partner, from synthesizing what’s going on in the world, to considering how to best manage a portfolio from the perspective of each investors’ unique goals and constraints, both strategically and tactically. You will do this alongside Bridgewater’s Strategists, a small group of senior investors appointed by our co-CIOs to lead our work with allocators; as you develop, you will take on more of the investment content those engagements carry.   What the role builds.  Over time, you develop what we call proxy CIO judgment: the ability to stand in an institutional investor’s shoes, understand their full set of constrain