Equity Research Associate

 

Johnson Asset Management Equity Research Associates build their buy-side careers on the equity research team of Johnson Investment Counsel, one of the largest independent investment firms in the country, with more than $23 billion in assets under management.  The Research Associate role is a career-track position built on an apprenticeship model: each Associate is assigned to senior equity analysts and their sector coverage, learning fundamental analysis, valuation, and portfolio management directly from the people who practice it every day.  Associates contribute on day one.  You'll sit in on strategy meetings and recommendation debates, take on live research for the companies we cover, and follow a clear development path toward becoming a research analyst.  If you want to learn investing by doing it alongside experienced analysts at a firm where employees are owners and the client comes first, we invite you to explore building your career at Johnson.

 

 

Every Associate climbs the Associate Development Ladder, our framework for building the skills needed to succeed as an equity research analyst.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johnson Investment Counsel is an employee-owned investment firm founded in 1965 and headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.  The firm manages more than $23 billion for individuals, families, and institutions across all 50 states and has been named a Top Workplace in Greater Cincinnati for 13 consecutive years and has been ranked among Barron's Top 100 RIA Firms and Forbes' America's Top RIA Firms (2025).  Founded by Tim Johnson, a university finance professor who built the firm to put investment theory into practice, the firm operates as a fiduciary, putting clients' interests first.

 

The firm's equity research team supports Johnson Private Client Group and Johnson Asset Management, the firm's institutional division.  Our large-cap and SMID-cap equity strategies are run with a quality-first, bottom-up philosophy designed to protect in down markets and outperform over a full market cycle.

 

Supervisory responsibility: N/A

 

Travel required: N/A

 

Work environment: Temperature controlled, office environment

 

Physical demands: Must be able to stand or sit at computer for 8+ hours per day.  May require extensive typing at times.

 

Additional eligibility requirements: N/A

 

Work authorization/security clearance requirements: United States Citizen or lawful permanent resident

 

EEO statement: As an equal opportunity employer, Johnson Investment Counsel, Inc. does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran/ military status, or any other protected status as required by law.

 

Other duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.