American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines. We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs. Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs. Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
Role Summary
American Century is seeking to hire talented individuals to participate in its Investment Analyst Summer Associate program. In this 12-week program, qualified individuals will rotate through various strategies within American Century’s Kansas City-based Global Value Equity and Global Growth Equity teams, gaining access to leading portfolio management teams and providing actionable fundamental research support to those teams in an effort to drive superior client outcomes.
This position will be based out of our Kansas City office.
The deadline to apply for this role will be Friday, November 13, 2026.
How You Will Make an Impact
- Research and model common stocks, presently owned and potential new investments, recommending purchases and sales. This involves reading and analyzing company financial documents or third-party reports, interviewing company management, and gaining information from other sources
- Analyze industry groups or other investment themes as requested by portfolio managers
- Facilitate preparation of analytical data for weekly equity investment meetings
- Attend and participate in investment company presentations and weekly equity investment meetings
What You Bring to the Team (Required)
- MBA – 1st year (concentration in finance preferred but not required) or a similar combination of education and work experience
- Highly curious, motivated, intelligent and self-starting, with the ability to work independently and as a teammate, able to identify priorities, plan, coordinate, and follow-through on assignments
- Willing to internalize and implement American Century’s differentiated investment process
- Able to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written form with accuracy and attention to detail
- Creative, open-minded, logical, determined, and highly ethical
- Flexible and suited to covering multiple sectors
- Analytical and able to perform detailed and cogent research
- Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven
Additional Assets (Preferred)
- Experience covering stocks
- CFA
- IA
The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.
What We Offer- 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
- Formal mentorship program, live and online learning
Learn more about our benefits and perks.
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency.
Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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