Job Title: Internship Investment Program

Location: Philadelphia and Boston offices

Role Type: Full-time Internship

Period: June 2nd – August 8th, 2025 (10 weeks)

Closing Date: Friday 18th October – We reserve the right to close the application earlier depending on applicant pool volume.

About abrdn

At abrdn, we empower our clients to become better investors. With a global presence, we provide innovative investment solutions that drive positive outcomes. Our commitment to responsible investing helps us contribute to building a better world.

Why Choose Our Internship Program?

Embark on a unique, challenging, and rewarding journey with abrdn. Our summer internship offers you the chance to work within our Investment Function. Here, you’ll engage in real projects, collaborate with talented professionals, and develop skills that will enhance your career.

What You'll Do

We offer investment expertise across different key asset classes and markets so that our clients can capture investment potential wherever it arises. By combining market and economic insight with technology and diverse perspectives, we look for optimal ways to help investors navigate the future and reach their financial goals.  And by putting environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations at the heart of our process, we seek to find the most sustainable investment opportunities globally. The combination of our research, thematic thinking, ESG best practice and extensive on-the-ground analysis helps us find the most sustainable future-fit investment opportunities globally.

We look to place interns throughout our investment areas, including:

• Equities

• Fixed Income

• Alternatives

Throughout the program, you can access e-learning courses, a structured development plan, and networking opportunities with senior leaders and colleagues.

What We Look For

We are looking for undergraduates in their junior year of studies, from diverse academic backgrounds but ideally with an interest in Finance.

Ideal candidates will have excellent analytical skills, be client-focused, collaborative and be strategic thinkers with a futurist mindset.  Being able to demonstrate you have strong communication and organisation skills is also important.

Please note that you must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident or possess other unrestricted U.S. work authorization and will not require sponsorship for U.S. work authorization now or anytime in the future.

Our Graduate Program

Upon completing your internship, you’ll be considered for our 24-month rotational graduate program, starting in September 2026. This offers a supportive environment to gain skills, experience, and industry qualifications.

Our Inclusive Culture

We are committed to exploring the possibilities of working smarter. This means we’d like to hear from you, whatever way you like to work.

We have a long-term commitment to building inclusive workplaces; we value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or a reasonable adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist. You can find out more about our inclusive culture here.

abrdn is an affirmative action - equal opportunity employer.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical