Job Description

Job Title: Investment Internship Programme

Location: Edinburgh

Role Type: Full-time Internship

Period: June - August 2025 (10 weeks)

Closing date: Friday 18th October (We reserve the right to close earlier due to volume of applications)

Explore Endless Opportunities with abrdn's Investment Internship Programme!

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 Programme?

Embark on a unique, challenging, and rewarding journey with abrdn. Our summer internship offers you the chance to work within our Investment business. 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 all key asset classes, regions 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. By ensuring the assets we invest in are ready for and resilient to a world in transition, we act as guardians of our clients’ assets.  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.

Our broad and deep investment capabilities allow us to offer intern roles across a variety of different areas including:

• Equities
• Fixed Income
• Multi Asset Solutions
• Quantitative Investments
• Private Equity
• Global Client Solutions
• Real Asset

We therefore need multi-talented individuals – future researchers, fund managers, coders, business managers, product specialists, project managers and analysts who have a desire to learn, work hard and make a difference in a collaborative way.

What We Look For

We are looking for students in their penultimate year from diverse academic backgrounds.  Ideal candidates will have excellent analytical skills, be client-focused, collaborative and be strategic thinkers with a futurist mindset.  Being able to demonstrate inclusive and empowering leadership is also important.

Our Graduate Programme

Upon completing your internship, you’ll be considered for our 24-month rotational graduate programme, starting in September 2026. This offers a supportive environment to gain skills, experience, and industry qualifications like the CFA qualification.  Our graduate programme focuses on developing our talent to give the best possible start to their career and support aspirations to be the future leaders of abrdn. Our development curriculum focuses on 3 key learning mindsets- Client, Leadership & Strategic. Through engaging content, group coaching and learning experiences these mindsets will develop your capability and equip you with the skills and knowledge to set you up for success in your career.  

Our Commitment to Inclusion

abrdn is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. As a Disability Confident Committed Level One employer, we welcome applications from all backgrounds and provide support throughout the recruitment process.

Contact us at [email protected] for any accommodations needed.

Our Benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. You will enjoy competitive rewards, including 40 days of annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, private healthcare, and flexible benefits such as gym discounts and more. You can read more about our benefits here.

Apply Today

Join us in building a future where everyone can thrive.

For more information visit our careers site: https://www.abrdn.com/en-gb/corporate/careers

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 provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.