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Thanks for responding. My main question is how exactly they'll differ from portfolio and delta 1 trading desks? I've seen a bunch of people who seem to have a hybrid between these roles, so they'll do all the composition predictions, corporate action research, weight predictions and position crowding analysis, but then they'll actually also trade ETFs, index futures, index swaps as well. Is this common?

Also, is my understanding that the focus of the role is mainly composition prediction, rebalance simulation and strategy, corporate action recommendations, weight predictions and analysis of how hedge funds and liquidity providers are pre-positioned ahead of rebalance? Is there any aspect I'm missing? Do they actually help devise rebalance trading strategies (as in for the ETF/IMF PM that buys their research). Do they construct custom indices?

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