Alternatives Research Analyst, Asset Manager, London

Responsibilities:

• Lead the research process for alternatives strategy/fund managers making recommendations from the research to the multi-asset portfolio managers
• Create robust research and manager selection framework
• Thoroughly understand the portfolios of the multi-asset team with awareness of and delivery against their potential research requirements
• Engagement with maintaining and updating model portfolios
• Contribute to tactical asset allocation with insights from your research and provide recommendations and notes to support the portfolio managers
• Ensure that sustainability is integrated into the research analysis
• Coach and lead junior analysts in the team
• Continually help to develop and improve automation and contribute to process improvements
• Contribute the development of the research team’s output and aim to continually improve the quality by engaging with non-standard research work as appropriate

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree (min 2.1)
• Additional qualifications (Masters, CFA or CAIA preferred)
• Experience researching portfolio managers, preferably for the alternatives asset class
• A strong understanding of quantitative finance and financial economics as they apply to portfolio construction
• Exceptional qualitative analytical skills and numerical skills as they apply to market analyses
• Demonstrated experience with process-driven research approach
• Proven contribution to positive client outcomes