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Form of work
Salary
Responsibilities:
- Lead the research of investment strategies across liquid Hedge Fund and alternative managers
- Make investment recommendations to 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)
- 1-5 years’ experience of researching portfolio managers, preferably for the alternatives asset class
- Experience researching Hedge Funds
- 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
