AddressMan Group
About Man Solutions
Man Solutions draws upon the diverse expertise and specialist knowledge within Man Group’s investment engines, to create and run innovative and tailored ‘cross-engine’ investment programmes. Its aim is to develop and deliver cross-content commingled or bespoke portfolio solutions for our clients, as we seek to address their individual performance, portfolio construction and risk management objectives.
Man Solutions works closely with our sales and relationship management teams to fully understand our clients’ needs and how they can best be met. It enables us to offer our investors more tailored investment programmes, illustrating our commitment to putting clients at the heart of everything we do.
Every Client Is Unique
We have been designing, implementing and working in partnership with our clients since 1997 to develop investment solutions that aim to address their specific hedge fund investment and risk management needs.
With our origins as a hedge fund consultant, we have always been, and continue to be, fully committed to offering and developing a broad array of support and services to our clients. We view our highly experienced teams as extensions of our clients’ teams.
We aim to provide full investment operational and infrastructure support to supplement our clients’ oversight, experience and operational capabilities in managing their alternative investments.
Flexible Approach
Our only business is helping clients invest in and maximise the benefits they receive from hedge fund investing. We work alongside our clients to develop and implement a hedge fund solution that addresses their specific requirements.
Over 70% of our assets are represented by customised solutions with partners who are broadly diversified by client type, requirement, sophistication and geographic location. Our experience, combined with the breadth and depth of our hedge fund platform and capabilities, enables us to construct hedge fund solutions that seek to conform to our clients’ fiduciary standards, while still accounting for their unique requirements.
The Team
Man Solutions (MSL) Portfolio Engineering is the team responsible for all quantitative engineering and analytics related to Man Group’s multi-strategy products and bespoke solutions. It is a critical investment function, reporting directly to the MSL CIO.
The team supports a diverse set of investment teams, both in terms of trading styles and asset class. Our multi-strategy products and solutions leverage the full breadth of alpha within Man Group, alongside external manager alpha. The ideal candidate will oversee all quant related research, analytics and Portfolio Engineering initiatives within MSL.
The development of multi-strategy products and solutions, alongside tactical alpha and hedging strategies, is a priority growth area for Man Group and the MSL Portfolio Engineering team plays a key role in supporting this growth.
Job Profile Summary:
Responsibilities:
- Actively research potential areas of improving alpha for investors through our asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk management techniques
- Work with MSL investment teams to develop new model portfolios across a broad range of asset classes and investment styles
- Design and implement performance and benchmarking analytics to ensure we can maximise performance for clients over the long term
- Interact daily with the portfolio implementation group on portfolio rebalancing and risk issues
- Collaborate with other quant units within Man Group to share ideas and identify opportunities to add value across investment teams
- Create insightful analysis and commentary to be able to understand and convey to clients/prospects the drivers of performance
- Capability to handle client relationships including sophisticated institutional investors and consultants
- Responsibility for all data management and governance related to MSL products and solutions
- Leadership of the MSL Portfolio Engineering quant team
- Collaborate with Technology to drive platform developments with MSL
Key Skills & Experience:
- Exceptional analytical skills; recognised by your peers as an expert in your domain
- 10+ years of quantitative portfolio analysis and research experience
- A graduate degree (Ph.D./MS) in a quantitative discipline or an MBA with a Finance specialization is preferred.
- Ability to implement and develop quantitative models and perform quantitative/statistical research in the areas of Portfolio construction, risk modelling and security selection
- Extensive experience programming in Python/R or other statistical computing packages
- Ability to work in a collaborative, team environment
- Possess effective written and verbal communication skills
- Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views in a collaborative manner
