Asia Market Strategist recruitment
The Firm:
JPMorgan Funds, part of JPMorgan Asset Management, is a large and fastest-growing global mutual fund managers. At JPMorgan Funds, we provide expertise across an exceptionally broad range of asset classes, from traditional cash management, equity and fixed income investments to real estate and other alternative asset classes. Benefiting from a long and well-established heritage, JPMorgan Asset Management conducts research and serves clients worldwide, including brokers and financial intermediaries, employee benefit plans, endowment and foundations, insurance companies and sovereign governments.
The Team:
The Global Market Insights Strategy Team (GMIST) runs an industry-leading program providing financial advisors and their clients, as well as institutional investors, with the tools and perspective they need to make more informed investment decisions. The program has two main objectives: 1) to position JPMorgan Funds as the preeminent provider of market and economic insight to financial advisors and their clients, and 2) to help our sales force in building lasting client relationships, gaining access to prospective clients and in creating distinct sales opportunities.
The Role:
The Global Market Strategist, based in Hong Kong, will report to the Chief Global Strategist, and will assist in formulating and disseminating JPMorgan Funds Management's view on the markets, the economy and investing to a broad audience including financial advisors and their clients. Importantly, this role will entail moderate to heavy travel across the Asia, as we often present our view to clients at industry conferences, JPMorgan-sponsored events and travel with mutual fund Client Advisors to meet with top clients. We are seeking a top-notch presenter.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the production of weekly, monthly and quarterly client materials, including the Asia Guide to the Markets and Quarterly Perspectives along with associated articles, presentations, recordings and web-casts.
- Generate content and ideas for JPMorgan fund's web site.
- Present at meetings, conduct conference calls and run web-casts for financial advisors and their clients on the economic and market outlook
Help train our JPMorgan fund's sales force on economic and market issues and how to use the Market Insights program in addressing these issues and tying them to investment solutions
Skills
- Advanced degree in Finance or Economics and/or CFA.
- Fluent in English and Mandarin
- Superb communications skills in both writing and presenting. Ability to communicate ideas with passion, clarity (simplify the complex/use of stories and analogies) and humor.
- Ability to generate insightful and relevant investment ideas backed by rigorous research.
- Familiarity with financial markets, market terminology, capital markets history and economic indicators, along with equity, fixed income, international, emerging markets, currency and alternative asset classes.
- Willingness to travel 50% of the time (mostly continental Asia)
- Familiarity with software such as Bloomberg, FactSet, Reuters, etc. is preferable.
- Experience in retail, broker/dealer, and mutual fund industry preferable.
- Writing samples, research examples or other materials are welcomed in the consideration process.