Equity Market Strategist – Europe recruitment
Market Strategist as part of the idea generation business of Equities Structuring, Global Equities.
Equity Market Strategies within Equities Structuring is responsible for the idea generation, development and maintenance of delta-one (non single-stock) investment ideas on the Equities platform. Ideas can be drawn from UBS Securities Research, either with the Equity Market Strategist compliantly crossing the information barrier to work with the Research analyst directly on an unpublished report, or developing ideas based on existing Research looking at themes from own reading of UBS Research and other sources, client conversations, conversations with Product Management and Sector Research, or directly from reverse enquiries.
The candidate needs to have a very good understanding of the themes driving global equity markets currently and what needs to be done to turn these into commercial and attractive products across a broad range of client bases including (but not limited to) hedge funds, private wealth and institutional clients. The candidate will be responsible for sourcing the idea, structuring it, setting it up on internal and external market data systems, and marketing it internally.
The candidate will work closely with Sales and Structuring and reports to the Head of Platforms.
Requirements
-Demonstrable successful experience in:
- a research-driven global investment bank or buy-side organisation in comparable responsibility;
- creating and marketing trade ideas internally and externally to a broad range of clients;
- using market data systems, e.g. Bloomberg, FactSet to screen for ideas and make them available to investors;
- using coding platforms, e.g. R, MatLab, Excel VBA to systematise and share tools for creation and maintenance of product;
- Additional European languages, e.g. French, German;
- Strong written and oral presentation skills;
- Proven ability to work in a coordinated fashion within a global team.