Investment Officer III recruitment
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Independently analyze, evaluate, and recommend new investment grade, high yield and/or convertible corporate bond investments in assigned sectors, and monitor the existing fixed income portfolio
- Fundamental credit research analysis of both cash flow and asset coverage as well as comparative assessment of market value within sectors; identification of trends and changes in competitive positions within industries; development of analysis models; and the performance of sensitivity analyses to assess pro forma and projected financial performance; relative value corporate bond recommendations; monitoring of existing positions in various fixed income portfolios and their respective indices, using the BlackRock Solutions suite of tools
- Responsible for performing quantitative and qualitative analysis of risk and return for the portfolio, and present companies to CalPERS’ Internal Credit Committee
- Publish periodic company and industry overviews pertaining to the safety of current investments and future opportunities - making buy, sell or add recommendations
- Responsible for making investment decisions on sale or purchase of securities within their given sectors
Minimum Requirements and Experience:
- Equivalent to graduation from college preferably with major work in business administration, economics, finance, mathematics, or a closely related field.
- Five years of increasingly responsible investment analysis experience for a public agency or private financial institution, insurance company, pension fund, endowment fund, investment firm, real estate development and investment firm, or private corporation or entity having a major investment management program
Desirable Qualifications:
- MBA or possession of an advanced degree in finance or another applicable technical field
- Professional certification such as a CPA, CFA, MFE, ASA/FSA
- Strong analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Computer programming and data mining abilities
- MS Suite experience, particularly Excel experience
- Ability to work independently and under short time constraints
February 17, 2012
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