iShares Investment Markets Strategist – Vice President recruitment
BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.
iShares Business Unit Overview: iShares is the brand name for one of the world's largest ranges of exchange traded funds (ETFs), which is marketed and managed by BlackRock. iShares funds are available to institutional investors and private investors. iShares funds combine the advantages of stocks with the benefits of index funds: iShares can be bought and sold like any other shares listed on a stock exchange and provide instant exposure to an entire index through a single security. They therefore combine the flexibility and tradeability of a share with the diversification of a fund.iShares funds are a flexible mechanism for achieving cost-effective market exposure at the desired level and at the moment it’s required. Insert paragraph on the relevant Business Unit and/or department
Job Purpose/Background: The iShares EMEA Investment Strategy Insight (ISI) team delivers market-leading content and solutions for iShares clients. The team provides investors with insights into the ETP market, implementation strategies for iShares and BlackRock investment views and in-depth product analysis and solutions. The strategist will work within the ISI team to produce market-driven and technical ETP thought pieces and market them to salespeople and clients. The person will build relationships within iShares and BlackRock to leverage BlackRock views into iShares implementation content.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce market-leading ETP thought pieces, connecting market events to the iShares’ product range
- Create content with a technical and markets driven focus for sophisticated clients – across asset classes
- Work closely with the iShares global investment strategy team to deliver ETP content with a European investor focus
- Build relationships across BlackRock to leverage broader BlackRock views into iShares ETF implementation.
- Represent ISI and iShares in client meetings and presentations across the region.
Development Value:
- Opportunity to help drive a strategic initiative for BlackRock and iShares
- Work directly with key clients of the firm, with iShares, BlackRock Retail and Institutional
- Work closely with the leading investment strategists in BlackRock
Knowledge/Experience:
- Established buy- or sell-side background in fixed income or cross-asset research/strategy, or investments
- Market experience, preferably cross-asset
- Experience in creating implementation ideas for product areas, leveraging macro and economic research
- Delta-one product knowledge
- Fixed income product knowledge
- Client experience including handling client requests and devising solutions to investment problems
- Ability to build relationships both within and outside a firm
Competencies:
- Market knowledge, preferably cross asset
- Understanding of the macro environment
- Interpersonal skills – team player
- Breadth of product understanding across fixed income and equity
- Highly analytical
- Excel and programming expertise
- Ability to write / deliver content
- Good communicator
- Attention to detail
Application closing date is 15th May 2012
Salary- Competitive