Regional Economist recruitment
Responsibilities:
• Developing a clear macro-economic framework for analysis of countries based on various aspects such as monetary policy, business cycles, liquidity and risk aversion and policy frameworks.
• Analysis of all macro-economic data and events in all countries in the region, with a view to formulate an economic opinion of each country on a relative and absolute basis.
• Provide a macro-economic view for each country, which will be a strong component of the asset allocation framework for these asset classes done by the CIO.
• Creation of presentations to represent the view taken for clients, salespeople and relationship managers in the company, and be able to defend this opinion.
• Using the various global economic view available from other offices, assess the implication of global forecasts on the Asian region, and if required, formulate his/her own opinion about the global direction.
Profile:
• An advanced degree in any financial, economic or business discipline.
• A minimum of 5 years experience as an Asian economist either on the buy or sell side
• Intimate in depth knowledge of the main Asian economies from a ground up basis,
• A mindset to work independently without much guidance to analyze market and economic data, analyze opinions received from sell side economists, and to create economic views with this support.
• Ability to create presentations to outline and support economic views taken in Asia
• Fluent in at least one Asian language
Interested candidates please send your CV to Sin-Yin Lui at sinyinlui@puresearch.com quoting reference number SYL_ECO or alternatively, apply online below.
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