Senior Investment Analyst- Fixed Income recruitment
On offer:
Relocation assistance
Attractive TAX FREE Ex-pat package, commensurate with work experience
Opportunityto work with a highly reputable organisation
The Role (Reports to the Chief Investment Officer)
Responsible for managing Hedge Funds assets allocated to the assigned mandate with the objective of outperforming the relevant benchmarks while operating within the defined investment guidelines.
Responsible for manager sourcing, evaluation, characteristics analysis, comparative analysis, style
analysis, and legal and investment aspects of fund manager contract.
Responsibilities:
* Evaluates and filters out specific information on leads on specific managers. Includes carrying out
enquiries on profiles of managers and their funds through periodic updates from sources that lend
confidence to arriving at a judgment.
* Carries out thorough review of managers through regular interactions or through reports on managers, to reinforce confidence that the manager follows the underlying principles of fair representation and full disclosure in areas like valuation and consistency of internal policies. Audits reported data to ensure accuracy and confidence.
* Forecasts and reports on long and short term economic and business trends directly affecting
alternative investment assets and opportunities. Uses such forecasts to develop asset allocation
strategies to track and outperform the benchmark.
* Demonstrates thorough understanding of the Global Macro market and the main players includes
strategy characteristics and analysis of the subset of hedge fund strategies that includes CTAs and
Global Macro funds. Abreast of current global macroeconomic events affecting FX, interest rate and commodity movements worldwide.
* Needs to have a sound understanding of the subset of hedge fund strategies in the areas of relative value and event-driven market that includes fixed income, convertible, merger, capital structure, statistical arbitrage as well as distressed securities, high yield debt, and special opportunities funds.
* Produces and apply risk control measures to the strategies and portfolios and analyzes correlations among trading strategies and portfolios by creating portfolio optimization models using different risk measurement techniques such as VaR methods, scenario analysis, andMonte Carlosimulations as well as applications such as Risk Metrics.
* Employs various valuation methods to price financial securities/instruments, which are relevant to the respective asset class and trades recommended.
* Identifies and recommends specific software packages based on business requirements. Manipulates and recommends necessary upgrades on existing packages for asset allocation, manager monitoring, performance evaluation and risk control.
* Calculates investment statistics such as returns and risk factors for different periods for different
strategies and portfolios strategies and identifies strengths and weaknesses of the statistics.
Background and Experience Required for the role:
* University Degree, preferably in Business or related field
* CFA and/or MA/MBA
* Minimum of 5 years capital market experience from a reputable organization and with solid academic background. Must have a good appreciation and experience of macro research, macro trends and specific macro overlays/trades across various asset classes. Ideally must have actively traded securities in a proprietary capacity and have a sound understanding of hedging techniques. Must have excellent credit fixed income rates trading experiences. An understanding/experience in hedge fund trading strategies and detailed portfolio hedging techniques is preferable.
Co-Investment experience (preferable for both, but a must for at least one of the two)
* Must have had specific research (credit/equity) experience. The candidate should be able to scan the market for specific co-investment opportunities. Employs various valuation methods to price the different financial securities and instruments. Explain the implications of leading and lagging economic and financial indicators on the strategies/positions of managers in the portfolio. An
understanding/experience in hedge fund trading strategies is preferable.
Please note that due to volume I cannot get back to everyone, however every application is looked at and considered. If you have not heard back from me within 5 working days you should assume your initial application has been unsuccessful, however I will add your details to our database and if a suitable role arises in the future I will make every effort to contact you.
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