SENIOR STRATEGIST recruitment
Responsibilities
- Assess the medium-term global environment and developing the internal analytical infrastructure to support the formulation of the Company’s medium-term investment strategy
- Develop and maintaining an investment framework to guide investment strategies over a 3-5 year time horizon
- Develop and maintain a systematic monitoring framework to track economic and financial markets, understand and model the linkages between the economic environment and asset pricing cycles
- Lead a research effort and develop models to understand the factors that drive asset returns, including the time varying behavior of asset risk premium. The assets of interest to us include listed equities, bonds, commodities, currencies and unlisted or private markets such as private equities and real estate
- Preparing and presenting strategy reports to Senior Management
- Keeping abreast of the latest academic work in Economics/Finance and Portfolio Management and translating them into useable strategies
Requirements
- MBA or equivalent post graduate studies from highly reputable institution
- Min 10 years’ experience in the finance industry which includes formulating investment strategies for equities, fixed income, commodity and currencies, or in economics/policy research for an established investment organization
- A keen interest in economics and financial markets research
- Those with CFA and portfolio management experience will have an added advantage
- A good understanding of various approaches to value broad asset classes such as Developed Emerging Equities, Government Bonds, Commodities and Currencies
- Familiarity with macro models like NiGem, programming language(e.g. Matlab, R) and database software like Datastream and Factset will be an advantage
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
To submit your application, please email your resume in word format to Leo Anderson Woon at Leoanderson_woon@kellyservices.com.sg Your interest will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
May 24, 2012
• Tags: Asset Management careers in the Singapore, Senior Strategist recruitment • Posted in: Financial