Senior Strategist recruitment
The main responsibilites will include
Developing and maintaining an investment framework to guide investment strategies, Developing and maintaining a systematic monitoring framework to track economic and financial markets, understand and model the linkages between the economic environment and asset pricing cycles,This includes a clear approach to estimating the macro economic conditions that are priced into the equity, bonds, commodity and currency markets.
Leading a research effort and develop models to understand the factors that drive asset returns, including the time varying behaviour of asset risk premium,Prepare and present strategy reports to senior management.
The candidate must have Masters Degree in Economics/Finance with a keen interest in economics and financial markets research. Those with CFA and portfolio management experience will have an advantage. You should have at least 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 organisation.
You must have a good understanding of various approaches to value broad asset classes such as Developed Emerging Equities, Government Bonds, Commodities and Currencies.
Strong Analytical skills, be able to voice own opinion, familiarity with macro models like NiGem, Matlab R, Datastream and factset will be an advantage.
Please Email your CV to lorna_somerville@kellyselection.com.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.