Senior Equity Analyst - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers
Description
Primary Responsibilities:
- Ability to produce high quality, rigorous evidence supporting all investment decisions.
- Ability to analyse and attribute fund performance by country, region and/or sector exposure and provide insightful commentary to highlight any significant developments.
- Ability to analyse individual fund manager style, trading activity, portfolio risk and consistency of investment approach and subsequently challenge fund managers where appropriate.
- Primary analytical (monitoring) responsibilities on the major equity strategies on the investment platform.
- Leading and coordinating major research projects on investment managers and strategies designed to augment the Client's offering.
- Assessing and managing the appropriate blend of managers / strategies utilized within the Client's major equity building block / manager of manager funds
- Assisting in the design of the investment processes that inform the investment decision making of the equities team and wider division.
- Presenting to Investment Committees and other executive boards on critical investment issues.
- Proven experience in making and owning investment recommendations and decisions
- An exemplary understanding of all elements of investment manager / strategy research.
- Evident skill and experience in designing complementary blends / packages of managers / strategies.
- A deep understanding of the features of a highquality decisionmaking process and how to implement it.
- Sophisticated use of data and analytics to produce the evidence to inform decision making.
- Ability to mentor and lead junior analysts, creating a culture of support and development.
- Ability to compare, contrast and combine the full universe of equity strategies from pure passive to quantitative and high conviction active.
- A passion for investment research and a willingness to drive the investment research agenda of the team and business.
- Strong technical knowledge of public equities markets and the investment processes used by active longonly public equities managers.
Background Experience:
- Front office investment experience and a history of making investment decision from research initiation to implementation and ownership.
- Experience of deep and detailed manager / strategy research is preferred, although direct investing experience also considered.
- Expertise in blending and combining strategies and managers into wellbalanced blends, ensuring risk are intended and manageable.
- Experience presenting complex topics to senior boards and committees
- Degree qualified, or equivalent.
- Preferably attained CFA exams, or equivalent.
- Practical experience of analytical systems such as Aladdin / Bloomberg / Style Research / Factset.
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