Solutions Strategy Manager - London, United Kingdom - Legal & General

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Job Description

The world of investment is changing. Our vision atLegal & General Investment Managementis to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients' complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We're focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future

We're currently looking to hire a proactive, driven Solutions Strategy Manager to join Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM)

As Solutions Strategy Manager you'll highlight LGIM capabilities that clients could consider to enhance the efficiency of their Endgame DB portfolios.Working closely with the wider Solutions Strategy team within LGIM's Solutions Group, the teams' objectives are to help our DB clients evolve their Credit & LDI portfolios towards an integrated CDI strategy, and, where appropriate, target buy-in or buyout of the Scheme liabilities, whether with Legal & General or another insurer

• Acting as a point of contact for a number of investment clients including those with investments in LDI and Credit (or CDI)
• Being the link between other specialist investments teams within LGIM, as well as the distribution channel by driving forward the LGIM DB approach
• Collaborating with the team to streamline existing process, taking ownership for appropriate tasks
• Evolving the Endgame business offering and servicing across LGIM to better support our clients (for example enhanced reporting for CDI and buyout funding level and sensitivity). This may be implemented through being involved in Strategic projects both within LGIM and in cross-divisional working groups with other L&G group entities
• Supporting clients by helping them get to their Endgame objective whilst highlighting LGIM capabilities (could be specific or a whole portfolio)
• Appropriate understanding of DB clients' objectives, the regulations they face and the challenges they need to overcome, in particular in relation to the Pension Regulator's consultation on Scheme Funding and the requirement for Schemes to set a Long Term Objective

• Experience of setting investment strategy and carrying out portfolio construction
• You'll be a strong communicator/relationship builder, with the ability to communicate in investment terms
• Experience or an understanding in LDI, CDI, DB Pensions or Buy & Maintain Investment approaches.
• Previous experience in supporting the ESG Investment approach and driving this forward.
• Appropriate experience of working within asset management, investment, pension risk transfer consultancy or knowledge of some of the asset classes is required.
• You''ll have an understanding of the Pension Risk Transfer market and how DB pension schemes transact with insurers desirable.
  
  

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

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