Portfolio Manager

Overview

As a London-based Portfolio Manager on the liquid alternatives platform, you will formulate and construct investment strategies focused on liquid European government bonds, rates, and derivatives. You will originate and manage bottom-up ideas while building strong relationships with sell-side and internal teams. You’ll work to generate multi-asset ideas, execute trades, and potentially oversee an independent risk-capital allocation within a high-performance, inclusive culture. This role offers meaningful contribution to a leading fixed income house at scale across developed and emerging markets.

Responsibilities

• Combine market knowledge with macroeconomic and quantitative analysis to generate multi-asset ideas in liquid European rates space
• Focus on European government bonds, rates and derivatives with potential expansion to DM/EM exposures
• Construct bottom-up rates/derivatives relative value expressions and contribute to macro views
• Provide market color and insights to other portfolio managers
• Execute trades for other portfolio managers within the liquid alternatives business
• Potential to manage an independent allocation of risk capital within the liquid alternatives business
• Support the wider team’s portfolio and processes across the portfolio management context
• Handle ad hoc requests across functional areas

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of five years’ experience managing European government bonds, rates and derivatives-focused portfolios at a prominent buy-side or sell-side institution
• Strong quantitative experience with developing and applying empirical investment models to analyse market data and variables

• Commonsensical approach to investing
• Intellectual flexibility
• Strong collaborative orientation with colleagues and clients
• Quantitative analysis of market data and economic variables
• Development and modification of empirical investment models
• Multi-asset investment framework

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