Director - Multi-Asset Research, Global Investment Research

The Global Investment Research (GIR) team is a client-facing research group, within the Equity and Multi-Asset business vertical, with team members in the Americas, EMEA and APAC. The team publishes insights on current market dynamics across global regions and asset classes (e.g., equities, equity factors, fixed income, multi-asset, cross-asset, wealth, asset allocation, portfolio construction dynamics). Our analysis is based primarily on data from FTSE Russell indices, along with other LSEG data sets and some external data sources, which are representative of markets across asset classes and geographies. Our research, by way of monthly and quarterly reports, topical commentaries and deep-dive empirical research, and our research presentations to clients and the investment and wealth ecosystem, enhances our engagement with clients, including asset owners, asset managers, and wealth channels.

Role Purpose and responsibilities

This role sits within the Global Investment Research (GIR) team and is focused on equities and multi-assets investment research. The candidate should understand different parts of equities (geographical markets, style, size) and all other major asset classes from a multi-asset and cross-asset perspective. The ideal candidate should understand the impact of macroeconomics on financial markets, and have a background in wealth, asset allocation or multi-asset portfolio construction. An understanding of derivatives and hedging tools would be a great plus.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Taking a key role in Equities and Multi-asset research and analysis
• Doing research and investment writing needed for delivering high quality, thought-provoking research content, by way of regular periodical research reports, topical research insights, white papers and deep thematic research, published through multiple channels. All research efforts are aimed at deepening client engagement, providing critical support for existing and new equity and multi-asset indices by FTSE Russell, increasing the value proposition and awareness of FTSE Russell indices within the institutional and wealth channels
• Hosting webinars, senior/strategic client-facing research engagements and actively participate in industry conferences and events. Strong written and verbal presentation skills are a must
• Take ownership of wealth, portfolio construction, multi-asset, cross-asset and asset allocation thought-leadership, and all related client engagements in the EMEA region
• Manage a team with skillset in fundamental and quantitative research. Current team size would be two direct reports, though that could change in future
• Working closely with others in the GIR team, and contributing to the research efforts of team members across asset classes, and based in different locations
• Proactively thinking of utilizing new datasets and analytics to expand the repertoire of GIR research
• Actively engaging and partnering with key internal stakeholders in Product, Index creation Research, Marketing, Sales, and external stakeholders of FTSE Russell. Working closely with regional and global teams to support the further development of global equity and multi-asset product strategies to drive ETF client adoption and AUM-based revenues from both Wealth and Institutional channels

Requirements

• Post-Graduate / Ph.D. in a quantitative field or investment management field. CFA would be a plus
• Background and 10+ years experience in multi-asset or cross-asset investment research and portfolio management, either on buy-side or sell-side, in wealth or institutional money management. Excellent knowledge and understanding of investment analytics and quantitative investment techniques, with some specialist product knowledge
• Deep understanding of global equities and multi-asset investing is an absolute must. Essential to have a holistic understanding of financial markets from a multi-asset perspective and macroeconomy. Understanding of multi-asset and cross-asset from an asset allocation, portfolio construction and scenario analysis perspective is essential
• Strong background in statistics, econometrics, and numerical methods is needed. Good coding skills to support empirical research, including good working knowledge of a quantitative programming language such as Python
• A proven track record of authorship of client facing technical literature/research in equities, macroeconomics, and multi-assets, investment management and portfolio construction or related fields
• Experience of senior level client engagement in a research capacity, with the required gravitas and presentation skills
• Familiarity with and interest in financial data required. Experience with Workspace and similar data platforms would be a great plus. Experience working with index data and financial datasets like Datastream would be a great plus
• Experience in Wealth management would be a great plus. Experience in derivatives and hedging strategies would be a great plus
• Ability to work in a global team across time zones

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