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Departmental Overview:
BlackRock offers a range of investment products—equity, fixed income, liquidity, and alternative investment—each of which is managed by a dedicated investment team of portfolio managers, research analysts, and traders. Focused portfolio management and proprietary research are the cornerstones of our investment philosophy, and portfolio construction is based on each team’s market outlook.
Our portfolio teams manage assets for institutional and individual investors alike. Accordingly, all of our clients benefit from our portfolio management expertise and risk management analytics.
Role: This role offers an exceptional opportunity to join a small dynamic manager research team that is tasked with developing industry leading techniques and innovations around manager research and selection. The role involves research and process development to support investment value-added manager selection decisions and client facing communication responsibilities, as part of the leading multi-asset investment team at one of the world’s premier asset managers.
Key responsibilities: Support the effort to develop and maintain an institutional quality manager search and selection process, based on proprietary quantitative analytics supported by robust fundamental judgement Develop and calculate clear metrics for evaluating strategies on an alpha-only basis; and develop skill definitions adjusted for risk factor biases Develop and manage the manager database, ensuring all required analyses are available on a timely, consistent and quality controlled basis. Focus is on long-only strategies across asset classes, regions and styles. Will need to develop links and leverage other internal manager search teams on alternatives as necessary (e.g. Hedge Fund, Property, Private Equity, and other private capital strategies) Work as part of a global ‘rapid-response’ team to search out and select best fit managers to fill specific investment opportunity-based gaps in MAPS’ relative and absolute return strategies Coordinate with portfolio managers across MAPS to monitor all strategies owned across the team Partner with Risk and Quantitative Analytics team to develop proprietary performance measures and further develop and integrate existing internal performance and skill measurement metrics and techniques into MAPS evaluation of managers and strategies Support the team’s development of new business where manager selection is a necessary core competency Maintain strong competitive insights on the market place and peer-group product offerings and innovations. 7
Experience/Qualifications: Deep quantitative analytical skills and a proven experience in analysing return series Advanced degree in finance or statistics Proven experience of programming Relevant investment management experience: o clear understanding of financial and economic markets o broad knowledge of traditional equity and fixed income asset class products, and alternative investment products (preferably) o broad knowledge of different style/size/technique investment processes and strategy differentiators The ability to build strong working relationships both externally and internally, across all areas of business Skills See Job Description.
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