Company Overview
• The organization offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.5 million customers globally.
• As a privately held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term.
• Operating in more than 25 locations and with $608.7billion in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers, and wealth managers, to private individuals.
• Our Workplace & Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $437 billion on behalf of our clients.
• By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures.
Job Description
Purpose of the role:
The role primarily consists of supporting the global macro research team in analyzing macroeconomic developments and gauging their market implications across asset classes.
Key Responsibilities:
• Supporting the team's macro research process using qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze macroeconomic developments and their implications for markets
• Building and maintaining charts on key economic and market indicators, putting together presentations and other materials to disseminate the team's views
• Preparing coverage on policy, political or other relevant developments for internal meetings
• Participating in team discussions on macro views
Requirements
Experience and Qualifications:
• Bachelors or Masters in Economics
• 5-7 years of relevant experience
• Strong understanding of data and applied quantitative skills, with experience in a programming language, preferred
• Strong understanding of macroeconomics and its linkages to markets
• Enthusiastic about the challenges of forming forward-looking, out of consensus views with the aim to add value to the investment process
• Experience in automation using advanced excel and VBA macros will be a plus.
• Working knowledge of visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, etc., will be a plus.
Desired Qualities:
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Excellent writing skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Strong team player
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work within a diverse team as an integrated team member