Core Responsibilities
- Provide a unique and original perspective that will enable the firm to have more correct and differentiated investment judgments leading to superior returns for our clients.
- Conduct extensive fundamental research and analysis to understand the core drivers and prospects of a business, determine whether it represents an attractive opportunity, and present the idea during investment team meetings
- Make buy/sell decisions for stocks across domestic and international products as a member of the equity investment team
- Lead meetings with executive management, industry contacts, and research analysts to identify investment opportunities and risks.
- Lead quarterly presentations to clients; present results, share the firm’s investment philosophy, and discuss specific holdings at board meetings.
- Support new business initiatives and interact with prospective clients
Qualifications
- Industry expertise (e.g., consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare, …)
- Functional area(s) of expertise (e.g., Data Science, Operations, Marketing, General Management)
- Outstanding academic and professional achievements
- Curious with a strong willingness to learn
- Sharp, observant, insightful, creative, and motivated
- Independent and critical thinker with the ability to assess the ‘big picture’
- Strong desire to compete and deliver professional excellence
- Ability to leverage professional experience and network to better assess the prospects of a business
- Ability to succeed in an unstructured environment with little supervision, and work effectively in a team
- Comfortable working in a fast paced and dynamic environment
- Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and persuasively, both verbally and in writing
- Language skills are a plus
Skills Required
- Industry expertise (e.g., consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare)
- Functional area expertise (e.g., Data Science, Operations, Marketing)
- Outstanding academic and professional achievements
- Strong willingness to learn and adapt
- Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively
What We Do
EARNEST Partners LLC is an employee owned institutional investment management firm. The firm primarily manages assets on behalf of public funds, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments, foundations, charitable organizations, corporations, and state and municipal government entities. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm employs a fundamental and a statistical analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to make its equity investments. For its fixed income investments, it invests in U.S. Government agency debt, U.S. investment grade debt, mortgage-backed securities, and asset-backed securities. The firm employs a credit and a fundamental analysis to make its fixed income investments. EARNEST Partners was founded in 1998 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional research operations in Brazil and China.
