Role Overview
Insight Investment are looking for a Portfolio Manager to support the team in management of systematic corporate bonds and emerging market debt portfolios, presenting strategy performance to clients, pitching strategies to prospects, and creating a strategic vision for the team,
Role Responsibilities:
Portfolio Management
- Daily monitoring of portfolio risk on multiple systems, ensuring that portfolio exposures are closely aligned with target model exposures.
- Understanding and vetting model outputs and how they relate to portfolio target exposures
- Complex portfolio performance attribution using in-house tools and Bloomberg PORT.
- Designing optimal trades to invest cash flows and rebalance portfolios toward target model weights; analyzing multiple types of portfolio trades and working with portfolio managers, traders, market counterparties, operations, and compliance teams to ensure best execution and settlement.
Client engagement and business advancement
- Responding to client and prospective client inquiries with portfolio and market analysis, including monthly market and portfolio commentary.
- Designing pitchbook presentations, working with Distribution teams globally to strategize on best marketing strategy.
- Writing white papers specializing on market, portfolio, and trading analysis to highlight Insight’s unique value add to investors.
- Exploring new strategy ideas in collaboration with Research, Distribution and other stakeholders.
Experience required
Portfolio management
- 10+ years of experience in fixed income markets.
- Deep knowledge of fixed income ETF markets, including familiarity with key players within authorized participants, broker-dealers, and liquidity providers.
- Execution and detail oriented whilst working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Quantitative skills, ability to interpret and question quant models and perform analyses in Python, Excel, and Bloomberg.
Communication and Leadership
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, ability to represent strategies to clients and internal stakeholders
- Ability to lead but also to listen and take on undesirable tasks when required; we believe in a flat hierarchy where we are respectful of one another and all pitch in to help each other.
- Highly inquisitive and competitive, skeptical of the status quo, with an innate desire to improve team output and strive for better and faster than our competitors
Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected]
About Insight Investment
Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients’ needs. Founded in 2002, Insight’s collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities.
Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: www.insightinvestment.com
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What We Do
Insight* is one of Europe’s largest investment managers** responsible for £626.2bn/€757.3bn*** in assets under management (AUM) across fixed income, risk management strategies including liability-driven investment (LDI) and currency risk management, absolute return and multi-asset capabilities. Based in London, Insight is a specialist asset manager with a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. Our clients include pension funds, corporates, local authorities, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers, financial institutions and supranationals. Insight's mission is to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting their chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility. Read our mission statement here: www.insightinvestment.com/uk/introducing-insight/our-mission-statement/ We believe responsible investment means helping our clients achieve their desired outcomes and reflecting their priorities. We aim to identify, assess and manage factors that we deem to be financially material, while also reflecting our clients’ sustainability preferences. We were a founding signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006. For more on Insight’s approach to responsible investment, visit https://www.insightinvestment.com/investing-responsibly Posts are intended for UK/EU professional investors only. Capital at risk. *Insight is the corporate brand for certain companies operated by Insight Investment Management Limited (IIML). **IPE, ‘Top 500 Asset Managers’ survey, June 2024. Insight is ranked fifth out of the top 120 European institutional managers by total AUM for external Europe-domiciled institutional clients. ***As at 31 December 2024. AUM are represented by the value of cash securities and other economic exposure managed for clients.
