Multi Asset Research Analyst London, England
MFS Investment Management
Full Time
London, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters – to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.
What you will be responsible for:
MFS is looking for an experienced Multi Asset research analyst to help expand MFS’s existing Multi Asset platform. While the platform currently has significant AUM, further growth will require strong collaboration between the fundamental equity, fixed income and quantitative investment teams. This particular role with be focused on asset allocation, with a significant emphasis on the fundamental equity perspective. This will involve working with MFS’s fundamental equity team to identify and harvest the team’s strongest multi asset investment ideas in addition to conducting independent research primarily focused on equity investing in multi asset portfolios.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work directly with MFS’s fundamental equity team to identify the team’s most important views on multi asset investing.
- Conduct fundamental research and contribute thought leadership on different aspects of cross asset investing, with a particular focus on how equities and equity factors fit into multi asset portfolios.
- Contribute to the further development of the multi-asset platform, particularly bringing fundamental top down equities expertise to bear, including, but not limited to; strategic and dynamic asset allocation techniques including the use of derivatives, the incorporation of macro into the allocation process, quantitative and qualitative risk management, and portfolio optimization.
- Collaborate significantly with other members of the multi asset investment group and with the relevant teams in the Equity, Quant and Fixed Income in all aspects of the above.
- Generate actionable medium to long term investment ideas for alpha creation and tail risk management in portfolios
- In conjunction with the MFS Strategist, collaborate with the Distribution team to enable content creation related to fundamental work undertaken
- Support multi asset Portfolio Managers with structure and execution of trades and monitoring
Required qualifications & Experience:
- Significant familiarity and understanding of the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the above, with a particular focus on long term fundamentals. Whilst not limited to the equity point of view, strong equity knowledge is required.
- Ability to think independently and question the status quo
- Strong desire to collaborate, scrutinize and be scrutinized
- 7+ years of experience in multi-asset investing or asset allocation
- Strong financial modeling skills, good understanding of statistics, familiarity with financial databases
- Familiarity with macro drivers and fundamentals
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At MFS, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply - you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.
What we offer:
At MFS, we view our employees as family — and like you, we want our family happy and healthy. That's why we provide competitive benefits programs and family-friendly policies which support the work-life balance needs of our employees.
MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.
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