Manager - Quantitative Strategies

Eastspring is a global asset manager with Asia at its core. We create a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our colleagues, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and in exchange, we support our people's career ambitions. We pledge to make Eastspring a place where you can Connect, Grow and Succeed.

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
 

Join a growing quantitative investment platform where research, portfolio engineering and execution come together to shape real outcomes across global equity portfolios.

This is a hands-on role in a strategic growth area, with responsibilities spanning research, portfolio implementation and business development support, including:

• Research and development of new index strategies and beta solutions and improvements to existing solutions, including but not limited to new data exploration, portfolio engineering and optimization methodologies.
• Day-to-day monitoring and management of selected portfolios and beta funds (e.g. portfolio rebalancing, monitoring dividends, investment decisions around cash flows, corporate actions etc)
• Create, review and monitor trade orders. Working closely with the dealing desk to manage the trade orders efficiently and effectively
• Add value through superior portfolio implementation and management in a consistent and risk-controlled manner, including through corporate action, index rebalancing and capital market strategies.
• Where necessary, provide fundamental or qualitative overlay to selected beta solutions.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the beta solutions platform and capabilities.
• Participate in and contribute to team research projects and present updates and findings in regular internal forums
• Research and contribute to the ongoing development of the portfolio implementation capabilities that will provide efficiency in the process and ultimately fund performance and risk improvements.
• Collaborate with data and infrastructure team members to ensure tools and data sets used for the research and portfolio implementation are robust, version controlled and consistent with best practice
• Support and participate in client service, advisory and engagement activities as well as assisting in building of custom beta solutions
• Produce regular reports and adhoc publications as required
• Influence real portfolio outcomes across global equity markets and investment themes.
• Partner with investment, trading, data, technology, client and risk teams to build broad cross-functional expertise.
• Bring fresh ideas to an entrepreneurial team that values innovation, ownership and practical problem-solving.

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REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate will have 5-10 years of experience building and managing quantitative or passive strategies and carrying out relevant research with a focus on global equities and a proven track record. The following would be a strong advantage:

• Experience or familiarity with middle office processes.
• Exposure to index construction methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge of financial markets, quantitative investment strategies and index construction methodologies.
• Strong experience in equity portfolio management, including portfolio enhancement, corporate action and/or capital market strategies
• Experience with FX management and currency implementation for global equity portfolios, including cash-flow related FX execution, hedging considerations and settlement-aware implementation. 
• Experience with tax-aware portfolio optimization and implementation, including dividend withholding tax and capital gains tax considerations, tax-efficient trading decisions and market-specific tax or operational constraints where relevant. 
• Strong corporate action implementation experience, including assessing portfolio, index, cash-flow and client-impact implications, and coordinating timely execution decisions. 
• Broader portfolio implementation skills, including index rebalancing, transition management, liquidity-aware trading, cash equitization, derivatives for efficient portfolio management, order construction, trade cost/risk analysis and post-trade monitoring. 
• Familiarity in using derivatives for efficient portfolio management and/or hedging purposes
• Able to work well with various teams in the organisation, also able to take the initiative and work autonomously when required
• A critical thinker
• Good interpersonal skills and articulate, with an ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders
• Open to challenge and debate
• Hands-on with keen attention to detail

Join Us To:

• Make an impact in a strategic growth area with strong visibility across investment leadership.
• Turn quantitative research into scalable portfolio solutions, from idea generation to execution.
• Build expertise in portfolio engineering, index implementation, risk-controlled trading and cross-market operations.
• Join a collaborative culture that encourages curiosity, ownership, robust debate and continuous improvement.

Eastspring is an equal opportunity employer.  We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.