• Job Description

  Req#: 210481242

  J.P. Morgan Asset Management is the world’s third-largest alternatives manager, with a 40-year history of delivering innovative alternative solutions across market cycles. Our alternative investment engines are managed by highly specialized independent teams, backed by the global reach, vast resources and robust governance of J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Our alternative strategies are designed to achieve specific client outcomes and built to deliver uncorrelated returns to traditional asset classes. Customized alternative portfolios can be tailored to individual client needs. We offer strategies across the alternative investment spectrum, including real estate, private equity and credit, infrastructure, transportation, liquid alternatives and hedge funds.

  The Macro Strategies team, based in London, manages $6.5 bn+ for clients globally in multi-asset portfolios which aim to deliver positive returns for investors through varying market environments, seeking to provide a truly alternative product with consistent outcomes. The team seeks to identify investment opportunities that arise in markets from the mispricing of macro drivers by using a research-oriented macro framework, carrying out comprehensive security-level analysis and employing flexibility and dynamically adjusting exposures as the macro backdrop evolves.

  Role Summary:

  In this role as junior Portfolio Manager for the Macro Strategies team you will conduct macro and asset class research, assist with the implementation of macro views in portfolios, and perform other general portfolio management duties.

  Job Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the portfolio management of Macro Strategies portfolios. Day-to-day portfolio management responsibilities include managing cash flows, sizing trades, ensuring portfolios are managed in accordance with investment guidelines
  • Conduct in-depth research of macro economic drivers of markets, contributing to team discussions and informing portfolio views
  • Build on existing knowledge across asset classes with focus on fundamental, valuation, ESG and technicals
  • Over time, the PM will be expected to contribute increasingly to portfolio management decisions

  Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Recent, relevant experience in a market facing role (preferably working at a buy-side firm but sell-side experience also considered)
  • Solid experience of a major asset class with additional asset class experience preferable

  Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Strong work ethic and high level of curiosity
  • Excellent communication skills (listening, verbal, and written)
  • Attention to detail and accuracy in a fast moving, demanding environment
  • Ability to work both collaboratively and independently
  • Strong technical and analytical skills
  • Python proficiency desirable

  This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.

• About the company

  J.P. Morgan is a leader in financial services, offering solutions to clients in more than 100 countries with one of the most comprehensive global product platforms available. We have been helping our clients to do business and manage their wealth for more than 200 years. Our business has been built upon our core principle of putting our clients'​ interests first.

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