Investment Portfolio Allocation - Associate – Sovereign fund
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Overview: We are working with a leading institutional investor to find a talented Associate to join their Dubai-based investment team. This is a high-calibre platform managing multi-billion dollar public markets portfolios across global equities, fixed income, commodities, and liquid alternatives.
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Overview
We are working with a leading institutional investor to find a talented Associate to join their Dubai-based investment team.
This is a high-calibre platform managing multi-billion dollar public markets portfolios across global equities, fixed income, commodities, and liquid alternatives.
This role is ideal for someone with proven SAA/TAA experience and direct exposure to hedge fund manager selection and oversigh who is ready to step into a senior analytical role with real ownership and visibility.
The Role
- Reporting to the Head of Public Markets, you will be a core contributor across:
- Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) — building capital market assumptions, running optimisation and scenario studies, and preparing governance-ready allocation recommendations for Investment Committee and Board
- Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) & Macro Research — developing TAA signals across equities, rates, credit, FX and commodities; back-testing strategies and implementing views via ETFs, derivatives, and overlays
- Hedge Funds & Liquid Alternatives — evaluating and overseeing external managers including hedge funds (long/short, macro, risk premia); full manager lifecycle from due diligence through ongoing monitoring
- Portfolio Construction & Risk Analytics — multi-asset optimisation, factor decomposition, risk budgeting, ex-ante/ex-post attribution
- Governance & Reporting — producing investment analytics packs, dashboards, and presentations for senior stakeholders
Requirments
- 2–4 years in public markets investing at a sovereign wealth fund, family office, or asset manager
- Hands-on SAA and TAA experience — capital market assumptions, optimisation, scenario analysis, macro-to-portfolio translation
- Direct hedge fund exposure — manager selection, due diligence, performance monitoring
- Risk systems fluency: Barra, Axioma, RiskMetrics, Bloomberg, Datastream
- Programming skills: Python or R, SQL, Excel/VBA
- CFA or equivalent advanced qualification
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