Senor Associate – Strategic Asset Allocator/External Funds - Public Markets - SWF
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About the Role
We are partnering with a leading sovereign wealth investor to hire a Senior Associate into its Public Markets team. The role focuses on selecting, appointing, and overseeing external fund managers across global public markets, requiring strong manager research and due diligence skills.
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Responsibilities
- Map the investable external manager universe across asset classes, styles and geographies
- Screen strategies on performance, risk, factor exposures, drawdowns, liquidity, capacity and fees to shortlist managers
- Lead qualitative and quantitative due diligence, including meetings with portfolio managers, analysts and risk officers
- Apply analytics to distinguish genuinely active, skilled managers from market beta
- Coordinate operational and risk due diligence with risk, legal and compliance teams
- Prepare manager selection reports and investment memos, and present hire/retain/redeem recommendations to investment committees
- Negotiate mandate terms, fees, performance structures, liquidity terms and side letters
- Monitor appointed managers against benchmarks and peers, maintaining conviction ratings
- Support rebalancing and allocation sizing decisions
Requirements
- 5–7 years in public markets investing with a clear emphasis on external manager selection, including Hedge Funds, oversight and monitoring
- Demonstrable hedge fund and liquid alternatives manager selection experience
- Strong manager research depth: ability to judge whether a manager's past results are repeatable
- Solid quantitative evaluation skills across performance, factor/style and risk analysis
- Structured decision making, sound risk awareness and judgement to make clear hire/retain/terminate calls
- Confident written and verbal communication, with ability to defend recommendations to investment committees
- CFA or an advanced degree in finance, economics or a related field
- High integrity, a fiduciary mindset and an entrepreneurial, self starting approach
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Role Overview
- We are partnering with a leading sovereign wealth investor to hire a Senior Associate into its Public Markets team.
- This is a strategic asset allocator seat: the core of the role is selecting, appointing and overseeing best in class external fund managers across global public markets.
- The mandate is built around long term, strategic allocation of capital through external managers.
What you will focus on
- Mapping the investable external manager universe across asset classes, styles and geographies using databases, consultant networks, conferences and industry contacts.
- Screening strategies on performance, risk, factor exposures, drawdowns, liquidity, capacity and fees to shortlist managers for deeper due diligence.
- Leading qualitative and quantitative due diligence, including meetings with portfolio managers, analysts and risk officers, to assess philosophy, process, portfolio construction, alpha drivers and team stability.
- Applying analytics to distinguish genuinely active, skilled managers from market beta, and testing whether fees and compensation are justified.
- Coordinating operational and risk due diligence with risk, legal and compliance teams.
- Preparing manager selection reports and investment memos, and presenting hire / retain / redeem recommendations to investment committees.
- Negotiating mandate terms, fees, performance structures, liquidity terms and side letters to align manager incentives with the institution's objectives.
- Monitoring appointed managers against benchmarks and peers, maintaining conviction ratings, and supporting rebalancing and allocation sizing decisions.
What we are looking for
- 5–7 years in public markets investing, with a clear emphasis on external manager selection, including Hedge Funds, oversight and monitoring (from a pension fund, consultant, family office, SWF or asset manager).
- Demonstrable hedge fund and liquid alternatives manager selection experience is important for this mandate.
- A genuine orientation toward long term, strategic allocation through external funds rather than active, day to day position management.
- Strong manager research depth: the ability to judge whether a manager's past results are repeatable.
- Solid quantitative evaluation skills across performance, factor/style and risk analysis.
- Structured decision making, sound risk awareness and the judgement to make clear hire/retain/terminate calls.
- Confident written and verbal communication, with the ability to defend recommendations to investment committees.
- CFA or an advanced degree in finance, economics or a related field.
- High integrity, a fiduciary mindset and an entrepreneurial, self starting approach.
What is on offer
- A high visibility seat with one of the region's most respected institutional investors.
- Direct exposure to senior decision makers and global external managers.
- A long term, conviction led approach to public markets investing, based in Dubai.
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