Senior Investment Analyst – GEM Equities - Ref: AB12702
An exciting opportunity has arisen within this highly regarded boutique Asset Manager for an experienced Equities Investment Analyst to form an integral part of the Emerging Market Equities team and assist in the research capability across Asia and in particular China.
Roles & Responsibilities
The individual will be responsible for analysing new investment opportunities, making investment recommendations to the team, monitoring existing investments and driving sustainability driven engagement with portfolio companies
The candidate will be responsible for idea generation and evaluating investment opportunities across emerging markets, with an initial focus on Chinese and wider Asian markets
Conduct fundamental industry and company specific research driven by rigorous financial analysis and modelling. The candidate should enjoy conducting primary research as part of our 360 degree due diligence process
Lead investment research calls with prospective portfolio companies and be interested in the tools required to successfully engage with portfolio companies
Assist the team with sustainability driven engagement plans with portfolio companies to help our investments unlock their value potential. This will include creating presentations for portfolio company management teams alongside presenting them, with the wider team’s support, in due course.
Over time, the individual may be given responsibility to help with portfolio management and wider portfolio construction tasks alongside representing the team to existing and prospective institutional clients.
Experience & Qualifications
Circa 5 years investing experience with a background in buy-side public markets, private equity or sell side research ideally backed by a proven track record of stock picking success.
Technology & Healthcare sector experience is useful but not a pre-requisite.
Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills with an ability to assimilate and synthesise data sets
Exceptional research capabilities that go significantly above and beyond industry practice, which drive investment recommendations communicated with strong conviction.
A contrarian mind-set that is supported by logical and rigorous analysis
Strong client facing skills
An interest in ESG engagement, China and wider emerging markets
Mandarin speaker a distinct advantage
To hear more about this exciting opportunity, please contact Alex Brown on 020 7848 8878 or email http://alex@meredithbrown.com
Please note: that due to the high volume of applicants responding to our adverts we are regrettably not able to feed back on all applications; only successful candidates will be contacted.