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Your mission and contribution
A well-established investment platform is looking to
strengthen its Hedge Funds team with the addition of a Senior Investment Manager. The role focuses on sourcing, evaluating and managing a diversified
portfolio of hedge fund strategies, with a strong emphasis on alpha generation
across different market regimes.
This position offers significant ownership across the
full investment lifecycle, from idea generation and manager selection to
portfolio construction and ongoing monitoring. The successful candidate will
play a key role in shaping investment views and contributing to the overall
performance of the platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and assess investment
opportunities across a broad range of hedge-fund
managers, with a focus on Global Macro (discretionary and systematic) and
Market Neutral strategies
- Source and evaluate investment managers
through various channels including professional networks, industry events and
data platforms
- Conduct comprehensive investment due
diligence, including analysis of strategy robustness, performance drivers, risk
exposures and scalability
- Assess qualitative aspects such as
investment process, governance, alignment of interests and sustainability of
competitive edge
- Monitor existing investments through
ongoing dialogue with managers, performance analysis and risk assessment
- Contribute to portfolio construction and
optimization, ensuring a balanced and diversified allocation across strategies
and risk factors
- Perform detailed portfolio analytics,
including performance attribution, risk metrics and scenario analysis
- Handle functions related to portfolio
management, such as cash management, cash forecast, transactions, FX hedging
and corporate actions. Ensure compliance of your portfolio with investment
guidelines and restrictions
- Prepare investment recommendations,
reports and presentations for internal governance bodies
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders
and contribute to continuous improvement of investment processes and tools
- Mentor and coach the analysts, elevate
your investment process and help the team to reach excellence. Interact
efficiently with transversal functions
Requirements
- Advanced academic background (e.g.
Master’s degree, PhD, MBA or equivalent); professional certifications such as
CFA are a plus
- 15+ years of experience in hedge fund
investing, both in Origination, Research and Portfolio Management
- Strong expertise and network across a wide
range of hedge fund strategies (e.g. Relative Value, Macro, Event-Driven or
systematic approaches)
- Understanding macro environment,
liquidity cycles and alpha regimes
- Strong analytical rigor and sense of
judgment. Able to analyze a manager’s skills and edges, in an organized way
(oral and written) and to take rational decisions
- Ability to assess integrity,
transparency and alignment of interest of your managers and to evaluate
inconsistency, style drift and managers’ resistance to stress
- Ability to assess people and process and
to build trustworthy relationships with managers
- Ability to have a structured, balanced,
disciplined and dynamic approach to portfolio management and to build a
diversified pool of alpha streams able to withstand various market regimes and
tail risk events
- Proactive and driven, with the ability
to bring energy, initiative and momentum within a collaborative team
environment
Benefits
You will
thrive in this organization if you have
- Ability to challenge ideas
constructively and contribute to a dynamic investment debate
- Team-oriented spirit while maintaining a
high level of ownership and accountability
- Strong communication and interpersonal
skills, able to build credibility with both internal stakeholders and external
managers
What’s on offer
- The
opportunity to join an established and prestigious company contributing to its
continuous growth and development
- Great work
environment