Portfolio Manager, Multi-asset Class Solutions - Montréal, Canada - Fiera Capital

Fiera Capital

Verified Company

Montréal, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

beBee Recruiter

Description

At Fiera Capital

We invest in creating a culture of purpose that makes our people feel valued, cared for, seen, and heard.

Our approach to employee experience is tailored to your needs and ambitions:

Your Inclusive Experience: We are committed to cultivating an inclusive, safe, and trusting work environment.
Your Growth & Empowerment: We have ambitious growth goals for our firm, which makes us a great place to advance your career.
Your Rewards & Recognition: We deeply value our people and their contributions and that's reflected in our competitive compensation and benefits packages and our collaborative culture.
Your Wellness Your Way: We strive to create a healthy work environment and we offer programs designed to support our employees' wellbeing.

What we are looking for:

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Global Head of Total Portfolio Solutions (TPS), the Portfolio Manager (PM), Multi-Asset Class Solutions will support our ambition to further grow and strengthen our leadership in the Canadian institutional market and act as an efficient capital allocator through our client focus, purpose driven, thought leadership and innovation in financial science.

To effectively serve our clients for years to come, you will work closely with the Fixed Income Solutions, Global Asset Allocation, Trading, Public & Private Markets Portfolio Management and CIO Offices, Regional Distribution, and Investment Analytics teams.

You will be in charge of two to four team members within the Multi-Asset Class Solutions Team.

Your responsibilities:

Lead the construction, implementation and monitoring of client goaloriented portfolios as an Portfolio Manager in the MACS team, in collaboration with other Solutions and Strategy PMs, using our proprietary risk factorbased ALM optimization tool for:
Total portfolio solutions in liability/legislation-aware framework for pension plans or insurers
Balanced mandates
Model portfolios for private wealth investors
Addition of specific asset classes, spanning public and privates' markets
Resolving pinpointed issues such as income generation in a high inflation environment
Meet with clients across Canada, the US and EMEA for finalist presentations and ongoing portfolio monitoring meetings
Liaise and create collaboration opportunities through strong partnership within the Total Portfolio Solutions Group, CIO office, and with asset managers across public and private markets
Contribute to research and development goals including new modelling functionalities, investment analytics, portfolio rebalancing, and evaluation of future investment strategies as we carry on the evolution of our proprietary asset allocation tool
Provide education and support for clientfacing professionals

In a nutshell

Act as a key resource for portfolio construction challenges for all parts of the organization in a fastgrowing team

Must have requirements to be successful in this role:

Strong educational credentials with a quantitative background (financial engineering, actuarial, mathematics)
Advanced degree and/or mix of financial and actuarial credentials (CFA, FSA, CAIA, or equivalent)
Actively maintains engagement with new research and development in asset allocation, finance, economy through formal or informal training activities
Must have worked in the buyside investment industry with direct contribution to portfolio management decision for 10 years
Must have experience building and operating ALM modeling and optimizing portfolio for liabilitymatching
Knowledge, understanding and ability to inform financial modelling of traditional and nontraditional asset classes through macroeconomic risk factors for:
Public markets,
Private markets,
Specialized and overlays: LDI, duration completion, equity, tailrisk and currency,
ESG, climate risk and impact investing
Experience with liabilityaware investing and knowledge of legislation for foundations, insurers and pension plans in Canada (experience in the US will be considered an asset)
Ability to create understanding for audiences of different background and drive decisionmaking through effective presentation of complex portfolio management concepts
Compelling track record of being a key contributor through strategic deployment and competing priorities in a fastpaced environment
Investment savvy and experience implementing portfolios across different investor types
Has thorough understanding of investor objectives, constraints and implementation challenges
Quantitative background with a preference for data and researchbased decision
Proactive team contributor
Integrity and professionalism
Excellent communicator (in French and English)