Portfolio Manager, Alternative Risk Premia; EG

At Franklin Templeton, we believe success is built through powerful partnerships. As a forward thinking asset manager, we build dynamic relationships with clients, understand their goals, and navigate complex markets together. We leverage cutting edge strategies and deep insights to unlock opportunities for long term wealth creation. Our talented, global teams bring expertise that is both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and supportive culture to our globally diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential, but also to contribute to our clients’s success.

Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions (FTIS) manages approximately $140B in assets and serves as the firm’s multi‑asset solutions platform. As a key access point to Franklin Templeton’s global investment capabilities, FTIS brings together insights from across the organization to develop customized investment solutions and diversified portfolios. The team combines strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, manager research, and risk management expertise to deliver outcome‑oriented investment strategies for clients globally.

We are seeking a Portfolio Manager to lead the research, construction, and day‑to‑day management of our Alternative Risk Premia (ARP) strategies. Alternative risk premia strategies systematically harvest well‑documented return sources such as value, momentum, carry, and defensive/quality, implemented long/short across multiple asset classes including equity indices and single stocks, fixed income, currencies, and commodities. This hands‑on, multi‑asset role blends rigorous quantitative research with practical, real‑money portfolio management.

The successful candidate will own the full lifecycle of the strategy: signal research, portfolio construction and optimization, risk management, trade implementation across cash and derivative instruments, and performance attribution. You will be both an investor and a builder – equally comfortable conducting research, overseeing execution, and maintaining and enhancing the platform that supports the investment process.

• Own the end-to‑end management of the ARP book, including research, portfolio construction, implementation, rebalancing, and risk budgeting across asset classes.
• Research, design, and validate systematic signals and evaluate candidate factors for statistical robustness and economic intuition, with a thoughtful approach to capacity, turnover, overfitting, and live‑versus‑back test tracking.
• Define and monitor the ARP framework to impose strong risk discipline, with specific focus on risk exposure, leverage, liquidity, and stress/scenario analysis.
• Oversee a team of quantitative researchers, and collaborate with other multi‑asset investment teams, traders, solutions portfolio managers, and risk and operations teams to take ideas from research into robust, scalable production.
• Engage with clients and prospects as needed to support marketing efforts, client service, and distribution opportunities.
• Stay current with academic and practitioner research on factor investing, and continuously improve the strategy’s signals, execution, and infrastructure.

• Requires 10+ years of experience in a systematic or quant finance role, with 5+ years managing ARP portfolios.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline: mathematics, statistics, physics, financial engineering, computer science, economics, or a related field. Advanced degree and/or professional certification (CFA, CQF, FRM) preferred.
• Experience working with python and AI coding tools in a professional investment setting, e.g. conducting research, producing analytics, and automating reporting.
• Hands‑on experience trading derivatives, with practical fluency in instruments such as equity futures and swaps, interest rate futures and swaps/swaptions, FX forwards, total return swaps, and commodity futures – including risk, margin, financing, and execution characteristics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex strategies and results to both…