Research Associate - Vice President

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Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Consulting Solutions (ICS) business, a part of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Client Segments, provides consulting services and solutions to institutional investors, including corporations, foundations, endowments, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, insurers, and Taft-Hartley funds. We work directly with Financial Advisors/Consultants and other key partners across the Firm to drive asset growth and scalable, centralized infrastructure, service models and tooling to ensure best in class support for this growing and complex business.

The Fiduciary Consulting Group (FCG), which was formed through the strategic combination of Hyas Group and Cook Street Consulting, is a specialized business that provides bespoke investment consulting and fiduciary solutions to institutional clients throughout the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada. Our clients include corporations, government entities, and non-profit organizations, and we specialize in assisting retirement plan sponsors (defined contribution/defined benefit/nonqualified), 529 plans, endowments, foundations, and trusts.

Our status as a fiduciary is clearly documented in our consulting agreements.

Position Summary The Fiduciary Consulting Group’s research team is responsible for delineating the ICS FCG investment policy and the research which supports that policy in partnership with the Wealth Management Global Investment Office (GIO). This position within the broader research team will be responsible for ongoing investment due diligence, analysis and reporting to institutional clients, client-facing coordination and client project development/management.

Primary Responsibilities:

Provide ongoing investment due diligence, analysis and reporting to institutional clients

Investment manager due diligence and selection

Asset class research

Portfolio construction and asset allocation

Asset/liability modeling

Driving scalable AI deployment and adoption in investment research

Macroeconomic and industry research

Client-facing responsibilities and client project development/management

Assistance with RFP responses and related activities

Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree required

Approximately 5-10 years of previous experience in a similar role within the investment research or consulting industry

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Experience working directly with clients and producing client-facing research or investment deliverables

Experience with Bloomberg, eVestment, and/or Morningstar Direct preferred

Experience with AI- and AI-related integrations

Desire to progress toward the CFA designation (if not already attained)
Desired Skill Set:

Attentive to detail (quality and accuracy of materials)
Team-oriented; able to cooperate across research and other departments to meet deadlines with quality work Independent thinker; able to think critically, process new information quickly, and work autonomously under tight deadlines

Professional and personable; comfortable…