Vice President – Asset Management & Research

Vice President – Asset Management & Research

The Vice President – Asset Management & Research is responsible for leading the investment strategy, portfolio construction discipline, and research architecture across the company Financial Group's asset management platform.

The role serves as a central investment leadership function, responsible for integrating research insights, macroeconomic analysis, and portfolio construction frameworks into a coherent investment process that drives superior risk-adjusted returns across all managed portfolios.

The incumbent will provide strategic oversight of multi-asset portfolio management, investment research, asset allocation frameworks, and product innovation, ensuring that investment decisions across the Group are grounded in rigorous analysis, disciplined risk management, and consistent investment philosophy.

The role will also play a critical leadership function in centralizing investment research capabilities and guiding investment thinking across the Company Financial Group, including collaboration with affiliated entities within the company.

This position therefore sits at the intersection of investment strategy, portfolio management, and research leadership, and is critical to the continued growth and institutionalization of the Group's asset management platform.

The Vice President will play a central role in advancing the Group's ambition to build a best-in-class regional asset management platform by:

• Institutionalizing the firm's investment philosophy and portfolio construction discipline
• Strengthening the integration between research insights and portfolio decisions
• Enhancing the firm's multi-asset investment capabilities
• Supporting the development of innovative investment products
• Driving consistent risk-adjusted investment performance across portfolios

• Guide asset allocation decisions across fixed income, equities, alternatives, and multi-asset portfolios, ensuring alignment with investment mandates and market conditions
• Lead the design and implementation of portfolio construction frameworks across the firm's discretionary portfolios and investment funds.
• Ensuring that the asset management business meets its growth, revenue and strategic targets.
• Oversee the performance of investment portfolios, ensuring that returns are competitive on both an absolute and risk-adjusted basis.
• Ensure that all portfolios operate within established investment policy statements, regulatory limits, and internal risk parameters.
• Ensuring compliance of all assigned portfolios with all required investment policy, risk and regulatory limits
• Provide investment leadership in the management of the firm's collective investment schemes, including mutual funds and unit trusts
• Overseeing and supporting business development efforts towards securing new asset management business i.e. client investment proposals, client calls, responses to requests for proposal etc.
• Implementing and maintaining a programme of effective performance measurement, reporting and management for the various portfolios under management.

• Lead the development of the firm's investment research architecture, ensuring that research outputs directly inform portfolio construction and investment decision-making
• Oversee the production of macro, fixed income, equity, and cross-asset research across the Group
• Coordinate research efforts across affiliated entities to ensure consistency in investment views.
• Lead the development and communication of the firm's house investment outlook across local and global markets.
• Ensure the timely production and dissemination of investment strategy reports, market commentary, and portfolio positioning guidance.
• Leading the ideation, construction and communication of the company's investment outlook across local and global markets.
• Promote the use of data analytics, quantitative tools, and emerging technologies to enhance the research process.

• Lead the development of new asset management products and strategies, including unit trusts, mutual funds, discretionary…