Description
Plan and manage client portfolios by setting strategy, selecting investments, and overseeing risk and performance to meet objectives while ensuring compliance.
- • Prepare for and respond to regulatory and client due‑diligence inquiries.
- • Ensure trade and portfolio reporting complies with regulations and firm policies.
- • Hire, mentor, or evaluate analysts and trading staff.
- • Coordinate with operations and accounting to support portfolio processes.
- • Develop or oversee valuation methodologies for portfolio securities.
- • Stay current on markets through research, briefings, and financial media.
- • Review and approve portfolio content in offering and marketing materials for accuracy and compliance.
- • Conduct and evaluate fundamental, quantitative, and macro research to inform decisions.
- • Present portfolio strategy, risks, fees, and performance to clients and stakeholders.
- • Monitor holdings, exposures, and portfolio risk to align with mandate and limits.
- • Track regulatory and tax changes that affect portfolio construction or trading.
- • Meet with clients to understand objectives and communicate strategy and results.
- • Partner with sales and investor relations to support prospective client meetings.
- • Provide input to offering documents and marketing materials for accuracy and positioning.
- • Evaluate new strategies, markets, or products aligned to client needs and firm capabilities.
- • Develop and implement portfolio investment policy, asset allocation, and guidelines.
- • Select securities and direct trade execution with traders.
- • Analyze investment opportunities for fit with strategy, risk, and compliance requirements.
- • Manage portfolios to achieve target returns within risk and liquidity constraints.
- • Construct portfolios by selecting securities and optimizing position sizes.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
