Who are we?
Sanlam Investments:
We offer a wide range of investment and financial planning solutions to protect and grow your long-term wealth. Sanlam Investments is one of South Africa's largest investment management companies, offering a comprehensive range of client-focused investment solutions to end-investors, intermediaries and larger institutions. Our investment options include passively and actively managed unit trusts, hedge funds and segregated and pooled retirement funds.
Sanlam Investments: Multi Manager:
Access an ideal combination of the best managers to meet your needs. Sanlam Multi Management International (SMMI) researches, identifies, blends and manages portfolios that give you access to the best investment managers with the aim of achieving the best possible return at the appropriate level of risk. We design and blend unique portfolios for clients, based on a deep understanding of their investment aims and a fundamental insight into how they perceive risk.
Who the skilful managers are to meet specific mandates
Portfolio construction techniques to take advantage of this integrated view
The current market and economic environment and how this may change in future
Value for money – our long track record and scale enables us to negotiate favourable fees
What will you do?
Responsibilities will include:
Researching asset managers and their capabilities
Compiling research reports and notes
Ensuring that good collateral is available for use within the investment team and to clients
Working with portfolio managers to improve outcomes from a manager selection perspective
Contribute to the construction of the buy list of managers
Continual update of SMMI manager research tools and databases
What will make you successful in this role?
Experience and qualifications:
Appropriate undergraduate degree
Post graduate degree, CFA, CAIA or other would be advantageous
0 – 5 years' experience
Core Competencies
Cultivates Innovation – Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful
Client focus – building strong client relationships and delivering client centric solutions
Drives results – consistently seizing opportunities and achieving results even under tough circumstances
Collaborates – building partnerships and working collaboratively and inclusively with others to meet shared objectives
Being Resilient – rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations
Behavioural Competencies
Business Insight – applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals
Action Orientated – Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm
Manages Ambiguity – Operating effectively even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
Communicates Effectively – developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
Technical Competencies
Experience in multi manager research
Morningstar and Barra experience (preferred not required)
Excel
Build a successful career with us
We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity. Our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process, driving us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal.
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