Associate Portfolio Manager (Equity)

Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P.

• $80K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong alignment with Dimensional's investment strategy
  • Finance and financial theory background
  • Experience in asset management or financial institutions
  • Understanding of equity ETFs and mutual funds landscape
  • Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • High attention to detail with project management experience as a plus
  • Effective time-management skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage all aspects of portfolio management including trading and corporate actions
  • Monitor and maintain portfolio characteristics following firm processes
  • Identify buy and sell candidates and collaborate with global trading teams
  • Explain portfolios and investment performance to clients and stakeholders
  • Contribute to thought leadership and investment philosophy development
  • Collaborate with Sales and Client Services teams to meet client investment needs
  • Undertake projects to enhance investment process efficiency

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits packages
  • Educational programs for professional development
  • Celebrations of company culture and history
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Portfolio Management is responsible for the daily oversight and management of Dimensional's portfolios and implements our investment philosophy across all our investment solutions. Portfolio Management interacts and collaborates closely with several departments including Trading, Research, Technology, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and the Global Client Group to ensure a superior investment experience for our clients.

The Portfolio Management team ensures that Dimensional's portfolios deliver consistent and efficient exposure to the dimensions of higher expected returns, as identified by the greatest minds in modern financial economics. Our portfolio managers achieve this exposure by implementing a daily and systematic portfolio management process. In addition to overseeing and enhancing this process, portfolio managers also interact with current and prospective clients.

As an Associate Portfolio Manager, you will cover all aspects of managing portfolios, and will also be responsible for discussing our investment thesis and portfolios to a wide range of clients.

Responsibilities
  • Responsible for all aspects of managing portfolios. This will include tasks such as trading foreign currency, issuing buy and sell instructions, electing on corporate actions, and evaluating the eligibility of securities.
  • Monitor portfolio characteristics and maintain portfolio structure following the process-driven approach of the firm.
  • Identify buy and sell candidates in a systematic manner and partner with trading teams globally to implement those decisions.
  • Provide verbal and written explanations of portfolios, performance, process, and other investment related issues internally and to both existing and prospective clients.
  • Participate in the ongoing development of thought leadership by challenging current thinking and searching out new opportunities to deploy the investment philosophy.
  • Work with the Sales, Marketing, Consultant and Client Services teams to effectively respond to clients' investment needs.
  • Project work focused on making the investment process as efficient as possible and improving where and how we can invest.


Requirements
  • Strong philosophical alignment with Dimensional's investment strategy
  • Background in finance and financial theory
  • Experience in financial markets via asset management, broker-dealers, or financial institutions
  • Understanding of competitive landscape in equity ETFs and mutual funds
  • Excellent quantitative problem-solving and analytic skills
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • High attention to detail, project management experience a plus
  • Strong time-management skills


This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.

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