Investment Analyst/Associate

Ghobash Trading & Investment (GTI) is actively engaged in multi-asset class investment activities across various geographies. These activities are carried out by a highly qualified and experienced in-house team of investment professionals. The team uses an ‘Asset Allocation Matrix’ to realize risk adjusted returns on invested capital over a long-term period.

The Company’s investment activities include direct investments in startups, taking stakes in established businesses, acquisitions of business enterprises and setting-up new businesses through collaborative joint venture route.

GTI is also active in private financial investments, including private equity and debt, venture capital, real estate, and publicly listed financial investments.

Investment Analyst/Associate (International Listed Investments)

• Strong investment/analytical experience in portfolio management, investment research and/or public fund selection in areas such as equities, ETFs, hedge funds & bonds, fixed income, etc., preferably in an investment firm, or in a wealth management platform, or in a family office or in any similar other buy-side platform.
• Ability to perform in-depth analysis on the quality, credibility and historical performance of managers/issuers.
• Ability to perform risk & sensitivity analysis on total portfolio and on individual investment positions & opportunities as well.
• Good experience of conducting fundamental research on listed investment opportunities and ability to create clear and concise investment memos, highlighting performance, outlook, industry positioning and risks/merits of investment case.
• Due exposure to working with all modern investment tools (MS Office / Bloomberg / Morningstar / Eikon / among others) and adequately tech savvy.

A. Research, Investment & Monitoring

• Provide active support to PM/HOLI (Intl. Listed Investments) in the origination, assessment, evaluation and execution of investment opportunities in the space of international listed investments.
• Stay up to date with market news and developments globally and provide insights and make actionable suggestions for International listed investment portfolio.
• Monitor global financial markets on a continued basis to identify out-performing sectors and geographies and shifting trends to generate investment/divestment and trade ideas.
• Conduct Fundamental Analysis in forming views about buying, selling or holding international listed investment positions.
• Perform due diligence, research and analysis on prospective investment opportunities across the multi-asset class international investment portfolio including viability of the manager, the relevant peer analysis, track record, volatility, quartile ranking against other managers in the space and potential absolute returns and risk adjusted returns.
• Maintain updated coverage on portfolios of DM and EM equity funds, hedge funds, fixed income third party managers, multi-credit and bonds and perform regular monitoring of their performance.
• Analyze financial statements and build financial models and independent valuation to form an in-house view on target investments.
• Attend strategy and briefings meetings/calls with banks, advisors and third-party managers and propose rebalancing recommendations across asset classes and/or geographies to PM/HOLI based on the views of meetings and in alignment with investment mandate and in-house views; and
• Prepare annual strategy notes on the outlook of different asset classes under international listed category and quarterly update the same.

B. Other Ancillary Roles

• Per need, support to Operations Department on MIS reporting issues, Portfolio’s risk profile presentation, Board presentation etc. and on supply of required information on portfolio.
• Support to PM/HOLI in periodic qualitative performance reporting in respect of portfolio including Managers’ performance report.

• Graduation in Business/Commerce/Economics
• MBA and/or CFA Charter holder preferred but not essential. 

Experience:

• Minimum 5 to 6 years of research and investment experience of which at-least 3 to 4 years focusing on the international markets.

Skills & Abilities:

• Good communication skills
• Focused, disciplined, hardworking and proactive with strong ethical and moral standards.
• An avid regional and international micro/macro news reader, with a questioning mindset of and ability to visualize impact of various micro/macro developments on existing and prospective investment universe.