
Portfolio Manager, Derivatives (AIA Investment Management)
- Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supporting Senior Portfolio Managers in:
▫ Managing cross-asset derivatives portfolios outsourced by AIA Insurance Business Units to AIA IM, blending a proper perspective on financial and derivatives markets and an effective and disciplined risk management approach,
▫ Managing proactively collateral requirements (anticipating the needs, managing collateral pools, executing collateral transformation trades),
▫ Designing, modelling, structuring and advising on derivatives-based strategies and solutions for Group functions and AIA BUs.
- Developing front-office derivatives analytics and quantitative tools.
- Manage directly or assist the lead portfolio manager on linear and non-linear derivatives portfolios, across asset classes, in line with portfolio mandates benchmarks and key risk metrics, following a rigorous investment process based on a deep understanding of macro and markets environments, and a disciplined risk management approach.
- In particular, the incumbent will manage efficiently cash and collateral resources ancillary to derivatives portfolios: assess adequacy of collateral pools with internal and external requirements, optimize collateral portfolios and perform collateral transformation to ensure compliance and economic efficiency of the activity.
- Support the development of the Derivatives and collateral infrastructure, in particular derivatives analytics, portfolio management tools and systematic investment strategies analytics,
- Support the rollout and setup of new Enterprise-wide Investment and Derivatives Management systems.
- Provide expert advice to AIA BUs and Group functions to design and optimize their derivatives strategies, leveraging on a deep understanding of relative economic value, liquidity, and geographical nuances between different derivatives instruments.
- Help stakeholders to define, model and quantify the objectives of such derivative strategies and suggest and similarly quantify alternatives for decision makers on such trades.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience of structuring and managing linear and non-linear Derivatives portfolios (cross-asset preferred).
- Excellent technical expertise in all aspects of derivatives (eg. markets and models), ideally combined with an experience in developing Derivatives analytics with Blackrock Aladdin, Numerix and Python.
- Experience in collateral management and optimization, funding markets (repo, securities lending) and Fixed Income portfolio management would be considered favorably.
- Knowledge in investment-linked insurance products, ALM and LDI strategies, and actuarial sciences knowledge a plus but non-essential.
- Good interpersonal skills, good team player ; intellectually curious, details oriented, analytical thinker, proactive and delivery focused.
- Financial Engineering background preferred. CFMAS module 3 preferred but nonessential.