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Senior Solutions Strategist, DC

Employer
Legal & General Investment Management America
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Salary
Commensurate with experience
Closing date
Aug 6, 2021

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Job Function
Institutional Sales, Multimanager Strategies
Industry Sector
Asset Management
Certifications
Passed CFA Level I
Employment Type
Full Time

Job Details

Overview

The Senior Solutions Strategist will be actively involved in the design, creation and build out of Defined Contribution (DC) investment solutions with a heavy focus on Retirement Income/ Decumulation and Fixed Income strategies

Responsibilities

  • Play a central role in the design, construction and execution of DC Investment solutions – specific but not exclusive to Retirement Income
  • Ensure that investment strategies are efficient from an investment, accounting and regulatory standpoint – easy to understand and to explain to the DC market place.
  • Ensure that DC investment solutions are market ready - are appropriate “fits” for both current DC and future DC market conditions
  • Prepare and deliver DC investment presentations to investment consultants, aggregators, advisors, clients, and prospects.
  • Participate in industry conferences and affiliations as well as pertinent industry surveys, studies and research projects where appropriate to enhance LGIMA’s DC brand and market presence
  • Provide insight, ideas and input to relevant LGIMA thought leadership and white paper creation that conveys our best think in the decumulation phase of DC
  • Understand DC investment solution competitive landscape and understand how we differentiate ourselves

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 10+ years of direct experience in the DC market, most favorably from consulting or asset management
  • Strong investment product development/ product design and architecture experience
  • Strong DC investment product knowledge desired specifically to QDIA’s such as:
  • Target Date Funds, Managed Accounts
  • Strong Retirement Income/ Decumulation Solutions in DC desired if possible
  • Strong knowledge of DC investment classes coincident with delivery vehicles in: ’40 Act, CIT and institutional separate account
  • CFA desired
  • Understand how LGIMA’s products and services can be shaped and developed to meet current and future market demands
  • Stay current on all DC Legislative and regulatory changes and understand their respective impacts on our DC investment business
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills
  • Superior analytical skills
  • Team oriented – Works well with peers and colleagues in a mutually respectful and supportive manner to build trust relationships where ideas can be exchanged and contested constructively.
  • Flexible, Nimble and adaptable – very comfortable working within a start-up environment
  • Developed client facing skills – able to accompany sales and distribution colleagues and articulate investment philosophy, process and capabilities in a clear and compelling manner that would resonate positively with would-be buyers
  • Adherence to the L&G Group Behaviors of collaborative, straightforward, and purposeful

 

As an EOE employer, Legal & General Investment Management America will extend equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, military status, and/or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. (2020)

Company

Legal & General Investment Management America, Inc. (LGIMA) was founded in 2006 and specializes in fixed income, liability driven investment (LDI) solutions and index capabilities for the US institutional market.* We offer a range of strategies to help our clients manage their investment objectives including investment grade fixed income, which can range from market-based alpha-oriented strategies to those that are designed to be more liability-centric, derivative overlays, and indexed solutions.

Our solutions-focused culture is geared toward customization for our clients. As a firm, LGIMA has professional resources dedicated to insuring that our credit portfolios are structured in a risk-conscious manner, but can still have the ability to produce excess returns over an appropriate, sometimes custom, benchmark. Our index fund management offering extends well beyond the standard market cap weighted indices. We have the capability to manage index funds against various equity indices. 

As of December 31, 2019, LGIMA managed over $219 billion in assets. Our clients include pension plans, foundations & endowments, unions, and public funds.

Company info
Telephone
312-964-3108
Location
71 S. Wacker Drive
Suite 800
Chicago
IL
60606
US

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