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Strategy Associate

Employer
Legal & General Investment Management America
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Salary
Commensurate with experience
Closing date
Feb 5, 2022

Job Details

Overview

This role will predominately focus on supporting our LDI business through investment strategy design, thought leadership, ad-hoc analysis and client/prospect engagement.   

Responsibilities

Investment Strategy:

  • Maintain a detailed understanding of the LDI portfolios, including rationale for positioning, macro views, and drivers of performance
  • Develop prospect/client strategies to ensure they are optimized for prospect/client-specific investment objectives and constraints
  • Develop and maintain broad knowledge of current investment market, economic issues, building block strategies, and LGIMA firm views, and in-depth specialist knowledge in product focus area.
  • Maintain a detailed understanding of market instruments applicable to the assigned prospect/client
  • Oversee development of systems for modeling/monitoring risk where appropriate

External Engagement:

  • Prepare presentations to investment consultants, clients and prospects
  • Oversee periodic update of strategy collateral as well as help develop new material
  • Help support the management, retention and development of external relationships in partnership with Distribution and Client Strategy; identify and execute opportunities to expand and enhance strategic client/prospect/consultant partnerships where appropriate
  • Communicate externally on all areas of our partnership, including investment strategy, performance attribution, macroeconomic landscape and L&G and LGIM America firm structure via review meeting
  • Use technical expertise to explain the outcomes of analysis and obtain agreement on appropriate actions with the relevant parties.
  • Work with the prospect/client and LGIM America investment teams to adopt mutually acceptable investment guidelines where applicable
  • Oversee production of specialist reporting as required
  • Respond in timely, comprehensive manner to ad hoc prospect, client, consultant and third party requests related to the investment strategy
  • Work closely with Distribution, Client Strategy and Onboarding teams to establish and implement client mandates where appropriate

Thought Leadership:

  • Partner with Investment teams to produce and publish research/white papers that demonstrate LGIM America’s thought leadership innovation and support our value proposition to the marketplace
  • Produce written market commentary for (monthly, quarterly) dissemination to prospects/clients/consultants as appropriate (function specific)
  • Represent LGIM America at conference events where appropriate
  • Partner with Product group where appropriate to facilitate and support new product development and launch

Culture and Internal Engagement:

  • Maintain and promote client centric solutions-focused culture
  • Work collaboratively and constructively with LGIMA internal groups on a day-to-day basis
  • Promote information sharing and leveraging new ideas and best practices across the firm
  • Development and mentoring of colleagues
  • Offering support and assistance to other colleagues when needed
  • Oversee documentation of meeting notes and follow-up items, incorporating client feedback, in Salesforce
  • Teamwork (own contributions and enhance contribution of others), including product management and contribution to the evolution of LGIMA’s product and solution offerings

Qualifications

  • A strong fixed income background is strongly preferred for this role, with experience in active fixed income, custom LDI strategies and / or derivative markets
  • Broad knowledge covering investment products, the pension industry, corporate finance, and relevant law is also desirable
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Self-starter and team player
  • 3 - 5 years investment management experience
  • Bachelor degree required, MBA and/or CFA preferred

 

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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