Emerging Markets Credit Analyst

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Emerging Markets Investing at Thrivent:

• Manage over $1 billion in emerging-markets debt as a key part of Thrivent’s multi-sector fixed income strategy. Focus on sovereign and quasi sovereign issuers.
• Benchmarked against larger, more liquid bond issuers in Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Hard Currency Aggregate Index.
• Combined bottom-up and top-down approach with commitment to fundamental fixed-income research.
• US$ portfolio with emphasis on sovereign and quasi-sovereign issuers with some selective exposure to EM private corporate issuers.   

Job Description        

Emerging Markets Debt Analyst Role Highlights:

• Assist Portfolio Manager as a core member of the emerging markets investment team, generating and identifying investment opportunities in U.S. dollar denominated sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt.
• Responsible for in-depth, independent credit analysis for countries within assigned geographic coverage.
• Monitor macroeconomic and political developments in emerging-market economies utilizing independent news and data sources.
• Develop relative value opinions and generate investment recommendations within assigned coverage.
• Support broader fixed-income teams with country or regional economic and political updates.
• Maintain existing and develop new models or databases to help identify value in emerging-markets debt.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant major required plus relevant work experience.
• CFA and/or MBA preferred.
• Experience performing sovereign credit research preferred.
• Experience analyzing relative value opportunities and making investment recommendations.
• Solid working knowledge of accounting and finance as well as sovereign balance sheets.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills.
• Ability to take a position and disseminate well supported investment views concisely confidently and in a timely manner.
• Proficiency in a relevant foreign language preferred.

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