Job purpose:
- The portfolio manager will join an experienced and dynamic team that builds and manages exchange traded funds (ETF), mutual funds and institutional mandates
- The role will focus on fixed income ETFs and will be responsible for analysis and management of both indexed and non-indexed ETFs, mutual funds, and institutional strategies, across Canadian and international mandates
- The portfolio manager’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, trading and execution, regular economic commentaries, corporate actions, rebalances, idea generation and product engineering, and interacting with market participants/liquidity
- In addition to portfolio management responsibilities, the successful candidate will also contribute to client focused commentary, performance and attribution analysis, as well as taking part in client presentations, to support the overall ETF product offering within BMO GAM.
Your Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the day to day management of a defined set of fixed income ETFs
- Ensure each ETF tracks their respective index within allocated tolerance
- Monitor corporate actions and decide on best course of action
- Build a trading strategy for any fund rebalances and portfolio transitions to minimize market impact and tracking
- Currency Hedging – Support the team during monthly hedge roll adjustments
- Responsible for trading multiple asset classes (fixed income, preferred shares and derivatives)
- Serve as a research aid in the idea generation process to help develop and build in-house strategies
- Key point person for building economic analysis for new funds, as well, creating sales support materials
- Aid in communicating each investment strategy to sales team and clients
- Aid in the analysis of performance and investment decisions to defend to senior investment committee
- Work with institutional sales team to leverage the capabilities within the ETF team
- Aid the portfolio management team in building “one stop” solutions for our clients, by using the most efficient products, whether ETF, index funds or derivative based
- Provide input and develop rational for new product launches. Working with PM team or index provider in the designing or engineering of new products
- Assist in providing analysis and building presentations for client meetings and sales presentations with the institutional sales team
- Maintain a high level of knowledge of the Canadian and international fixed income markets
- Provide economic analysis and commentary to the portfolio management and sales teams
- Provide economic analysis on new product launches
- Review and help improve index methodologies by working with index providers
- Write commentaries and regulatory disclosure documentation
- Facilitate fixed income trading across multiple fixed income products i.e. Government, investment grade, high yield and derivative instruments
- Work with other portfolio managers to generate and execute fixed income trade lists
- Provide detailed post trade analysis on all fixed income trades
- Conduct liquidity analysis on several segments of the fixed income market (CAN,US, Corporate, Government, Provincial)
- Continuously improving the operational efficiencies of the PM/Trading process
- Maintain the highest fiduciary duty when representing and acting in our clients’ interests
- Eliminate, where possible, manual processes
- Automate and build systems that reduce operational risk
- Ensure controls are in place and are being followed
- Join a culture that continuously looks to mitigate operational risk.
Skills/Qualifications:
- University graduate in Commerce, Business, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics and may have a post graduate degree
- CFA Charterholder or working toward CFA Charter
- A minimum 5 years of direct investment experience, buy side or sell side
- Experience in macroeconomic research and a familiarity with writing regular commentaries and strategy reports
- Possess strong written and presentations skills
- Possess strong excel skills (VBA and/or other coding skills are not required but seen as an asset).
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