Investment Manager

Role overview

The Investment Manager will be responsible for sourcing, assessing, structuring, and overseeing external investment managers across absolute return and equity-related strategies. The role focuses on improving portfolio resilience, redirecting capital toward higher-alpha opportunities, and supporting active oversight of the asset management platform.

Key responsibilities

• Build the manager pipeline by identifying, sourcing, and reviewing global investment managers across alpha transport, market neutral, equity extension, and hedged equity strategies.
• Maintain productive institutional relationships with consultants, peer organizations, and investment managers.
• Spot diversification opportunities to reduce concentration in single managers.
• Carry out independent investment, operational, and risk due diligence.
• Create and evaluate detailed financial models and performance attribution analyses.
• Judge the durability of a strategy’s alpha, its capacity to scale, and its overall robustness.
• Review portfolio construction, factor exposures, liquidity, and risk controls.
• Prepare investment papers and memoranda for internal approval processes.
• Design and negotiate managed accounts and fund allocation structures.
• Drive execution from approval through funding, working closely with Legal, Operations, and Risk teams.
• Manage capital deployment for ring-fenced allocations, including large allocations such as USD 600m alpha transport and USD 200m mandates.
• Track performance, risk, and alpha generation across the manager roster.
• Review manager reports and fair value estimates, and conduct regular strategy diagnostics.
• Address underperformance through formal engagement plans, and recommend exits, reallocations, or mandate changes when needed.
• Present recommendations to investment committees and prepare recurring performance and attribution reports.
• Ensure documentation is aligned with governance and audit requirements.
• Maintain records of both prospective and rejected investments.
• Guide Investment Analysts and share technical expertise to build team capability.
• Support knowledge development in absolute return and alpha transport strategies.
• Help reduce key-person dependency and strengthen overall team resilience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Postgraduate qualification such as an MBA is preferred.
• CFA or an equivalent professional designation is strongly preferred.
• At least 10 years of institutional investment experience.
• Proven background in manager selection and portfolio construction.
• Hands-on experience with absolute return, alpha transport, market neutral, and equity extension strategies.
• Prior work involving managed accounts and mandate structuring.
• Experience gained in sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, asset managers, or institutional investment consulting firms.
• Strong financial modeling and performance attribution skills.
• Good understanding of portfolio construction and risk-adjusted return analysis.
• Familiarity with hedge fund and alternative strategy structures.

Additional information

This is a full-time on-site position based in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates.

No salary, stipend, application deadline, start date, or vacancy count was specified in the source.