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Fixed Income Asia Institutional Portfolio Manager
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MFS Investment Management
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Fixed Income Asia Institutional Portfolio Manager
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MFS Investment Management
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THE ROLE
The Fixed Income Institutional Portfolio Manager (IPM) is an integral member of the MFS Fixed Income Investment organization. The role is a member of and represents portfolio teams in direct engagements with clients, prospects, consultants & gatekeepers, and other marketplace stakeholders across Asia and Australia/New Zealand, providing transparency of investment philosophy, process and portfolio strategy. This role will be principally focused on Global fixed income strategies. The IPM also serves as an investment leader for internal MFS stakeholders to shape investment narratives, share market insights, communicate portfolio strategy, and serve as a subject matter expert in assisting the execution of strategic initiatives. The IPM delivers marketplace insights to investment teams and contributes to ongoing enhancement of investment process and overall alignment to client objectives and expectations. This position is located in MFS’ Singapore investment office and will report to the MFS Head of Institutional Fixed Income.
What You Will Do
Integrate into portfolio management teams with a strong level of credibility and respect
Serve as the voice of the client within investment teams and across the Fixed Income Investment organization, ensuring team awareness of client objectives, sharing client feedback, and promoting alignment to highest quality investment standards
Deliver broad marketplace insights into the Fixed Income Investment organization, including relevant trends, important developments, and competitive insights and positioning
Serve as the primary external and internal cross-organization representative of respective investment teams, providing depth and clarity on investment philosophy, process, portfolio strategy, and overall asset class insights
Contribute investment insights and viewpoints as part of investment team strategy discussions
Lead investment team preparation for optimizing client engagements
Develop and support clear investment value proposition for respective strategies and partner across organization to ensure consistent understanding and marketplace delivery
Partner with Product and RFP teams to develop and support oversight of investment collateral and to contribute to facilitating client deliverables
Collaborate across distribution teams to catalyze and promote strategic initiatives, contribute to business planning and support overall organization-wide priorities
Partner with investment and distribution teams to guide development of new investment strategies and capabilities
Contribute to the development of thought leadership on important market and strategy-level topics
Support a unified, team-oriented IPM organization focused on the development, execution, and sharing of best practices
What We Are Looking For
Ideally 7+ years of experience communicating, collaborating, and developing credibility with sophisticated institutional asset owners, consultants and gatekeepers
Robust capability to deliver in-depth transparency for investment process, strategy viewpoints & portfolio positioning, with a refined ability to contextualize strategy-level perspectives within a global macroeconomic framework
Broad knowledge of global and regional fixed income markets, global macroeconomic environments, and important institutional investment management trends
Strong written, verbal, and client-facing investment communication skills, with the capability to effectively tailor engagements to constituencies spanning a range of investment knowledge and experience
Demonstrated history of proactively and effectively engaging with organizational stakeholders to develop collaborative partnerships and contribute to successfully executing strategic priorities
Desire and capability to travel extensively throughout Asia and Australia/New Zealand as well as to other MFS investment offices in London and Boston
Local Asia region language skills positively viewed
At MFS, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply - you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.
What We Offer
At MFS, we view our employees as family — and like you, we want our family happy and healthy. That's why we provide competitive benefits programs and family-friendly policies which support the work-life balance needs of our employees.
MFS is a
hybrid work environment
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Seniority level Mid-Senior level
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Employment type Full-time
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