Apac Markets Analyst

**Purpose**

Medley Advisors, an EA Group business, is looking for an experienced markets analyst to cover North Asia encompassing Greater China (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) South Korea and Japan. In this role you will be working from either our Tokyo or Singapore offices. Medley Advisors, a division of EA Group, has been a leading macro policy research service for the world’s top hedge funds, asset managers, banks and institutional investors for more than 25 years. Our expertise combines central banking, government finance, trade, and political/geopolitical risk. Medley helps its blue-chip clients anticipate policy decisions and political shocks and to integrate its intelligence into their investment decisions.

**Duties**

You will work in our Singapore or Tokyo office with a core focus on:

- Analyzing developments and formulating guidance on North Asia equity, bond, and FX market
trends, with a core focus on mainland China.
- Collaborating with the APAC macro policy team on thematic research.

Day to day, you will:

- Closely monitor market developments in North Asia especially in China with a focus on those of high interest to global investors.
- Write short, market-oriented, actionable position reports.
- Discuss these issues with a local and global institutional-investor clientele.

**Requirements**:
Typically, your experience will be in financial markets and be able to demonstrate:

- Knowledge and interest in macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, financial and energy markets,
- An ability to write clearly in English and Mandarin and be able to boil down complexity into a forward-looking and tradeable “call”.
- The initiative and enthusiasm to develop a network of market contacts to track fast
- changing concerns,
- The confidence and knowledge to guide clients through policy arguments and political analysis and see their market relevance.

**About us**

Founded in 2012, Energy Aspects is a rapidly growing independent research consultancy. The company is committed to providing indispensable analysis of energy markets to its clients to help guide their investment, trading and research decisions.

We combine a data-rich approach with our extensive network of contacts throughout the oil and gas industry and insight on geopolitics and energy policy to provide best-in-class assessment and analysis of major topics, regions, and trends. We also deliver timely analysis of breaking news with our E-mail Alert service and offer Database services consisting of our proprietary fundamental trade and supply/demand data.

We offer a suite of subscription services spanning our research products which can be tailored to meet our clients’ specific needs.

As a business, we have been hugely successful in selling our subscription services and growing our business. With hundreds of major brands and thousands of subscribers already signed up, our focus is on the continuous development of our portfolio of products and targeting the vast number of untapped users who will value our unique insights.

**Culture & Benefits**

The proud recipient of accreditations from Best Companies, we truly understand the importance of workplace engagement and genuinely value our people. We offer a fast-paced, driven, collaborative and dynamic working culture where you are recognised and rewarded for your contributions to our tremendous growth story.

Our compensation packages include generous commission structures, a company share options scheme, private health insurance, life assurance, income protection, pension contributions, subsidised gym membership and considerable holiday time.

Energy Aspects is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity within its workforce. As an international business we are determined that suitably qualified persons will never receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.