Jpy Rates Portfolio Manager/associate Portfolio

**Company Overview**:
Caxton Associates, founded in 1983, is a global trading and investment firm with offices in London, New York, Monaco, Singapore, and Dubai. Caxton Associates’ primary business is to manage client and proprietary capital through multiple liquid global hedge fund disciplines, including discretionary macro, systematic macro, emerging markets macro, systematic trading, equity long-short, and event-driven strategies. Assets are managed via a broad mandate to trade in a variety of global markets and instruments with a focus on alpha generation for our clients.

**Requirements**:
**The Role**:
Caxton Associates is seeking an experienced portfolio manager and/or trader specializing in Japanese interest rate markets. In this pivotal role, you will be entrusted with managing a significant capital allocation and overseeing rigorous risk management across all active positions.

In our organization, we place a high value on collaboration, promoting regular and ongoing discussions about global macroeconomic trends, geopolitical developments, and the evolution of financial markets. Professionals who can extract key insights from their investment universe to inform and shape the broader team's perspective and leverage this collective knowledge to generate alpha within their mandate will find this is the perfect platform for their talents.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Independently manage a significant capital allocation by creating, executing, and monitoring strategies focused on alpha generation in Japanese rate markets.
- Construct portfolios that capitalize on dislocations across global interest rate curves, optimizing the usage of balance sheet and other scarce resources, and tactically express views on duration and curves.
- Conduct thorough analysis of JPY interest rates, including pricing and valuation factors such as carry, roll, and convexity, forecasting of issuance schedules and market participants' expectations, and screening of the investment universe to identify optimal expressions of investment theses.
- Implement stringent risk management, actively assessing the merits of all positions and investment theses.
- Collaborate effectively within a global team environment, learning from and adding value to collective insights and expertise.
- Provide expertise and insight into Japanese markets including fundamental, tactical, and macro views, engaging with local financial institutions to build and maintain relationships with market participants to ensure timely and accurate insights into market trends and shifts.
- Ensure strict compliance with all industry rules, regulations, and internal company policies.

**Requirements**:

- Proven track record in investing in Japanese markets, demonstrated by robust investment acumen and a Sharpe Ratio greater than 1.5.
- Proficiency in quantitative techniques for screening and pricing the investment universe, optimizing execution, and structuring of relative value (RV) strategies.
- Demonstrated expertise in the fixed income and interest rate asset universe, including the relationships between products within the asset class, basis risks across the complex, repo and funding markets, key end users in each segment, central bank policy, issuance processes, and supply-demand drivers.
- Humility and the capacity to thrive in a highly collaborative global team, with a strong desire to learn from and alongside other investors.
- Unwavering commitment to the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
- Deep expertise in Japanese local markets, fluency in Japanese required to be able to extrapolate local market insights into global trends.

**Application Instructions**:
To apply, please submit your CV, a detailed account of your investment track record (including evidence of a Sharpe Ratio greater than 1.5), and a comprehensive outline of your proposed investment strategy and process. If you're an experienced portfolio manager with a passion for collaboration and a keen interest in financial markets, we'd love to connect with you.