Director, Investment

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About the Role

This position is responsible for key processes within AIAS investment function, including the company wide Strategic Asset Allocation (“SAA”) processes, alpha generation Tactical Asset Allocation (“TAA”) calls, investment solutions of our insurance products focusing on wealth generation and accumulation to drive business growth and overall governance to ensure the robustness of our investment function and activities. Specifically, this role focuses on providing investment strategies and investment leadership in insurance product development for all products.

Additionally, this role is responsible for the oversight of all (internal and external) asset managers, including the managing of overall relationship with AIA Investment Management (“AIA IM”) to ensure AIA Singapore and AIA Brunei investment requirements are met, and ensuring the execution of key investment strategies to maximize risk adjusted returns for AIA Singapore investment portfolios.

This role is also responsible for all communications and assessment of general account investment performances and insights to internal stakeholders as well as agency/partnership distribution channels and regulators.

This role is classified as Material Risk Personnel (MRP) under the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) guidelines.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Lead the end-to-end development of investment strategy and solutioning for all Par and Non Par products, focusing on optimal solutions for HNW products such as Indexed Universal Life (‘IUL”), Universal Life (“UL”) and Platinum series products.
- Responsible for maximizing investment performances for all asset classes and generating new ideas and new investment strategies to enhance our investment performances to improve the competitiveness of our Par Funds and Non Par Funds.
- In charge of key investment processes and activities such as annual strategic planning exercise, yearly remittance optimization, overall investment governance framework update and implementation, investment performance monitoring and reporting and regulatory reporting as well company wide SAA and TAA process for our balance sheet investment.
- Responsible for all SAA process with ALCO to optimize our investment strategies to support the existing insurance products on our balance sheet and maximise our competitiveness of investment solutions for new product development.
- Responsible for periodic TAA process to facilitate CIO in making calls on different asset classes based on macro market outlook and market volatilities to generate alpha to further boost our investment performances while managing downside risks.
- Lead the implementation of Group Investment wide investment initiatives and projects to future proof AIAS CIO Target Operating Model (“TOM”).
- Lead the overall implementation, updates, and enhancement of AIAS’ Investment Governance Framework, in collaboration with asset managers, Risk and Compliance and Internal Audit.
- Lead the relationship with all fund managers such as AIA IM and all external fund managers to ensure investment requirements are met, investment performances are sustainable, and risk adjusted investment returns are optimized.
- Responsible for developing new asset classes, exploring investment opportunities and provide leadership to drive the built up of the private assets.
- Established a semi-middle office function in AIASG Investment team to perform advanced portfolio analytics for internal monitoring and reporting to EXCO, RCE office and Board of Directors.
- Lead the implementation and operationalization of all AIA Group wide investment infrastructure upgrade such as BlackRock Aladdin, Bloomberg, IBOR, and iLevel, Microsoft BI reporting for AIAS to propel investment management (data analytics and oversight) efficiency.
- Set the investment objectives, strategies and benchmarks for AIAS and AIAB investment portfolios, and to monitor execution of investment mandate adherences to regulatory, as well as internal limits and overall performances.
- Lead the development of investment strategies, and proposes new structures, managers, strategies and instruments for AIAS sub-funds based upon their expected contribu