Associate Fixed Income Research Analyst – Emerging Market Corporate Bonds

Overview

In this Associate Research Analyst role within the Emerging Market Debt team, you will support corporate bond investments by conducting sector and security analysis, integrating trends, and developing data tools to improve the investment process. You’ll collaborate with EM sovereign analysts and other fixed income teams, engage with issuers, and monitor holdings to inform portfolio decisions. This is a client-centric, collaboration-driven position at a global asset manager with a strong focus on data-informed investing.

Responsibilities

• Perform in-depth sector and security analysis
• Analyze and integrate industry trends into actionable recommendations, gathering relevant data
• Identify and develop data management tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness of investment process
• Contribute to team discussions focused on investment performance and process
• Collaborate with EM sovereign analysts to frame corporate recommendations in country context
• Contribute to larger firm conversations about investments with other fixed income and asset classes
• Interact with issuers and dealers, attending meetings and conferences as needed
• Appropriately monitor existing holdings for performance
• Help manage independent and group research projects

Key requirements

• BA/BS degree
• strong data and analytical skills
• ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to arrive at conclusions
• communication and relationship-building skills
• Proficient in Excel, Outlook and other Microsoft Office tools

• communication
• relationship building
• teamwork
• Excel
• Outlook
• SQL

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