Global Macro Portfolio Manager, External Managers

GIC Private Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

GIC in Singapore seeks an experienced Portfolio Manager focusing on Discretionary Global Macro within the External Managers Department. The role is open to Associate, AVP or VP levels, with the same mandate and ownership scope, located in Singapore.

You will build and run a portfolio of discretionary global macro exposures, form views, size positions, and engage with leading macro managers on a global scale.

Qualifications

• Commercial instinct: you think in terms of expected return, risk taken and capital at stake.
• Conviction under uncertainty; you form independent views, articulate them crisply in writing and in the room, and hold or revise them for the right reasons.
• Quantitative fluency: strong financial modelling applied to real portfolio problems.
• Credibility with sophisticated counterparties; you can hold a substantive conversation with senior investment leaders at the world's leading managers.
• Collaborative ambition; comfortable building relationships internally and externally, and a strong team player in a small, high-trust team.

Responsibilities

• Form independent macro views and translate them into portfolio positioning, manager selection, sizing, and risk allocation across the book
• Lead the thinking on correlation, factor exposure, capacity, liquidity and drawdown management at the portfolio level, and push for innovation in how the portfolio is built
• Originate opportunities, run qualitative and quantitative diligence end-to-end, and build the commercial case for investment
• Design and negotiate bespoke mandates, fee structures, liquidity terms, risk parameters and co-investment or platform structures; shaping how the exposure is expressed, not just whether to buy it
• Continuously re-underwrite the thesis, act decisively when it breaks, and make timely add, trim, or exit recommendations
• Take your recommendations to the Investment Committee and defend them
• Surface differentiated insight to the team and to GIC at large

Skills

Rates, FX, or cross-asset Fixed Income

Job description

GIC in Singapore seeks an experienced Portfolio Manager focusing on Discretionary Global Macro within the External Managers Department. The role is open to Associate, AVP or VP levels, with the same mandate and ownership scope, located in Singapore.

You will build and run a portfolio of discretionary global macro exposures, form views, size positions, and engage with leading macro managers on a global scale.