Investment Writer

American Equity Investment Life Holding; Phoenix (site) (AK); On-site; USD 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

American Century Investments is seeking an Investment Writer to produce actionable insights that help clients make better investment decisions and strengthen brand recognition. This role works closely with portfolio teams, marketing, sales and editorial to create fund commentaries, website articles, white papers, and presentations for a global audience.

The candidate develops annual content strategy with investment and marketing teams, crafts diverse content across digital and print, ensures

Qualifications

• Three or more years of professional writing experience.
• BA degree in Journalism or English preferred.
• Exceptional writing and data interpretation skills.
• Strong interest in economics, financial markets, and the asset-management industry.
• Motivated self-starter who takes initiative, researches, prioritizes, organizes, and meets deadlines.
• Proficient with Microsoft 365 applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop annual content strategy in partnership with investment, marketing, and sales teams.
• Create diverse content—short-form articles, white papers, and presentations for a global audience.
• Ensure content has a strong call to action relevant to individual investors, financial advisors, and institutional investors.
• Collaborate with editorial to optimize content for search engines.
• Coordinate with compliance to ensure fair and balanced information and disclosures.
• Communicate project status to stakeholders.

Skills

Professional writing

Data interpretation

Interest in economics

Self-starter

Research skills

Deadline oriented

Education

BA in Journalism or English

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

American Century Investments®, founded in 1958, is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships. We serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors with a wide range of investment strategies across various disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs. The firm is privately controlled and independent, allowing us to focus solely on investment management and client needs.

If you are a financial markets enthusiast and a strong communicator, we’re looking for you.

Job Overview

The Investment Writer will produce actionable insights that help our clients make better investment decisions and increase brand recognition. This role works closely with portfolio teams, marketing and sales, and editorial teams to create fund commentaries, website articles, white papers, and presentations for a global audience.

Responsibilities

• Develop annual content strategy in partnership with investment, marketing, and sales teams.
• Create diverse types of content—short‑form digital articles, white papers, and presentations—that can be used throughout the client journey.
• Ensure the content has a strong call to action relevant to the target audience, which includes individual investors, financial advisors, and institutional investors.
• Work with the editorial team to optimize content for search engines.
• Interact with the compliance team to ensure content contains fair and balanced information for making an investment decision and appropriate disclosures.
• Communicate the status of projects to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of professional writing experience.
• BA degree in Journalism or English preferred.
• Exceptional writing and data interpretation skills.
• Strong interest in economics, financial markets, investment concepts, and the asset‑management industry.
• Motivated self‑starter who takes initiative, conducts research, prioritizes, organizes, follows through, and meets deadlines.
• Intermediate to advanced user of Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.

Requirements

• Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
• Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

EEO & ADA Statement

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. We strive to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions. American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.