Description
The Japan Fixed Income team is part of the Global Fixed Income platform and is responsible for delivering investment outcomes across Japanese fixed income and credit markets.
As a senior investor within the Japan Fixed Income platform, you will play a critical role in driving portfolio performance and investment outcomes across Japanese fixed income and credit markets.
Investment Leadership
- Lead portfolio construction and investment decisions across Japanese fixed income and credit markets.
- Generate alpha through security selection, sector allocation, relative value analysis, and macro positioning.
- Develop investment views on credit markets, issuer fundamentals, interest rates and market technicals.
- Manage portfolio risk, performance, and capital allocation in accordance with client objectives and investment guidelines.
Credit Investing
- Maintain deep expertise across Japanese corporate credit markets, particularly high yield bonds, leveraged loans, and bespoke credit.
- Evaluate primary and secondary market opportunities across high yield bonds, leveraged loans, bespoke credit, investment grade credit, and other spread sectors.
- Partner closely with research teams to identify and implement high-conviction investment ideas.
- Contribute to investment discussions across regional and global fixed income platforms.
Client & Platform Leadership
- Represent investment views to institutional clients, consultants, and senior stakeholders.
- Support product development, thought leadership, and franchise growth initiatives.
- Collaborate with portfolio managers, analysts, traders, product strategists, and risk managers across the firm.
- Mentor and develop junior investment professionals and contribute to a high-performance investment culture.
Requirements
- Extensive investment experience, including significant experience focused on Japanese fixed income and credit markets.
- Demonstrated expertise investing across Japanese high yield bonds, leveraged loans, bespoke credit, investment grade credit, and related fixed income sectors.
- Strong understanding of portfolio construction, asset allocation, and how Japanese assets fit within a global investment context.
- Proven track record of portfolio management, alpha generation, and risk management across multiple market cycles.
- Deep understanding of Japanese issuers, credit fundamentals, valuation methodologies, liquidity dynamics, and market structure.
- Strong portfolio construction, risk budgeting, and performance attribution expertise.
- Experience managing institutional client mandates, including pension, insurance, sovereign, intermediary, and wealth-related assets.
- Ability to communicate investment views effectively to sophisticated institutional clients and internal stakeholders.
- Leadership experience within investment organizations, including mentoring and developing investment talent.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in Japanese and English.
- CFA, Master's degree, or equivalent investment qualification preferred.
Preferred Skills
- Strong bottom-up fundamental credit analysis capabilities.
- Ability to combine macroeconomic insights with issuer-level credit selection.
- Experience identifying relative value opportunities across sectors, issuers, and capital structures.
- Strong understanding of trading, liquidity management, and portfolio implementation.
- Familiarity with portfolio analytics, risk systems, and attribution tools.
- Experience contributing to investment committees and strategic asset allocation discussions.
- Working knowledge of institutional portfolio management platforms preferred.
- Ability to leverage artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance investment processes.
Benefits
- Strong retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)