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Investment Allocation Associate – Public Markets - Institutional Investment Platform

Flynn and ChaseDubai, UAE4 weeks agoEntryfulltime
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About This Role

Overview:

We are working with a leading institutional investor to find a talented Associate to join their Dubai-based investment team. This is a high-calibre platform managing multi-billion dollar public markets portfolios across global equities, fixed income, commodities, and liquid alternatives.

This role is ideal for someone with proven SAA/TAA experience and direct exposure to hedge fund manager selection and oversigh who is ready to step into a senior analytical role with real ownership and visibility.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Public Markets, you will be a core contributor across:

  • Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) — building capital market assumptions, running optimisation and scenario studies, and preparing governance-ready allocation recommendations for Investment Committee and Board
  • Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) & Macro Research — developing TAA signals across equities, rates, credit, FX and commodities; back-testing strategies and implementing views via ETFs, derivatives, and overlays
  • Hedge Funds & Liquid Alternatives — evaluating and overseeing external managers including hedge funds (long/short, macro, risk premia); full manager lifecycle from due diligence through ongoing monitoring
  • Portfolio Construction & Risk Analytics — multi-asset optimisation, factor decomposition, risk budgeting, ex-ante/ex-post attribution
  • Governance & Reporting — producing investment analytics packs, dashboards, and presentations for senior stakeholders

Requirments:

  • 2–4 years in public markets investing at a sovereign wealth fund, family office, or asset manager
  • Hands-on SAA and TAA experience — capital market assumptions, optimisation, scenario analysis, macro-to-portfolio translation
  • Direct hedge fund exposure — manager selection, due diligence, performance monitoring
  • Risk systems fluency: Barra, Axioma, RiskMetrics, Bloomberg, Datastream
  • Programming skills: Python or R, SQL, Excel/VBA
  • CFA or equivalent advanced qualification
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