Investment Allocation Associate – Sovereign fund
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
About the 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.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
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
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Flynn and Chase
Сommodities Portfolio Manager - Hedge Fund
Dubai, UAE
One of the world's leading hedge funds - and among the strongest payers anywhere in the market - is building out its commodities business from Dubai and hiring serious risk-takers at Senior Analyst and Portfolio Manager
Head of Institutional Fundraising - Private Equity
Dubai, UAE
We are seeking a senior fundraising leader to drive institutional capital formation for private equity fund across the GCC and wider MENA region. What you’ll do Own the fundraising strategy and execution for current and
Director - Private Equty
Dubai, UAE
We are partnering with a leading investment platform to appoint a Director within its Private Equity team, This role will focus on sourcing, executing, and managing investments across the GCC and select international mar
Value Creation Partner - Private Equity
Dubai, UAE
We are partnering with a leading investment platform to appoint a Senior Operating Leader to act as a Value Creation Expert across its portfolio. This is a high-impact role focused on working closely with management team
Associate – Strategic Asset Allocator - Public Markets - SWF
Dubai, UAE
On behalf of a leading Dubai-based sovereign investor, we are seeking an Associate to join its Public Markets team. The team operates as a fund allocator, investing principally through passive and active equity and hedge
Value Creation Partner - Private Equity
Dubai, UAE
We are partnering with a leading investment platform to appoint a Senior Operating Leader to act as a Value Creation Expert across its portfolio. This is a high-impact role focused on working closely with management team
Associate – Strategic Asset Allocator - Public Markets - SWF
Dubai, UAE
On behalf of a leading Dubai-based sovereign investor, we are seeking an Associate to join its Public Markets team. The team operates as a fund allocator, investing principally through passive and active equity and hedge
Director - Private Equty
Dubai, UAE
We are partnering with a leading investment platform to appoint a Director within its Private Equity team, This role will focus on sourcing, executing, and managing investments across the GCC and select international mar
Сommodities Portfolio Manager - Hedge Fund
Dubai, UAE
Head of Institutional Fundraising - Private Equity
Dubai, UAE
Director - Private Equty
Dubai, UAE
Value Creation Partner - Private Equity
Dubai, UAE
Associate – Strategic Asset Allocator - Public Markets - SWF
Dubai, UAE
Value Creation Partner - Private Equity
Dubai, UAE
Associate – Strategic Asset Allocator - Public Markets - SWF
Dubai, UAE
Director - Private Equty
Dubai, UAE