This requirement is for hiring a SRA/ RA in the Index team.
Job Description:
Designation: Research Analyst/ Senior Research Analyst - Index
Experience: 3 to 5 years
Domain Experience/ skills: Looking for candidates who either have fixed income domain knowledge or index computation knowledge/ experience. Mutual fund product knowledge is add on
- Index calculation and maintenance
- Index research
- Fixed income domain knowledge
- Knowledge of fixed income mutual funds (or AIF, PMS, Insurance) products
- Knowledge on passive investments
- Knowledge of regulatory guidelines governing mutual funds
- Fixed income market understanding yield levels, key trends, market preference and market structure
- Fluency with bond and index mathematics
- Analytical inclination
- Strong oral, written and presentation skills
Good to Have skills:
- Knowledge of coding languages
Functional Responsibility/Domain Related:
- Index maintenance: Daily index computation, rebalancing, Index criteria review
- New Product development: Launch of innovative replicable indices for index funds/ETFs
- Back-testing of Index strategies
- Tracking competition and other global practices on passive investments
- Establishing process for new index computation and automation of processes
- Ensuring compliance to regulatory and other best practices
- Preparation of ad-hoc analytical reports for the purpose of senior management and/or for external agencies
