Director, Global Macro Stratgy

Description

The opportunity

The Multi Asset Solutions Team (MAST) manages over $171 billion of multi-manager, multi-strategy portfolios distributed across the Institutional, Retail, Retirement and High Net Worth platforms at Manulife.

The Global Macroeconomic Strategy Team is hiring a Global Macro Strategist. Reporting directly to the Global head of Macro Strategy, this person will help develop views on the economic and capital markets environment that will support investment recommendations within multi-asset solutions (MAST) and Manulife Investment Management (MIM).

While the role’s area of focus will be on the Emerging Markets (Asia), key responsibilities will include helping develop global economic forecasts and generating risk scenarios that will be used for asset class return forecasting. More broadly, the person will support the Macro Strategy team and Chief Economist in enhancing economic and policy views and pushing the team’s economic research agenda forward

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of global macroeconomic strategy views that directly impact investment decisions and portfolio performance on a wide array of multi-asset investment products as well as Manulife Investment Management’s multiple business lines.
• Engage with global portfolio management teams on investment themes and ideas; demonstrate interest and development in the integration of macroeconomic strategy into actionable market views.
• Support senior Macro Strategy and MAST members with macroeconomic and market research, the development of economic forecasts, improvement of models and processes, and managing the group’s extensive chart repository.
• Support the firm in client facing, thought leadership, and brand building efforts that would include but are not limited to written pieces, one-on-one and group presentations, and media appearances.

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Our commitment to you

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About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer