Insurance Portfolio Manager

About Columbia Threadneedle Investments

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Job Purpose Statement

The role is to support portfolio management of the firm's strategic insurance assets. This includes management of the buy & maintain annuity portfolio; executing weekly instruction(s), conducting credit stability monitoring, while complying with their regulatory capital and matching adjustment requirements.

Role Responsibilities

1. Insurance Buy and Maintain Portfolio Management

• Managing Sterling Matching Adjustment portfolios
• Managing client requirements including bond eligibility, ESG integration and managing GBP into cross-currency positions (eg, USD, EUR markets)
• Minimising credit rating migration risk, experience of managing portfolios under WARP criteria
• Managing portfolios to optimise for capital budgets and/or cash flow matching constraints
• Knowledge of appropriate derivatives for the efficient management of Insurance Buy & Maintain portfolios
• Knowledge of private placement credit markets useful, but not essential

2. Insurance Active Portfolio Management

• Experience of delivering strong risk adjusted relative returns within client constraints
• Actively managing duration, credit beta, industry and issuer risk within constraints
• Downside risk management

3. Insurance Regulatory Environment & Solutions

• Understanding insurance regulation, Solvency II etc.
• Understanding insurance client capital optimisation models
• Working with Solutions and Insurance client relationship team on structuring and execution of asset allocation solutions

4. Contribution to client presentations

5. Contribution to desk market views

• Market direction, credit strategy documents
• Analyst debate and challenge

Key Capabilities

• Experience managing GBP buy and maintain annuity portfolios, familiarity of bond eligibility and matching adjustment criteria
• Experience of managing portfolios to optimise for capital budgets or cash flow matching constraints
• Knowledge of GBP credits and sectors

NB: the ideal candidate will have approximately 5-7years experience and will be able to demonstrate above requirements in relation to Sterling credit markets. Candidates demonstrating all the above in relation to US Dollar / Euro credit markets will also be considered, but the immediate portfolio management requirement predominantly relates to Sterling Investment Grade markets and a UK client bas

Desired Capabilities

1. Non-organic growth opportunities
Due diligence
Transition / portfolio take-on work
Writing/reviewing appropriate fund mandates / restrictions / benchmarks

2. Contribution to other actively managed strategies across a growing and successful IG desk
Global IG, Euro IG, Sterling IG, Pension CF matching, Multi-Asset Credit, Absolute Return

Other skills
Demonstration of strong client relationship skills
Demonstration of strong team working skills
People management
Business development