About this role
The Global Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities team (GFICC) at J.P. Morgan Asset Management is one of the world’s deepest and best-resourced fixed income managers, with expertise across all major fixed income sectors, including niche markets. Every investment decision in our fixed income solutions is underpinned by the proprietary research of a globally integrated team of sector specialists, using a shared research language that combines fundamental, quantitative valuation and technical inputs. The GFICC team manages a broad range of strategies, including broad market, long duration, stable value, intermediate high yield, emerging market debt, short and ultra-short duration, global bonds, structured products, mortgages, and tax-aware strategies.
As a Portfolio Manager on the Customized Bond Portfolio (CBP) team within Global Fixed Income Currency & Commodities (GFICC), you will help manage our municipal bond strategies. CBP manages ~200bn billion in fixed income assets across ~100,000 separately managed accounts. The Municipal Bond Portfolio Management team invests and oversees ~35,000 separately managed accounts with $100bn in AUM, focused on Investment Grade municipal credit on both the active and laddered side, where rigorous credit oversight is integral to the selection process.
Job Responsibilities
- Playing an active role in the investment and portfolio construction decisions for existing and new accounts
- Collaborating with our Credit Research teams to identify market trends, analyze individual credits and assess relative value across securities
- Working with a wide range of teams to improve portfolio management processes and enhance efficiency
- Preparing and presenting market commentary and views, and responding to inquiries from stakeholders
- Meeting with internal and external clients and prospects
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Minimum 5 years of buy side industry portfolio management experience
- Experience using Bloomberg
- Adaptable, innovative, team player, and results-oriented, with an ability to bring proactive solutions to the broader PM team
- Excellent responsiveness and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
- Must possess exceptional communication skills both written and oral and be able to communicate their thoughts to external clients and internal partners
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Separate Managed Account (SMA) and Investortools Perform system experience a huge plus
- Automation: Demonstrated ability to design repeatable reporting pipelines (API/export) using coding language of choice
- Systems fluency: Proficient with portfolio/risk and trading systems (e.g., OMS/EMS, risk, performance/attribution)