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Associate Investment Manager

Fidelity

Fidelity

Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Jan 31, 2025

Job Description:

The Department

With over one Trillion of dollars in assets under management in a blend of Fidelity and third-party investment vehicles, Fidelity’s Strategic Advisers, LLC is a leading provider of asset allocation solutions for retail, institutional, and high net worth clients. The range of investment solutions include managed accounts, financial planning frameworks and custom solutions.

Strategic Advisers is a registered investment adviser and Fidelity Investments Company and serves as the investment manager to all Fidelity managed accounts offered by Fidelity’s Portfolio Advisory Services and through Fidelity’s Wealth Management Advisory Services. We construct and manage asset allocation portfolios for over 3.5 million customer accounts.

The Portfolio Engineering (PE) function within SAI is responsible for the management, customization, and execution of individual client portfolios. Within the PE function, the Personalized Wealth Management team is focused on our clients’ most complex investment situations.

The Role

The Associate Investment Manager will join the Personalized Wealth Management team in our Boston office. The role is both to support senior members of the team, as well as provide tax-sensitive, customized management of multi-asset class portfolios for taxable individuals and trusts for Fidelity Wealth Services. You will learn and implement our overlay management strategies with a goal to improve after-tax returns while controlling risk.

Responsibilities

Investment Management Support

  • Provide support to our Sr. Investment Managers prepare for client meetings, including running portfolio analysis and performance attribution reports
  • Provide personalized transition analysis for hypothetical scenarios and recommendations to clients on security transfers for charitable intentions
  • Monitor and update portfolio assignment for Sr. Investment Managers

Portfolio Trading/Management

  • Manage individual client portfolios consistent with Strategic Advisers' investment philosophy and the unique personalization of each client portfolio. Implement investment strategies based on market movements, tax management opportunities, changes in model portfolio or investment choices
  • Develop a deep understanding of internal analyst and portfolio manager research on individual securities, ETFs, mutual funds, portfolio construction, and business cycle positioning to achieve superior pre- and after-tax returns consistent with the SAI’s investment philosophy
  • Monitor and carry out fiduciary responsibilities with a high-level of integrity

Qualifications

Experience/Education

  • Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Computer Science, Data Science, or Engineering. Graduate degree preferred.
  • Three to five years of financial services experience.

Skills and Knowledge

  • Detailed oriented.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work effectively on a collaborative team with a strong spirit of innovation.
  • Understanding of portfolio theory and quantitative portfolio construction techniques in a taxable environment.
  • Technical and programming skills including R, Python, Java, and SQL is a plus.

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