What will you be doing?
As a Research Consultant, you’ll drive research into real-asset strategies and their managers, your key responsibilities will be
1. Research Real Assets investment products offered by investment managers
2. Provide clear, well justified recommendations on the suitability of fund management products for use by our clients
3. Identify emerging trends and market opportunities in the real estate and infrastructure sectors, and assess their potential impact on client portfolios and investment strategies
4. Collaborate closely with client-facing teams, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment of research efforts with overall client aims
5. Maintain strong relationships with industry experts, peers, and other external sources to gather valuable market intelligence and stay ahead of industry trends
6. Produce high-quality research reports, whitepapers, and other thought leadership materials to enhance the firm's market presence and credibility
7. Research approaches and providers of services (eg brokers, platforms) to sell funds on the secondary market. Research other ways for investors to raise liquidity from their illiquid assets
8. Conduct investment manager research and formulate views on investment managers’ capabilities across asset classes to which you’re assigned
9. Attend regular in-person research meetings and internal discussions
10. Identify funds and managers that require researching
11. Lead or contribute to research meetings with managers through the planning of meetings, interviewing, analysis and proposing recommendations
12. Produce high quality written and presentational materials to communicate our views to client-facing consultants and clients
13. Support clients on the appropriate design of Real Assets strategies that meet their own investment objectives
14. Conduct operational due diligence reviews on fund management companies in-line with LCP’s processes
15. Conduct reviews of fund documentation
16. Ensure the recommendations on managers’ products can be justified: data and decisions are well documented; arguments and views are logical and consistent
17. Review work done by others, including both detailed checks and a check for overall reasonableness
Skills and Experience:
18. Several years of Real Assets experience in a manager research or asset management role at an investment consultancy, wealth manager, family office, fund-of-funds or in-house asset-owner
19. Experience and knowledge of Real Assets and investment strategies
20. Experience in assessing environmental and social impacts of real estate and infrastructure investments; and experience of metrics and techniques used
21. Excellent presentation and communication skills including and ability to present persuasively and debate your views
22. Time management and delegation ability, to juggle variable, sometimes high workloads
23. Good Excel, data-processing and project management skills
24. Professional qualification in investment, finance or surveying (Preferrable)
What’s in it for you?
Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:
For you:
25. Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)
26. Professional study support (where applicable)
27. Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks
For your family:
28. Life assurance
29. Income protection
30. Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave
For your health:
31. 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
32. Private medical insurance
33. Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
34. Eye care vouchers
35. Cycle to work scheme
36. Digital GP services
For your wealth:
37. Competitive pension scheme
38. Discretionary bonus scheme
39. High street discounts
40. Season ticket loans
For others:
41. Volunteering opportunities
For the environment:
42. Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)