Developed Fixed Income Rates Strategist

Company Profile

Founded in 1977, GMO is a global investment manager committed to delivering superior long-term investment performance and advice to our clients. We offer investment strategies and solutions where we believe we are positioned to add the greatest value for our investors. These include multi-asset class, public equity, public credit, and liquid alternative offerings.

We manage approximately $68bn for a client base that includes many of the world’s most sophisticated institutions, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Industry-wide, we are well known for our focus on valuation-based investing, willingness to take bold positions when conditions warrant, and candid and academically rigorous thought leadership. Jeremy Grantham, GMO’s Co-Founder and Long-Term Investment Strategist, is renowned as an expert in identifying speculative investment bubbles and also as a leading climate investor and advocate.

GMO is privately owned and employs over 430 people worldwide. We are headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in Europe, Asia and Australia. Our company-wide culture emphasizes commitment to clients, intellectual curiosity, and open debate. We celebrate and respect our differences, while embracing and valuing what each of us brings to work, as we know that diverse teams in an inclusive, caring environment achieve higher engagement and better client results.

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Working with the Developed Fixed Income team, in partnership with Asset Allocation, the Developed Fixed Income Rates Strategist will generate and represent investment ideas in the bond markets. They will work closely with researchers and portfolio managers within the teams and take primary ownership of duration positioning for existing and new portfolios. This role will report to the Head of Developed Fixed Income, but work very closely with Portfolio Managers in Asset Allocation. The role is Boston based with a hybrid schedule (minimum of three days in the office).

Responsibilities

• Generate investment ideas and opinions in the bond markets – specifically focused on the government or risk‑free parts of the market throughout the developed space (US, UK, Japan and Europe).
• Generate creative relative value trade ideas in the interest rate space that could be used in Developed Fixed Income or Asset Allocation portfolios.
• Develop an investment thesis on duration and curve positioning for existing Developed Fixed Income portfolios, as well as any new portfolios.
• Stay up to date on interest rate and currency markets, highlight noteworthy changes to the Fixed Income Quant team, as well as Asset Allocation.
• Leverage a fundamental framework while considering quantitative inputs to develop fundamental views to complement and improve our existing interest rate models.

Research and propose duration positioning within all developed markets (both US and overseas) within Asset Allocation Fixed Income portfolios.

Partner with the Fixed Income Quant Research team to think critically about model output :

Requirements

Compensation

$150,000 - $175,000 a year

This is a reasonable, good faith estimate of the current salary range for this role. GMO’s salary range accounts for a wide array of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets and market demand for skills; level of experience and training; specific qualifications, performance, time in role / company, geographic location, and other business and organizational needs.

In addition, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus award, which award may be determined by individual, team, department and firm performance, and is subject to the terms of GMO’s compensation plan. This position is also benefits eligible. GMO’s comprehensive benefits program includes medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long‑term disability coverage, a 401(k) / profit‑sharing retirement plan, open paid time off, leaves of absences, dependent care resources, tuition reimbursement, charitable gifts matching, flexible spending accounts, and commuter benefits.

Benefits

GMO is committed to the recruitment, employment, and promotion of all candidates equally, regardless of an individual's gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability (except where such disability is a bona fide occupational disqualification) or any other classification protected under federal, state or local law.

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