GAA Senior Research Analyst, Head of Inflation and Commodities - 2006132

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: April 24, 2020

Job Description:

Position Description:

Guides and directs team research projects focused on a wide range of innovative inflation or commodity topics. Assists portfolio managers and analysts across Fidelity, and Global Asset Allocation in particular, to understand and interpret global inflation and commodity trends.

Primary Responsibilities:

Understands, examines, and researches the interaction of growth and inflation shocks on inflation resistant multi-asset class portfolios to develop a robust inflation-playbook.

Builds secular views of long-term inflation and commodity trends based on demographics, monetary policy, and fundamental analysis.

Works with active asset allocation investment and research teams to build both strategic and dynamic asset allocation recommendations based on inflation and commodities work.

Develops and manages mock investment portfolios that provide clear asset allocation positioning recommendations for inflation sensitive asset classes.

Initiates timely and relevant ad hoc research pieces highlighting important macro or market developments.

Leverages market-based information and fundamental analysis to inform commodity and inflation views.

Provides systematic inflation, commodity, and energy signals on a monthly basis, and collaborates with others within GAA to ensure that they are incorporated into asset allocation portfolio decisions.

Works with strategic income product portfolio managers to provide explicit fixed income portfolio investment recommendations.

Communicates research findings and investment views through regular meetings, reports, emails, and one-on-one direct exchanges with portfolio managers and analysts.

Builds and maintains strong relationships with equity and fixed income Portfolio Managers and analysts across the organization.

Regularly discusses and presents inflation at internal meetings.

Presents details about research process and investment conclusions to key external stakeholders, including sophisticated institutional clients and investment consultants.

Education and Experience:

PhD (for foreign education equivalent) in Economics, Finance, or a closely related quantitative field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or two (2) years of experience performing econometric programming and modeling to estimate and forecast inflation and commodity and trends.

Or, alternatively, Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Economics, Finance, or a closely related quantitative field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or four (4) years of experience performing econometric programming and modeling to estimate and forecast inflation and commodity and trends.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise (DE) performing extraction and complex time series analysis for economic and market data using EViews 9.5; designing macroeconomic screening and portfolio construction processes, using Haver Analytics and Bloomberg; and generating visual insights, using software tools (Microsoft Excel and EViews 9.5).

DE building fundamental econometric inflation component models, using EViews 9.5 and commodity forecasting models based on the analysis of macroeconomic factors -- interest rate environment, business cycle conditions, foreign demand, and detailed movements in drivers of oil and inflation markets.

DE developing econometric models to quantify the impact of macro events on movements in inflation, including housing, and motor vehicle demand, currency movements and import prices, property markets, and economic policy shifts.

DE performing econometric programming and modeling to inform fundamental equity research, including asset allocation -- tactical, business cycle, and secular asset allocations.

For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com/ and search for job number: 2006132.

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