Artisan Partners seeks a Research Associate for EMsights Capital Group to focus on the politics and macroeconomics of Sub-Saharan African countries within emerging and frontier debt markets, aiming to build expertise and contribute to investment decisions.
Requirements
- 0-3 years of related work experience
- Demonstrated interest in economics, politics, and/or international affairs
- Demonstrated ability to think critically, creatively and independently
- Fluency or proficiency in French or Portuguese, a plus
- Experience living, studying or working in Sub-Saharan Africa, a plus
Responsibilities
- perform research into daily news events, political and macroeconomic policy changes and macroeconomic data releases in a select set of countries
- conduct in-depth analysis into the fundamental political and macroeconomic situations, governance quality, social issues, history, natural resource endowment and environmental concerns of their countries, becoming experts on the region
- Research is conducted via close reading of local news articles
- macroeconomic data analysis
- due diligence meetings with primary sources including, but not limited to, members of governments and representatives from global central banks
- help them understand the issues driving asset prices in financial markets, which includes asset classes such as local and external sovereign bonds, corporate debt, and FX and interest rate derivatives
- deepen their exposure to the idea generation and investment management processes and interact with various team members to fully explore the various roles required to manage Emerging Markets debt portfolios
Other
- This position will require periodic travel to sub-Saharan Africa and may be required to work evenings and weekends as needed.
- Attendance at regionally focused research conferences and the Annual and Spring IMF meetings may be requested.
- Opportunities for engagement with local policy makers in order to improve transparency or other areas of interest will be available.
- Interest in and willingness to travel
- Strong communication skills, excellent work ethic, and a continuous desire to learn
- Ability and desire to work rigorously in a highly collaborative and team-oriented environment
- Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record
