About Us
Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.
About The Role
THE ROLE
We are seeking an experienced equity investor to be a key member of our Property team within Global Industry Research (GIR) with responsibility for conducting research and making investment recommendations within the Asia Pacific property sector. The position can be based in Boston, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, or Tokyo.
Our Global Industry Analysts (GIA’s) are the firm’s subject matter experts for their respective sectors. Their job is to generate superior investment returns through fundamental company and sector research and analysis. Setting their own research agendas that is core to their own individual philosophy and process. They are thought leaders for their sectors. Our most successful GIA’s demonstrate a consistent ability to generate differentiated investment insights and effectively guide a broad range of diversified PMs into what they view as the most compelling and differentiated investment ideas across their opportunity set. Our GIA team are also Portfolio Managers themselves. They have the privilege of manage significant client assets in multiple concentrated alpha sleeves as part of our $150 billion research portfolios suite of products in addition to other client solutions.
Our GIA's impact extends far beyond the research they are doing and the assets they are managing. As a subject matter expert, they have the ability to influence a broader range of portfolio managers that manage across a range of investment styles, regions, time horizons, including benchmark-relative, total return and long/short investment strategies. Our investment culture thrives with rich, rigorous and respectful debate of insights, assumptions and thesis across multiple independent perspectives, often with unique client objectives and individual portfolio team processes. Our GIAs are at the core of this debate - igniting and contributing to the debate with the common goals of generating superior investment returns for our clients.
Essential Skills
- Stock Picking Acumen, Money Making Skill and Passion
- Ability to be forward-looking, understand the drivers of a stock and what matters. Demonstrated track record of successful stock recommendations based on a philosophy and process that enables the consistent generation of alpha across the Asia Pacific property sector.
- Comfort with ambiguity and taking risk.
- Possess a highly analytical and discerning mindset with robust risk and valuation framework.
- Creative and differentiated approach to identifying emerging company, sector trends and key inflection points with data agility and ability to build own data sets.
- Intellectual curiosity and differentiated thinking that translate into research insights.
- Communication, Collaboration and Ability to Influence
- Proven ability to develop deep, long-term relationships with company management teams.
- Love to develop strong and trusting relationships through respectful and rigorous debate of action- oriented investment ideas and stocks in a highly interactive environment; willingness to work with others to build on other’s ideas to expand volume of stocks discussed and a willingness to embrace opposing views.
- Ability to influence investment decision making of portfolio managers.
- Speak and write concisely, with conviction and action orientation.
- Growth Mindset
- Relentlessly self-reflective and focused on ‘getting better’ – in their skills and decision-making.
- Desire to learn from and embrace different perspectives.
- Work ethic, grit and intense desire to ‘win’ (against market versus one another)
- Orientation to incorporate new tools, data and technology into research process.
Qualifications
Additional qualifications and characteristics:
- A minimum of 7-10+ years of Asia Pacific property investing experience, ideally with specific expertise investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS), real estate developers, and other real estate related companies with coverage spanning both developed and emerging markets.
- Skill to zero in on identifying key drivers of an industry, company and stock and creativity to think through innovation/long term stock winners.
- Very strong analytical and valuation framework.
- Fiduciary, relentlessly focused on client outcomes with highest personal and professional integrity and ethics.
- Ability to prioritize effectively and independently.
- Global mindset and orientation.
- Long/short experience in addition to long-only is considered an advantage.
- Mandarin or Japanese language skills are considered highly beneficial.
- Strong academic credentials; an MBA or CFA is strongly preferred.
Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That’s ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.
As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at GMWTalentOperations@wellington.com.
Benefits
At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry. We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:
USD 100,000 - 225,000
This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.
Base salary is only one component of Wellington’s total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)
