Lead Investment Analyst

Description

The Group: Morningstar, Inc.’s mission is to empower investor success. We were founded on the simple idea that when people have good investment information, they make better choices that lead to better outcomes. The Investment Management group consists of our Managed Portfolios and Workplace solutions teams. Within Morningstar Investment Management, LLC, the Workplace group offers a range of retirement solutions, including managed accounts, custom models, and advice service by acting in a fiduciary capacity or as an independent financial expert, as defined by ERISA: IFE, 3(28), or 3(21) capacity. The flagship product is our Morningstar Retirement Manager which provide personalized advice on how much to save for retirement, a saving strategy, and builds portfolios for individual investors. The Workplace team consists of the investment management team, the research team, the Advice Engines team, the operations team, and the Workplace client services team. The goal of these teams is to work together to build and maintain well-diversified fund portfolios while helping our clients to understand our portfolio construction process.

The Role:
Morningstar is seekng a Senior Investment Analyst to join our team of investment professionals. This person will help construct, refine, implement, and oversee multi-strategy portfolios for large institutional clients. In this role, you will lead projects, support and partner with other team members, and be responsible for analysing investment data to determine solutions for our clients. You will work closely with other members of the Investment Management team including client relationship managers, operations/technology, developers, senior management, and other team members around the world. The position is based in our Mumbai office, but will require weekly calls with our international teams as well as occasional international travel.

Key Responsibilities:
• Mentor/guide/train other investment analysts through meetings, emails and weekly calls.
• Conduct in-depth asset allocation analysis, portfolio construction analysis, and investment vehicle analysis on retirement products using key modern portfolio theory statistics and techniques.
• Manage client relationships, communicate project goals and status updates externally, and act as key investment resource on an ongoing basis.
• Identify and work with technology, data groups and clients to resolve investment data issues.
• Lead and participate in testing projects to enhance current methodologies and processes within the server-based portfolio construction software
• Participate in research efforts on the retirement industry with a focus on advice and managed accounts products and services.
• Assess the theoretical and practical implications of our methodology as you strive to innovate and improve our products and services.

Requirements:
• A bachelor's degree in finance, business or economics
• An MBA and/or Chartered Financial Analyst® designation is preferred
• 3 to 7 years of relevant investment experience, preferably in the financial services industry.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Comfort working in a quantitative environment.
• Creativity, the desire to innovate, and investing passion.
• Experience with or a desire to learn Morningstar software.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

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