Company Description
About Us:
As an independent, award-winning and B Corp-Certified investment consultancy, we provide a full range of outcome-oriented advice, research and technology to some of the largest pension funds, wealth managers and other institutional investors across the UK and Europe.
Since our humble beginnings, we’ve challenged norms and pushed boundaries to deliver on our mission of helping to make 100 million people financially secure – for the benefit of people and planet.
Our team is home to some of the brightest minds in finance who thrive on seeking innovative solutions to our clients’ complex challenges.
We’re proud to now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Gallagher, a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting with a deep commitment to pensions, benefits and investment consulting. Together we create a truly global investment consulting firm with world-class service and the ability to drive outstanding outcomes for our clients. The focus, values and purpose that our clients have come to expect remain unchanged.
Sound like your cup of tea? We’d love for you to consider joining our team!
Job Description
About the role
Our independent Manager Research team is responsible for researching and selecting best-in-class asset managers from across the globe for our clients to invest in. The team is also responsible for identifying new and emerging themes, monitoring selected managers and delivering bespoke client projects.
The Private Markets research function within the Manager Research team is unconflicted in its whole of market approach and is responsible for researching, selecting and monitoring private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate asset managers across a diversified range of global, emerging and regional private markets strategies. We are looking for you to join our Private Markets Manager Research team, where you’ll be responsible for:
- Conducting in-depth fund manager due diligence through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis, with a primary focus on private equity.
- Driving the continued build-out of our private equity research and strategy offerings for clients
- Presenting and articulating fund manager recommendations to the Investment Strategy Committee, clients, prospects and internal stakeholders (such as the Investment Consultant team).
- Closely monitoring the evolution of fund manager skill against their objectives post-selection.
- Actively contributing to the continual improvement of Redington’s Manager Research process.
- Working on bespoke client requests for manager selection exercises, new market evaluations, deep dive diligence, portfolio reviews and recommendations.
As a senior member of the team, you would also be instrumental in supporting the ongoing development of more junior team members.
Qualifications
This role is for you if you have:
- A background in private equity fund manager research and/private equity investment, be that as an investor or as an investment manager
- An analytical mindset – ability to cut through the marketing spin and understand where a manager’s edge truly lies.
- A ‘self-starter’ approach - taking the initiative and having the confidence to express a view.
- Qualitative and quantitative investment evaluation skills
- A strong sense of process and ability to project-manage
- The ability to listen to, absorb, evaluate and communicate complex ideas clearly, verbally and in writing.
- Experience working directly with clients.
- 8+ years of investment experience.
It would be great if you also have:
- A Professional qualification: eg CFA, CAIA.
- Experience working with institutional asset owners.
- An understanding of ESG and Climate-focused investing.
- Experience using industry tools such as Preqin, Bloomberg and Pitchbook
- Strong, Excel-based analytical capabilities
- Strong presentation skills
Additional Information
The Benefits
A competitive salary and bonus
Up to 9% matching contributions to our expertly-designed pension scheme
✈️ 25 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays and your birthday)
The Opportunity To Study Towards Industry-recognised Professional Qualifications
The flexibility to work from home two days a week
Access to private medical insurance, critical illness cover and life assurance
Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave
➕ Plus many more, which you can read about here
Equal opportunities
Diversity isn’t about recruiting individuals from minority groups to meet a quota; it’s about recruiting people from genuinely different backgrounds who bring with them a unique experience, perspective and skillset into an inclusive environment. Our commitment to inclusion and diversity will help us to tackle complex problems and create innovative solutions. You can learn more about inclusion and diversity at Redington here.
We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all applicants irrespective of their age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
