The Global Fixed Income Currency and Commodities team (GFICC) at J.P. Morgan Asset Management is a leading fixed income manager with over $1 trillion in assets and expertise across major sectors and niche markets. Our shared research language, combining fundamental, quantitative valuation and technical inputs, facilitates the comparison of ideas across sectors and geographies. The Global Credit Team manages corporate bond portfolios utilizing a rigorous, disciplined investment process with emphasis on transparency, teamwork and close monitoring of risk. This process has helped us generate consistent alpha from sector and security selection over the longer term, across conservative buy and hold strategies, benchmarked accounts with differing alpha targets, and total return–focused portfolios, including those within our flagship multi-asset strategies.
As the Investment Grade Credit Portfolio Manager within the Fixed Income team, you will have a proven track record of consistent alpha generation and a strong fiduciary mindset. You will report into the Head of US Credit and work closely with a team of deeply experienced portfolio managers, fundamental credit research analysts and traders. You will be based in New York and will coordinate with a large team of portfolio managers and credit analysts in NY, Columbus, and London, including the Global Head of Credit.
Job Responsibilities
- Translate investment process outputs into recommendations and implement across portfolios
- Generate positive sector alpha and influence cross-sector discussions by partnering with research to surface key developments and translate analyst insights into actionable positioning
- Identify trades, rotations, and relative value (RV) opportunities and size appropriately, balancing return vs. risks and aligning it with portfolio objectives.
- Identify developing themes early and recommend how to maneuver portfolios to benefit from them, including assigning appropriate risk to nascent themes.
- Adapt quickly when facts change and recommend concrete portfolio risk adjustments
- Partner effectively with other PMs, research, traders, and risk/governance teams
- Maintain command of key portfolio metrics and advanced risk measures
- Provide weekly thematic relative value/market-direction updates that provide monetizable opportunities and present differing views with supporting evidence to challenge and strengthen team positioning.
- Contribute to platform content and articulate and advocate investment views in regular forums, building clear, consistent arguments that help steer strategy across the platform and calibrate portfolio positioning.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Minimum of 10 years of credit investing / portfolio management experience
- Deep knowledge of fixed income and credit markets
- Strong fiduciary mindset
- Proven track record of delivering alpha through sector/security selection while taking into account macro strategy
- Collaborative investor that embraces a team based approached
- Clear and effective communicator willing to engage in lively investment discussions
- Familiarity with portfolio/risk management tools
- Proactive in adopting and leveraging new technologies to drive efficiency, enhance decision-making, and improve investment outcomes
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- CFA designation and/or a postgraduate degree a plus