Credit analyst and Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities & Duties:

1. Perform credit research and analysis on Asia Investment Grade corporates issuing USD
bonds across various countries and industries. Recommend on each credit to portfolio
managers, based in Singapore and Tokyo, with the use of relative value analysis.

2. Assist the portfolio construction and daily portfolio management operation for Asian fixed
income mutual funds domiciled in Japan. Identify the key macro and market factors across
Asian fixed income market, with deeper analysis and communication with counterparties,
then help decision making on investment into the market. Monitor the regulatory and guideline change in investing in Asian fixed income market, then liaise with relevant team
in Japan and Singapore if necessary.

3. Take an active role for Asian credit portfolio , which is one of our key flagship Japan
domiciled mutual fund in providing market information and insights to Tokyo based
portfolio managers, product managers as well as relationship managers facing more than
60 of fund distributors in all over Japan

4. Prepare periodical and ad-hock performance and portfolio analysis report of Asian credit
portfolio management for Japan domiciled mutual funds required by fund evaluation
agencies.

Required:

1. More than 5 years of experience in Asset Management industry

2. More than 3 years of experiences in credit research and Asian credit portfolio
management. As a credit research analyst, need experiences covering financial sector, one
each from cyclical sector and non-cyclical sector. Also, extensive knowledge and skills for
credit review for more than 50 bond issuers, including the hands-on experience in
portfolio research and analysis using rating agencies and other information sources. Experience of regular execution of recommendation/presentation of portfolio research for
investment decisions by portfolio manager

3. Expertise in Asian credit portfolio management for Japan domiciled mutual funds

4. Japanese language skill of JLPT N1 or equivalent for prompt and accurate communication
on market updates / investment insights by portfolio managers with our distributors, over 60 regional financial institutions in Japan. Since any miscommunication with the
distributers can cause a serious damage to the end-client's trust, this requirement is
important

5. Expertise in analysis of macro data and market analytical skills for interest rate, FX

6. Experience in preparing performance review reports for clients or fund evaluation
agencies

7. Microsoft Office Suite: Proficient with Word/PowerPoint/Access/Excel and VBA
programming

8. OMS, Financial data services: Excellent command of CR-IMS and Bloomberg

Preferred:

1. Experience in investment operations for multi-asset portfolios.