Portfolio Strategy Associate, Office of the CIO

Role Description

The Office of the CIO is seeking an intellectually curious investment professional to help shape the firm's portfolio construction, asset allocation, and risk management process. Working directly with the CIO, this individual will play a meaningful role in evaluating portfolio positioning, developing analytical insights, and advancing GEM's portfolio management capabilities. This is a highly analytical role, requiring strong technical skills but also sound investment judgment and a genuine passion for understanding how institutional portfolios are constructed and managed.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Help develop forward-looking capital market assumptions, including expected returns, volatility, correlations, and macroeconomic scenarios that inform strategic portfolio decisions.
• Design and run optimization frameworks, scenario analyses, and stress tests to evaluate portfolio positioning under a range of market environments.
• Perform financial time series analysis and quantitative research to identify trends, market regimes, and investment opportunities that support portfolio decision-making.
• Conduct independent research on asset classes, market themes, and portfolio construction topics.
• Synthesize academic research, industry publications, and market developments into practical investment insights.
• Challenge existing assumptions through rigorous analysis and intellectual curiosity.
• Stay current on developments in institutional investing, portfolio theory, capital markets, and quantitative research.
• Contribute original thinking that advances GEM's investment philosophy and portfolio construction process.
• Build and maintain risk analytics infrastructure, including factor decomposition, currency exposure, market exposure, liquidity, and more.
• Produce analyses for the CIO, Investment Committee, and client teams, communicating complex findings in a clear and actionable manner.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance GEM's investment analytics capabilities.
• Utilize programming, AI, and emerging technologies to enhance investment research and analytical capabilities.
• Build tools and models that improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of investment analysis.
• Collaborate with Data & Systems Integration and Fund Operations to ensure data quality and support investment processes.
• Explore innovative applications of AI and large language models to strengthen research, idea generation, and portfolio analysis.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of investment experience, whether making investment decisions directly at a hedge fund, multi-strategy platform, or asset manager, or supporting them within an OCIO, endowment, foundation, pension, or family office.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Excel (including VBA and Solver), or similar analytical tools.
• A strong understanding of institutional portfolio construction, asset allocation, portfolio theory, and capital markets.
• Demonstrated ability to think independently, synthesize complex information, and apply sound judgment to investment questions.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to present complex quantitative concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• An intellectual curiosity and a desire to continuously deepen investment knowledge.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with multi-asset portfolios, strategic asset allocation, manager research, portfolio construction, or investment strategy.
• Experience conducting financial time series analysis, quantitative research, or econometric analysis.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg, portfolio management systems, risk analytics, and performance attribution tools.
• Experience leveraging AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or other large language models to enhance investment research and analytical workflows.
• Progress toward or completion of the CFA designation is viewed favorably.