VP, Quantitative Strategist, External Managers

GIC is one of the world’s largest investors and sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we work at the point of impact for Singapore’s financial future and the communities we invest in worldwide.

About the role

The External Managers Department seeks to identify and develop relationships with the best global investment managers to benefit GIC at large, while capturing investment opportunities to outperform our benchmarks.

You will partner with portfolio managers and analysts in EMD. Your primary focus will be on the Developed Markets Equity book, applying quantitative and data-driven techniques, including AI/ML, to sharpen how external managers are underwritten, sized, and monitored. Your work will span quantitative research, idea generation, quantitative due diligence, portfolio construction, monitoring, and performance attribution. The objective is to improve risk-adjusted returns by embedding quantitative excellence into the investment process and partnering with portfolio managers to answer hard questions.

Responsibilities

• Quantitative Research: Deliver deep research on portfolio topics, typically as short white papers, and cross-pollinate applications, analysis, and insights across investment teams.
• PM Engagement: Work directly with PMs to analyze markets, strategies, and allocations (e.g., long-only and long-short equity hedge funds) to create conviction in allocations, support continuous underwriting, and explore new investment areas of focus.
• Portfolio Construction: Support the investment team in portfolio construction, risk budgeting, and factor analysis to uncover opportunities and challenges.
• Market and Portfolio Insights: Conduct data-driven research to identify dislocations and their drivers, and understand how market regimes and macro drivers affect managers' alpha cycles, surfacing opportunities and headwinds to the investment team in a timely way.
• AI and Unstructured Data Enablers: Apply AI/ML to structured and unstructured manager information and contribute to building agents to enhance and augment the department’s investment process.
• Tooling and Productionization: Develop analytics and applications (e.g., Streamlit apps) that begin as research in response to specific portfolio questions and productionize recurring work, ensuring it is documented and version-controlled. Contribute to the department's shared libraries, documentation, and analytical standards.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (master’s or PhD preferred) in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Financial Engineering, or Economics.
• Relevant experience in quantitative research and analysis, ideally applied to equities and/or manager/fund analysis; experience with the assessment of external managers is an advantage.
• Strong expertise in data integration for investment analysis and in quantitative portfolio construction, risk modeling, and performance attribution.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with strong data-visualization skills; familiarity with Databricks or similar, cloud/lakehouse workflows, Git-based development, and modern AI/ML and LLM tooling is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to understand and cater to the needs of portfolio managers and analysts, and to translate quantitative results into actionable investment insight.

Work Environment

At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. Teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

We are a values-driven organization. GIC’s PRIME Values—Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit, and Excellence—act as our compass, guiding behaviors, decision-making, and focus. These values inform our long-term strategy and how we relate to our clients, business partners, and employees.

Pay

Total pay for this position comprises base pay and bonus. The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $200,000 and $280,000. Bonuses, which may form a meaningful proportion of the total pay package, are determined based on company and individual performance.