JPM SIAG

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Group description:

Strategic Investment Advisory Group (SIAG), JPMorgan Asset Management.
This research and advisory group, located within the Institutional Sales area of JPMorgan Asset Management, serves the institutional client base and internal client-interfacing professionals by providing:
1) Research
2) Client work
• Advice, analyses, presentations, and recommendations to the firm's institutional clients (corporate and public defined benefit pensions, endowments and foundations) on various aspects of asset allocation and investment strategies in the context of specific institutional objectives, regulations and constraints
• Peer group analysis, competitive intelligence, and market trend research

Overview of the client team within SIAG

JPMAM SIAG's client team works closely with clients to develop objective, thoughtful solutions to broad investment policy issues. The team covers a wide range of investor types, such as corporate and public defined benefit pension plans, as well as Endowments & Foundations, across the US, UK, and Continental Europe. One common objective is to help clients develop a decision framework to identify the most appropriate strategic asset allocation. This involves working closely with clients to elicit and develop financial objectives, establish the relevant measures of success, determine which financial measures are most important and identify the relevant time horizons for analysis. The client team's advisory services are supported by powerful analytical capabilities for conducting asset-liability studies and determining optimal asset allocations. In addition, its risk management tools help in quantifying and communicating the expected intermediate-term risks associated with a specific plan's assets, funded status, pension expense and other key financial measures.
The team is also responsible for conducting peer group analysis, competitive intelligence, and market trend research across various sectors within equities and fixed income asset classes.

Job Responsibilities:

• 70% of time, focus on tailor made client work
- Create customized client presentations incorporating results from proprietary modeling tools and/or any tailor-made models developed for the client
- Initiate direct client contact (i.e. define objectives, refine assumptions, and produce deliverables)
- Produce client deliverables based on research (with a high econometrics focus) developed by SIAG research team
- Liaise with internal groups (research, products,…) to tap JPMorgan resources when needed
- Develop tailor-made models for clients to advise them on potential improvements to their portfolios
- Gather and analyze data in order to conduct research on asset allocation issues
- Understand pension liabilities and other pension-related rules (i.e. PPA) and be able to translate it into client specific context
- Contribute to research ideas and macroeconomic/asset class discussions
• 30% of time, focus on market strategy
- Liaise with the sales and product teams to position JPM products in client presentations
- Communicate strengths and weaknesses of competitor products to sales and product teams
- Understand the competitive landscape to identify opportunities for potential marketing campaigns
- Conduct analysis on high level market trends - industry asset flows analysis and search activity