Investment Manager in Cardiff

Brooks Macdonald Group plc is one of the UK's leading wealth management firms, recognised for investment performance and client service. We offer leading multi-asset investment services to intermediaries and high-quality financial planning advice to private clients, benefitting from a strong local presence across the UK. We see an opportunity to lead the way within our sector in relation to sustainability and responsible investing. We have set a target for our direct footprint to be Net Zero by 2030 and continue to enhance our approach to responsible investment, which includes offering a dedicated service for clients with values-based objectives.

We offer fulfilling careers in an inclusive culture that values diversity and ambition and rewards high performance. Our guiding principles underpin our culture and are at the heart of everything we do: we do the right thing, we make a difference. We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who live our guiding principles and are focused on ensuring the best outcomes for our clients. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunities and positively encourage applications regardless of race, religion or belief, sexuality, age, disability, gender, gender identity, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.

Collaboration and knowledge-sharing are important to us as a firm, and we value different ways of working. Employees are required to be in the office three days a week, with flexibility to work from home on the other two days.

Role Overview

This role is a key figure in the investment team responsible for managing and constructing investment portfolios and contributing to sector research. In this role you’ll be ‘Certified’ under the Financial Conduct Authority Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR). This means that we’ll need to complete some regulatory background checks on you before you take up your role and we’ll need to ask you some questions on an annual basis to make sure you remain ‘fit and proper’ and competent to carry out your role. We’ll provide training on what holding a SMCR role means when you join us and annually thereafter.

Role Responsibilities

• Construct, implement and monitor client’s portfolio ensuring that the investment falls in line with company policy, BITA risk tolerance, asset allocation recommendation and tolerances.
• Act as point of contact for advisers regarding existing and new client queries.
• Attend review meetings for clients presenting the client portfolio and its performance.
• Select appropriate investment solutions by reviewing current product sets and house research, to build tailored and scalable solutions for clients.
• Collate and maintain investment commentary for distribution to advisers.
• Ensure that appropriate due diligence has been undertaken on proposals and management of portfolios to reflect the clients' investment profile.
• Manage and track leads to provide realistic MI data.
• Work with introducers and BM team to ensure client issues are raised and addressed.
• Gather market intelligence and client insights and work closely with the appropriate product specialists to design new products to benefit client portfolios.
• Maintain close relationships with segment leaders, investment platforms and product specialists to ensure any client insights or market intelligence can be fed back for potential product development or service opportunities.
• Grow and enhance the reputation of Brooks Macdonald within the Region.
• Support the team in reaching overall budget and individual team and company targets.
• Perform role always ensuring adherence to the expected behaviours stated in the FCA Conduct Rules.

Knowledge, Skill, and Experience

• Relevant experience in investments.
• A thorough understanding of likely investment propositions for private clients.
• A good understanding of investment strategy and asset allocation.
• A sound understanding of the regulatory requirements around investments.
• In-depth knowledge in all aspects of portfolio construction including risk and attribution management.
• In-depth broad investment product knowledge.
• Ability to understand and assimilate complex investment information.
• Ability to engage diverse clients, fund managers and product providers to drive the effort in winning business.