Director, Private Markets Research

LSEG•New York, NY

2d•$239,800 - $399,600•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is within the FTSE Russell Global Investment Research (GIR) team, focusing on private markets investment research. The team publishes insights on market dynamics across global regions and asset classes using FTSE Russell indices and other data sets. The research aims to enhance client engagement with asset owners, asset managers, ETF issuers, and wealth channels. The role holder will be pivotal in expanding GIR's research to provide clients with investable insights across private equity, private credit, infrastructure, and real estate, leveraging new Private Market Indices developed in partnership with Stepstone Group. The candidate should be comfortable developing private markets research using index data and from a cross-asset perspective, highlighting asset allocation insights within private markets and their integration into wider portfolios. An understanding of the impact of macroeconomics on financial markets and a background in private markets within asset management, asset owner, investment research (buy-side or sell-side), or multi-manager research is expected. The role requires a deep understanding of financial markets and the private markets landscape, strong quantitative skills (ideally with Python and analytics platforms like LSEG Workspace and Datastream), and excellent communication and presentation skills for client engagement.

Requirements

Post-Graduate degree in an investment management-related field, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience in private markets investment research and portfolio management, either on the buy-side or sell-side, in wealth or institutional money management.
Deep understanding of global financial markets, multi-asset investing, and private markets.
Holistic understanding of financial markets from a macroeconomics to multi-asset perspective.
Excellent knowledge and understanding of investment analytics and quantitative investment techniques.
Strong background in statistics, econometrics, and numerical methods.
Good coding skills to support empirical research, including good working knowledge of a quantitative programming language such as Python.
Comfortable using Jupyter Notebooks, running Python scripts, extracting data from APIs, and performing analysis in code.
Familiarity with and interest in financial data.
Experience of senior level client engagement in a research capacity, with the required gravitas and presentation skills.
Ability to work in a global team across time zones.

Nice To Haves

CAIA or CFA would be a big plus.
Familiarity with Git, collaborating on coding projects / package management, Streamlit / Dash experience and SQL would be great.
Experience with LSEG Workspace and Datastream, and similar data platforms would be a great plus.
Experience working with index data and financial datasets would be a great plus.
A proven track record of authorship of client-facing research publications and presentations.

Responsibilities

Lead the initiation of Private Markets research for GIR.
Conduct research and investment writing to deliver high-quality, thought-provoking research content, including regular periodical research reports, short storytelling pieces, topical research insights, white papers, and deep thematic research.
Utilize new datasets and analytics to expand the repertoire of GIR research into private markets.
Host webinars, conduct senior/strategic client-facing research engagements, and actively participate in industry conferences and events.
Work closely and collaboratively with others in the GIR team and contribute to the research efforts of team members across asset classes.
Actively engage and partner with key internal stakeholders in Product, Index methodology research, Marketing, and Sales, as well as external stakeholders of FTSE Russell.
Support index product strategies to drive ETF client adoption and AUM-based revenues.
Be comfortable with both the Wealth and Institutional channels.