Director, Manager – Research & Oversight

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About the role

  • Director leading manager research, due diligence, and investment oversight across Aviso’s public and private market strategies. Guiding research teams, manager selection, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, develop, and oversee the Manager Research & Oversight team
  • Set priorities, elevate research quality, and build a high-performance function across public markets, private markets, and liquid alternatives
  • Drive and implement the research agenda and investment process
  • Provide thought leadership on manager selection, oversight, and asset allocation
  • Conduct ongoing manager research and monitor institutional investment industry trends
  • Lead manager searches, due diligence, and selection recommendations for new and existing investment strategies
  • Present evidence-based conclusions to senior leadership
  • Monitor and evaluate product performance and identify optimization and innovation opportunities
  • Help drive the strategic vision for manager research and oversight
  • Provide actionable insights and investment recommendations to senior leadership
  • Enhance due diligence standards, monitoring tools, performance attribution, and quantitative analytics
  • Act as a subject matter expert on investment products
  • Provide investment insights and guidance to internal stakeholders and external partners
  • Present investment strategies and performance updates to clients and the sales team

Requirements

  • University Degree in Business, science, math or any quantitative fields
  • CFA charter holder
  • 8-10+ years’ progressive investment industry manager research work experience in asset management, wealth management or investment consulting
  • Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management and team development
  • Proven track record of evaluating and managing relationships with external investment managers
  • Proven ability to lead investment teams and influence senior stakeholders
  • Advanced skills or ability to quickly learn analytical tools such as eVestment, Morningstar Direct, Bloomberg, Copilot, and FactSet
  • Fluent communication skills in English are required
  • Experience researching global institutional investment strategies and making recommendations
  • Strong understanding of multi-asset investment strategies, investment products, and portfolio construction
  • Additional finance-related professional designations such as CAIA or CPA are an asset
  • Master’s degree in business, finance, or a statistically oriented field is an asset
  • Bilingual French skills are an asset
  • Experience using large amounts of data, Python, or quantitative investment techniques is an asset

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package that rewards and recognizes individual contributions
  • Excellent health, dental and insurance benefits
  • Generous vacation time
  • Fitness benefit
  • Parental leave top-up options
  • Matching contributions to retirement program
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Education assistance program
  • Regular social events
  • Accommodation support during all stages of the hiring process

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$135,000 - CA$170,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Python

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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