Portfolio Manager - Generalist - Fundamental Long Short Equities (HK)

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

Maven differentiates itself from other market participants in several ways; we are exclusively managing our own capital, as the firm is entirely employee owned; we have delivered an exceptional return on equity since inception; we maintain an entrepreneurial culture and can be flexible to the requirements of different styles of investing and trading; we value non-traditional strategies as well those more commonly seen in the market; and we encourage our investment team to work in a highly collegiate way by sharing information, finding synergies and ultimately maximising opportunities.

We have a central infrastructure platform that enables our investment team to trade independently yet operate within a centrally driven risk-management and operational framework, and we have invested heavily in proprietary technology across all business areas.

Our mission is to maintain our position as a market-leading investment house comprising of the best portfolio managers and traders in the market.

The Role & Responsibilities

Maven is looking for an outstanding Portfolio Manager to join its Hong Kong based investment team. The mandate of the candidate will be to construct and manage a fundamentally driven, market-neutral portfolio of equities that can deliver consistent and absolute returns.

The candidate with preferably focus on a defined universe of stocks, or cover a specific sector

We are seeking candidates who demonstrate original idea generation that incorporates a deep fundamental understanding of the companies they cover, an awareness of industry and market dynamics that may impact valuation, a process for actively engaging with management teams, and an ability to form their own views in the presence of information that is being presented by corporates, sell-side analysts and other market sources.

The candidate will be responsible for all investment decisions, the construction of the full portfolio and the overall risk management of every line within the trading book.

Candidate Specifications

• 2+ years as a Portfolio Manager, or 5+ years as an Investment Analyst / Assistant PM
• Proven track record that can be shared and verified
• A clearly defined, robust and repeatable investment process
• Strong research acumen
• Ability to construct a market-neutral portfolio and effectively manage volatility
• Deep understanding of trading Asian equity markets and the stocks they cover
• A high-level of attention-to-detail
• Perform well in high pressure situations
• Be able and willing to integrate into the broader team of Portfolio Managers