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Purpose of role:

Reporting to the Head of Stewardship, this role sits within the Stewardship team, which is part of the Responsible Investment group of Man Group. The candidate will focus on the implementation of stewardship approaches, including proxy voting and engagement across Man Group’s investment capabilities.

 

Specific responsibilities:

Proxy Voting

• Oversee the day-to-day relationship with our proxy voting research provider
• Ensure consistent and informed proxy voting activities, ensuring timeliness and completeness of the execution of our proxy votes
• Collaborate with Stewardship team members to perform an extra level of analysis of the 3rd party research and recommendations to ensure we vote in alignment with our firm’s policies and/or client requests
• Serve as a senior point of contact for portfolio managers’ queries on proxy voting, providing expert advice on complex voting matters
• Maintain and produce accurate voting reports for various stakeholders, identifying opportunities to enhance reporting quality and efficiency
• Set up new funds for proxy voting by completing fund documentation and liaising with our proxy advisor and custodians.
• Monitor equity account setups through Man’s control frameworks to mitigate proxy voting risks and oversights

 

Engagement

• Work with portfolio managers and collaboratively with other investors to deliver tangible results at investee companies
• Utilise company disclosures, third party research and other available resources to conduct non-financial analysis to assess company adherence to ESG market standards across different industries, supporting junior team members in defining ESG best practice
• Identify issuers for targeted engagement in order to meet our ESG / Responsible investment (RI) targets, prioritising based on materiality frameworks and strategic importance
• Lead engagements with corporate representatives from our funds’ portfolio companies to discuss ESG matters, including climate change, biodiversity, human rights and corporate governance

 

Reporting and Policy Updates

• Lead the delivery of engagement and proxy voting-related queries in due diligence questionnaires (DDQ) or Requests for Information (RFI), ensuring consistency and quality of responses and coaching junior analysts in their contributions
• Drive the development and maintenance of stewardship-related policies and play a leading role in contributing to international stewardship codes’ requirements

 

 

Technical competencies:

• A degree in finance, economics, business, law or other relevant subjects
• Professional qualifications in finance or ESG, such as IMC, CFA level 1, CFA in ESG investing or other relevant qualification (desirable)
• Knowledge of policy issues of corporate governance, stewardship and shareholder rights and responsibilities, with evidence of knowledge of wider responsible investment issues
• Strong IT skills including proficiency with Microsoft Office
• A motivated self-starter that is organised, structured and proactive
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently, take initiative and add value to the team
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong presentation and writing skills
• Detail-oriented and analytical skills
• Information seeker and aptitude to problem-solving and holistic thinking