Overview
Investment Manager Jobs in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates at Emirates Investment Authority
Title: Investment Manager
Company: Emirates Investment Authority
Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Purpose
The Investment Manager will:
- Lead manager sourcing and due diligence across absolute return and equity sub-strategies
- Structure managed accounts and bespoke mandates
- Reallocate capital into higher-alpha strategies aligned with portfolio objectives
- Strengthen resilience within the Asset Management team
- Support performance oversight and active portfolio management
Responsibilities & Duties
- Manager Sourcing & Origination
- Identify, source, and evaluate global investment managers across:
- Alpha transport strategies
- Market neutral strategies
- Equity extension strategies
- Hedged equity strategies
- Maintain strong institutional relationships with consultants, peers, and managers
- Proactively identify diversification opportunities to reduce single-manager concentration risk
- Due Diligence & Investment Assessment
- Conduct full investment, operational, and risk due diligence independently
- Build and review advanced financial models and performance attribution analyses
- Evaluate strategy robustness, alpha sustainability, and scalability
- Assess portfolio construction, factor exposures, liquidity profile, and risk controls
- Prepare detailed investment memoranda for internal review
- Mandate Structuring & Execution
- Structure and negotiate managed accounts and fund allocations
- Lead execution processes from approval to funding
- Coordinate with Legal, Operations, and Risk to finalize documentation
- Manage capital deployment for ring-fenced allocations (e.g., USD 600m Alpha Transport allocation)
- Ensure optimal ticket sizing and manager diversification (e.g., USD 200m mandates)
- Portfolio Monitoring & Performance Oversight
- Monitor performance, risk exposures, and alpha delivery
- Review manager reporting and fair value estimates
- Conduct periodic strategy reviews and performance diagnostics
- Respond to underperformance with structured engagement plans
- Recommend manager exits, reallocations, or mandate changes where appropriate
- Governance & Committee Reporting
- Present investment recommendations to Investment Committees
- Prepare periodic performance and attribution reports
- Ensure all documentation meets EIA governance and audit standards
- Maintain databases of prospective and rejected investments
- Team Contribution & Resilience
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to Investment Analysts
- Support team knowledge development in absolute return and alpha transport strategies
- Contribute to team resilience and reduce key-person dependency risk
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
Education
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Economics, Business, or related discipline
- MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification preferred
- CFA or equivalent professional designation strongly preferred
Experience
- 10+ years of institutional investment experience
- Significant experience in manager selection and portfolio construction
- Demonstrated expertise in:
- Absolute return strategies
- Alpha transport strategies
- Market neutral mandates
- Equity extension structures
- Experience structuring and managing managed accounts
- Experience within:
- Sovereign wealth funds
- Pension funds
- Asset managers
- Institutional investment consulting firms
Technical Skills
- Advanced financial modeling and performance attribution analysis
- Strong understanding of portfolio construction and risk-adjusted returns
- Familiarity with hedge fund and alternative strategy structures