Responsibilities
Own the firm’s patented behavioural frameworks, covering financial personality and the quality of financial decision-making, including their ongoing calibration and improvement as member data grows Direct the firm’s macroeconomic research, covering tracking of high frequency indicators and the macroeconomic views published from it Oversee product scoring and ranking models across mutual funds, health and term insurance, credit cards, home loans, NPS and crypto Lead the development of financial planning models, including asset allocation frameworks, portfolio optimisation methods and stress testing Direct the primary research behind 1 Finance Magazine and the firm’s periodic research reports (real estate, credit, liability planning, global economic outlook) Manage the research team, including hiring, performance reviews, research standards and publication quality
Skills
5-10 years of experience in financial research, quantitative modelling or a related field, with work that has informed real investment or advisory decisions Has built at least one research product end-to-end, covering framework design, data, modelling, output and maintenance Experience managing researchers across disciplines, including quantitative research, macroeconomics, data science and financial products Working proficiency in Generative AI, logical thinking and programming, with the ability to review and challenge the models of others A serious interest in behavioural finance; the firm’s research begins with how individuals behave with money Macroeconomic literacy, including the ability to connect macroeconomic developments to household-level financial decisions Clear writing, as the function’s research is published to members and to the advisory community
