Credit Research, Principal

7 months ago


Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia AIA Full time

FIND YOUR 'BETTER' AT AIA
- We don’t simply believe in being ‘The Best’. We believe in better - because there’s no limit to how far ‘better’ can take us._
- We believe in empowering every one of our people to find their 'better' - in the work they do, the career they build, the life they live and the difference they make. So that together we can support even more people - including our own - to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives._

If you believe in better, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role

(a) Responsible primarily for Credit Research and related matters. Ensure execution of quality and timely research papers and updates.

(b) Responsible in getting approvals for credit issuers, internal ratings and limits in ensuring smooth and efficient management of corporate credit and government guaranteed portfolios.

(c) Responsible for the management of own Credit Research portfolio, as part of supporting portfolio performance and / or peer ranking.

Roles and Responsibilties:
1. CREDIT RESEARCH
- Responsible for Credit Research portfolio
- Responsible for providing investment opinions and trade ideas to a number of Investment teams within Fixed Income.
- Analyse dynamic credit situations and develop investments thesis and trade ideas.
- Supervise credit risk of existing holdings across the various portfolios to assess continued exposure and develop robust risk mitigation approaches and improvements in execution.
- Research new investment ideas for portfolio consideration.
- Focus on continuous improvement in areas of credit modeling and monitoring systems.
- Ensure annual reviews of holdings in the existing portfolio as well as write and publish high quality research papers on the sectors of expertise to support investment decision.
- Ensure all holdings are supported by research paper and analysis is not stale.
- Ensure timely turnaround in credit approval by Group Investment, by having the ORRs assigned to respective issuers by Credit Analysts are in accordance to Group Risk’s final ORR and limit assignment of the issuers.
- _Each Credit Analyst is assigned sectors for coverage, which differ from the level of complexity and number of companies per sector._
- Initiate AAMP (special approval) for any issuer and sector. Timely approval by having the ability to gauge successfulness of acquiring the approval within timeline.
- Support in the management of meetings
- Participate in discussions at Group Investment meetings, for eg, Weekly Fixed Income calls and Fixed Income Quarterly Portfolio Review Meetings.
- Be responsible for the maintenance of own proprietary Credit Research on Risk Origin (Group system for credit).
- Handle any defaulted / restructuring issues by having a comprehensive plan to negotiate with issuers and other bondholders in achieving the best outcome for AIA, including seeking relevant approvals.
- Formulate calls on securities to assist the Portfolio Managers in improving total return on IL funds.

2. OTHERS
- Perform adhoc projects, as and when required by management.

3. COMPLIANCE
- Ensure compliance with investment parameters and requirements from both internal and regulatory.
- Ensure adherence to policies, operating guidelines, processes and procedures.
- Any breach shall be reported with explanation leading to the breach and action to resolve.
- Ensure audit trail is available for compliance and audit check.
- Ensure appropriate approval is being sought prior to execution.
- Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives._



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