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Macquarie Asset Management has a requirement based in our London office for an Emerging Market junior fixed income trader with 1-3years work experience to join the firm’s Global Emerging Market Debt team. Reporting to the Head of Emerging Market Debt, you will primarily support the team’s trading activity in hard, local currency and FX instruments. You will work closely with the firm’s Hard Currency and Local Currency Portfolio Managers and with the team’s senior trader.

Your responsibilities will require you to:

- act as a backup for the team’s senior EMD trader

- execute secondary and primary bond trades and FX transactions in the EEMEA time zone (hard currency, local currency sovereign, corporates and supranational bank bonds)

- assist in portfolio construction for the firm’s European focused ESG bond strategies 

- build and maintain contacts with the sell side

- monitor financial markets and newsflow

Additionally you will need to collaborate with other investment teams at Macquarie and articulate your views clearly to a broader investment audience. It is important that you are aligned with the overall culture of Macquarie. Given the global nature of the team and organisation, you will need to have a strong work ethic and be a self-starter.

To be successful you will likely have gained first experience of trading EM hard and local currency bond markets, have 1-3 years of trading experience ideally from the EMEA region, Basic knowledge of Blackrock Aladdin system and familiarity with standard financial market platforms such as Bloomberg, Reuters etc.

In conjunction you will likely have a Bachelor’s degree and a wish to progress toward the CFA charter, excellent communication skills, collaborative and team orientated whilst being Entrepreneurial and a self-starter

About Macquarie Asset Management

Macquarie Asset Management is a large scale, global asset manager, providing clients with access to a diverse range of capabilities and products across infrastructure, real estate, natural resources, private credit, fixed income, equities, multi-asset and liquid alternatives. As at 31 March 2021, Macquarie Asset Management had $A562.2 billion of assets under management.

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