Grayscale Investments is the world’s largest digital currency asset manager. Through its family of investment products, Grayscale provides access and exposure to the digital currency asset class in the form of a traditional security without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping digital currencies directly. With a proven track record and unrivaled experience, Grayscale’s products operate within existing regulatory frameworks, creating secure and compliant exposure for investors.
Position Summary:
Grayscale Investments is seeking a Portfolio Manager to manage digital asset/crypto and equity products across a range of investment vehicles, including ETFs and private placement trusts. Successful candidates will have experience managing passive or rules-based strategies, and are driven by precision, efficiency, and continuous improvement. The Portfolio Manager will have a unique opportunity to play a strong role in shaping the investment and operational framework of managing portfolios as the business evolves to adopt new systems and launch products with new vehicles.
Responsibilities:
- Manage portfolios to meet performance standards consistent with funds’ investment objectives, while adhering to regulatory and compliance rules and client constraints.
- Implement rebalance and reconstitutions, taking into account trading costs, tax implications, market impact and other considerations.
- Daily monitoring of portfolio positioning, model drift/dispersion, cash management and compliance within client guidelines.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of investment strategies managed and regularly review portfolios to analyze investment performance.
- Proactively contribute to the development of investment, operational, and system process enhancements
- Liaise with other departments internally, including Trading, Operations, Product, Research, Legal/Compliance, and Sales/Marketing.
Prior Experience/Requirements:
- 5-10 years of overall experience in the investment management industry.
- 3+ years of portfolio management experience managing taxable SMAs (Direct Indexing) for high-net-worth investors and/or managing ETFs, with a preference for equities.
- BS/BA in degree in a relevant field; graduate degree and/or industry certifications such as CFA preferred.
- In-depth knowledge of portfolio construction, indexing, ETF capital markets, trading, and operations.
- Experience working with multi-factor risk models and portfolio optimizers (e.g. Axioma, BARRA, Northfield), Factset, and/or other financial tools.
- Experience managing funds with currency and futures/options overlays a plus.
- Strong skills in Excel, Bloomberg, and investment analytical tools; familiarity with programming such as Python/SQL a plus.
- Experience and understanding of allocation of duties between an investment advisor and sub-advisor a plus.
- Knowledge of and passion for digital assets/crypto a plus.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments while producing high quality work in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
- High degree of professional discretion, integrity, and judgement.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, and relationship-building skills.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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What We Do
Grayscale enables investors to access the digital economy through a family of secure, compliant, and future-forward investment products. Founded in 2013, Grayscale has a proven track record and unrivaled expertise as the world’s largest digital currency asset manager. Investors, advisors, and allocators turn to Grayscale’s private placements, public quotations, and ETFs for exposure to both single asset, diversified, and thematic investment products.
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