Reporter

With over 170 subscribing investment management firms MandateWire is a successful subscription business covering the investment activities of institutional investors across the globe. We are looking for an inquisitive and creative journalist to join our team of reporters based in New York and produce daily news stories on North American institutional investors (predominantly pension funds, foundations and insurers) within their specific beat. We seek team players who thrive in a work environment that offers collegiality and support.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Your primary responsibility will be to conduct interviews with representatives of pension funds, foundations, insurers and other institutional investors that are based in the US. Interviews are conducted predominantly on the telephone and occasionally at conferences.
Based on these interviews and other research (including annual reports etc) you will be responsible for writing original news stories to deadline about the investment activities of these investors, including mandate tenders, hiring and firing of asset managers, strategic asset allocation shifts, investment managers used and consultants engaged etc.
Inputting this information to a central internal contacts database and producing a set number of mandate opportunity stories for inclusion in daily emails.
Maintaining and adding to the list of investor contacts
The role will also involve producing broader editorial content for a monthly and quarterly analysis of industry trends

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications / Capabilities / Skills / Experience

Essential

Must have an excellent and professional telephone manner. The role involves speaking with senior institutional investment decision makers and the ability to create a rapport with these contacts is essential.
Superb organisational skills to manage time effectively, scheduling calls, inputting data and meeting the daily, monthly and quarterly deadlines.
Ability to analyse large amounts of data and identify relevant material.
Good level of computer skills.

Desirable

Journalism experience within a related field, covering investments and pensions
Experience interviewing sophisticated senior executives

Person Profile

Must be well-organised and able to prioritise workload effectively
Polite and confident telephone manner
Detail oriented
Calm under pressure
Eye for detail - both for writing accurate stories and sifting through large amounts of data in annual reports.
Must be able to multi-task
Flexible
Proactive
Team player

A reasonable estimate of the salary range for this role is $71,000-75,000. To ensure pay fairness, the successful candidate will be offered a salary within the estimated salary range based on a number of considerations including but not limited to: skill set; experience and training; certifications; and other business and organisational needs. The disclosed range estimate is for our NYC office and has not been adjusted for other locations. This position is represented by the Writers Guild of America East.