Position Overview
Forum produces research by conducting in-depth interviews with senior executives and industry specialists to unearth critical insights and generate unfiltered content.
Our 120-strong industry aligned team covers over 10,000 public and private companies, applying data-driven factor models to identify opportunities across various asset classes and geographies.
We are currently looking to recruit a Japanese-speaking Sector Analyst as part of our Forum team in Hong Kong. On a daily basis you’ll be engaging industry thought leaders to drive insights directly to our clients.
In this role you will be expected to:
- Produce research on industries and businesses in Japan and the wider APAC ex-China region for our tier-one asset management clients;
- Generate actionable investment ideas, perform initial due diligence and prepare detailed questions lists, and then go deeper into the subject matter by hosting interviews on those topics with industry experts and executives;
- Drive discussions with industry specialists, extracting value-added and actionable insight throughout your discussions;
- Manage internal and external stakeholders; educate and pitch upcoming work to sales teams; interact and build relationships with clients;
- Build out your network with industry specialists across your areas of coverage; do deep-dives on industries/companies, figure out where specialists have non-consensus views, and build out a pipeline of content.
A successful candidate will display these personal attributes:
- Intellectual Curiosity; deeply interested in understanding financial markets and building expertise in analysing businesses, strong research/analytical skills.
- Strong Relationship Builder; ability to confidently interact with C-level executives and industry experts, proficient at working both independently and effectively with diverse teams with different perspectives and backgrounds.
- Strong Communicator; excellent written and verbal communication skills, highly logical and structured, and exceptional attention to detail.
- Results Driven; self-starter committed to digging deep into their coverage, a high degree of work ethic, and personal responsibility/ownership for the role.
- Entrepreneurial; a strong entrepreneurial drive and desire to help shape and develop the Forum product.
