Description

The Portfolio Manager: Private Markets will lead the strategy and oversight of the private markets programme for Old Mutual's With-Profit Policyholder (WPP) funds. This is one of largest institutional private markets portfolios in South Africa, encompassing private equity, infrastructure, development finance, natural resources and other private asset classes.

The role covers the strategy, portfolio construction and ongoing oversight of the full private markets book, including sub-asset-class allocation, commitment sizing and pacing, due diligence on new investments, representation of the funds' interests in governance forums, and holding the underlying managers to account for performance and value. This is one of the senior investment roles in a compact, specialist team that sits within the broader Symmetry platform and can draw on its wider investment capabilities.

The team is newly established within Symmetry and is in build mode, ...