Reporter, MandateWire Europe – Financial Times (London)

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Overview

MandateWire is a successful subscription publication within FT Specialist covering the investment activities of institutional investors across the globe.

A team of reporters based in the FT’s London office is responsible for covering specific regions and investors for the European service, with each team member sourcing information on the investment activities of asset owners within their specific territory.

This vacancy is for someone to cover investor activity predominantly in the UK, with focus on the pension, insurance, charitable and wealth management spaces.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Your primary responsibility will be to conduct interviews with representatives of investors. 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 in English 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 the daily emails.
• Maintaining and adding to the list of investor contacts.
• The role will also involve producing broader editorial content for monthly and quarterly analysis of industry trends.

Requirements

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.
• 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. Knowledge of Microsoft Word and excel

Desirable

• Knowledge of financial terms.
• Experience interviewing sophisticated senior executives.
• Fluent in another European language.

You’ll be…

• Well-organised and able to prioritise your workload
• 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 worker

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