Associate/Analyst,Research(Equity)

This is an equities research role in the Singapore Manulife Equities Investment Team. The research effort will primarily be focused on the Singapore market. He will be expected to analyze stocks and sectors base on the company's/sector's fundamentals and make appropriate recommendations to the investment team. It will involve quantitative and qualitative financial analysis, building company's earnings model, and bottom-up company investigating work to contribute towards the team's investment decisions. **Position Responsibilities:** _Our Investment Process / Philosophy_ * Maintain a thorough understanding of the investment philosophy and process of the Singapore Investment Centre and a good understanding of the philosophy and process for Manulife Investment Management as a whole. To comply with this philosophy and process at all times throughout the investment process. _Investment Skills_ Develop and maintain an investment skill as follows: * Investment theory and Quantitative Techniques – maintain a thorough knowledge of basic investment theory and the quantitative tools used in this Investment Centre * Analysis of the qualitative factors relevant to a company * Security analysis – analysis of cash flows, balance sheets, profit and loss statements, DCF etc and the ability to judge when our valuation of companies based on the above analysis is discounted by the markets and with appropriate ESG consideration. * Macro-economic analysis – maintain a detailed knowledge of the corresponding, economic and financial trends of your assigned countries and their impacts on markets, sectors and stock models. * Political consideration – maintain knowledge of the political situation and its potential impact on your assigned universe. _Investment Research_ * Actively initiate research on the Singapore market. These should include detailed sector and company analysis to reach a security conclusion and stock recommendation to the investment team with clear investment thesis and val