Head of Asset Allocation(Singapore, Hong Kong)

Job description

Job ID: 38464

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Private Banking & Wealth Management

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 4 Sept 2025

JOB SUMMARY

This role could be based in Singapore and Hong Kong.

When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.The Head of Asset Allocation is responsible for leading the bank's global asset allocation framework across discretionary and advisory businesses.

The role owns the processes around Capital Market Assumptions (CMAs), as well as for Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation (SAA/TAA).

Core responsibilities including maintaining and enhancing portfolio construction frameworks, delivering high-quality model allocations, contributing to the Global Investment Committee, ensuring governance and risk oversight and engaging closely with stakeholders across CIO Office, Front Office and Product Partners.

This individual will be a senior leader within the investment function, promoting a disciplined, data-driven, and collaborative approach to portfolio construction and asset allocation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Portfolio & Asset Allocation

• Own and maintain the Capital Market Assumptions (CMAs) as the foundation for SAA and TAA processes.
  
  
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of SAA and TAA frameworks, ensuring alignment with house view.
  
  
• Deliver and enhance global portfolio construction, optimisation, and risk management methodologies.
  
  
• Maintain and update global segment, country, and product model allocations for use across discretionary and advisory platforms.
  
  

Global Investment Committee

• Provide high-quality inputs and insights into GIC discussions including relevant sub-committees.
  
  
• Ensure asset allocation decisions are supported by rigorous analysis and stress testing.
  
  
• Monitor allocation performance against benchmarks, conducting scenario analysis and sensitivity assessments where required.
  
  
• Represent the asset allocation perspective in internal forums and cross functional investment discussions.
  
  

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted partner to Front Office, Investment Advisors, Investment Strategists, and Product teams.
  
  
• Support distribution of asset allocation solutions into discretionary mandates and advisory portfolios globally.
  
  
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior management and country-level investment forums.
  
  
• Collaborate with compliance, legal, and risk teams to ensure governance standards are met.
  
  

Governance, Risk & Oversight

• Ensure all asset allocation processes comply with governance and risk standards.
  
  
• Execute governance deliverables (procedures.
  
  policies, oversight processes) with accountability.
  
  
• Lead or contribute to ad-hoc projects requiring investment governance or model oversight.
  
  

People Leadership

• Supervise and a small team, ensuring clear accountability and professional growth.
  
  
• Promote a collaborative and high-performance culture.
  
  
• Ensure consistent quality, timeliness, and efficiency of deliverables across the team.
  
  

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
  
  
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank.
  
  This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
  
  
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  
  

Key Stakeholders

• Global CIO
• Global Investment Committee members
• CIO Investment Strategists
• Advisory & Managed Investment Teams
• Front Office (Relationship Managers, Investment Advisors)
• Risk, Governance and Compliance functions

Other Responsibilities

• Participate in relevant publications supporting the broader CIO office.
  
  

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years' experience in multi-asset portfolio management, asset allocation, or investment strategy.
  
  
• Proven track record in portfolio construction and performance delivery.
  
  
• Strong knowledge of global markets, macroeconomics, and investment strategy .
  
  
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills.
  
  
• Strong governance and process discipline.
  
  
• CFA designation preferred.
  
  
• Ability to speak in business Mandarin as the role will focus on North Asian corridor.
  
  

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Economics market fundamentals
• Cross-Asset analysis
• Communications skills
• Quantitative analysis

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact.

For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other.

We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before.

If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you.

You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours.

When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
  
  
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
  
  
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
  
  
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
  
  
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
  
  

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