APAC Head of Equities
We are currently representing an exciting hedge fund manager who are seeking a senior investor to build and lead its APAC fundamental equities team. This is a high-impact leadership hire, tasked with establishing and scaling a regional franchise within a top-tier global hedge fund.
Role Overview
- Build, lead, and manage the APAC fundamental equities business, with responsibility for idea generation and alpha delivery
- Focus on fundamental research and stock selection, partnering with centralised teams for portfolio construction, sizing, and risk management
- Define regional research strategy across APAC equities, including sector focus and market coverage
- Hire, mentor, and develop a high-calibre team of analysts and sector specialists
- Work closely with the firm's central risk, data, and quant teams to translate research into deployable investment strategies
Key Responsibilities
- Generate high-conviction long/short ideas across APAC equities using a disciplined fundamental process
- Build and institutionalise a repeatable research framework across sectors and geographies
- Establish best-in-class research standards, including modelling, channel checks, and variant perception work
- Collaborate with portfolio construction and risk teams, who are responsible for sizing, exposure, and capital allocation
- Scale coverage across key APAC markets (Japan, China, Korea, India)
- Recruit and develop talent, fostering a high-performance, research-driven culture
Key Requirements
- Proven track record as a senior Portfolio Manager, coming from another multi-manager platform
- Deep experience investing in APAC equities across one or multiple sectors
- Clear strength in idea generation and research leadership, rather than pure portfolio construction
- Prior experience building or leading analyst teams
- Established network across corporates, sell-side, and expert channels within APAC
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to operate effectively within a centralised, systematic risk framework
- Strong intellectual rigour and a well-articulated investment philosophy
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