With Intelligence is looking for a hardworking and enthusiastic reporter to join our team of journalists covering the activities of a broad range of institutional investors in the US.
The role is ideal for a journalist looking to build their financial reporting experience working for an established global media brand and wanting to cultivate fruitful relationships with some of the most influential investors in the US.
We need reporters hungry for news, who will come in and hit the phones to uncover exclusive information for our subscribers and build strong relationships with industry execs. Reporters should be comfortable pitching interviews with senior investment staff at large allocators and working hard to uncover leads.
In addition to growing a source network and pitching interviews, the chosen candidate will also be responsible for reporting a beat list of investors. You must be proactive about staying on top of regular investment committee meetings, digging through dense financial documents and reports for actionable news updates, and piecing together interesting news stories from a variety of sources including board documents, financial reports and meeting transcripts.
You’ll be working as part of a fast-paced news team, with daily story deadlines to ensure we are providing our subscribers with the actionable intelligence they need from us, ahead of the game.
You’ll be working with editorial and research colleagues across our global footprint to track the investment decisions of the world’s largest and most sophisticated investors, including US public pensions, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and corporate pensions.
The target audience for our coverage is primarily asset raisers at asset management companies and industry service providers, as well as investment consultants, institutional investors and wealth intermediaries.
The Responsibilities
- Break daily news on institutional investors
- Build relationships among the investor community by working the phones, pitching interviews, and attending industry events
- Stay on top of wider industry trends impacting hedge funds, private markets and traditional asset managers.
- Travel occasionally to cover industry conferences and build contacts
Requirements
- Financial reporting experience and/or journalism training and a desire to build a career in financial/business journalism
- Ability to break exclusive news and write compelling and insightful analysis
- Analytical and interested in working with data
- Good networking skills and a track record of developing contacts and sources
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Understanding of investing, wealth management and asset allocation strategies
Benefits
- 24 days annual leave rising to 29 days
- Enhanced parental leave
- Medicash (Health Cash Plans)
- Wellness Days
- Flexible Fridays (Opportunity to finish early)
- Birthday day off
- Employee assistance programme
- Travel loan scheme
- Charity days
- Breakfast provided
- Social events throughout the year
- Hybrid Working
Our Company:
With Intelligence is based at One London Wall, London EC2Y 5EA. We offer amazing benefits, free breakfast daily and drinks provided all day, every day. We actively encourage social networks that oversee activities from sports, book reading to rock climbing, that you are free to join.
As part of our company, you will enjoy the benefits of an open plan office and working with a social and energetic team. With Intelligence provides exclusive editorial, research, data and events for senior executives within the asset management industry. These include hedge funds, private credit, private equity, real estate and traditional asset management, and our editorial brands are seen as market leaders in providing asset manager sales and IR execs with the actionable information they require to help them raise and retain assets. To maintain and grow our position in the market we need to continue to hire highly motivated, thoughtful and to ensure our subscribers are getting the exclusive intelligence they need first, and most comprehensively, through our range of services. If you are interested so far in what you have read, please apply, we look forward to hearing from you.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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