Principal, Public Markets, Investment Risk UK
This senior AustralianSuper role independently challenges listed-equity investment decisions. It assesses portfolio construction, manager choices and emerging market risks within the fund’s wider investment-risk framework.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Review equity portfolio strategy and manager appointments.
- Assess concentration, liquidity and factor exposures.
- Challenge investment assumptions and valuation approaches.
- Develop risk assessments for committees and senior decision-makers.
What they ask for
Required
- Listed-equity investment expertise
- Portfolio-construction knowledge
- Independent investment-risk judgement
- Risk-framework development
- Senior stakeholder communication
Preferred
- Pension-fund or sovereign-investor experience
- Education
- Relevant qualifications and risk-management accreditation, or willingness to obtain the accreditation.
- Experience
- Extensive public-markets investment or investment-risk experience; minimum years are not specified.
- Markets
- equities, multi-asset
How to prepare
- Prepare an independent risk review of an equity portfolio.
- Analyse manager concentration and overlapping factor exposures.
- Study liquidity and valuation risks in institutional equity mandates.
What to study
- Portfolio Theory and Quantitative Investment
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with AustralianSuper and doesn’t handle applications.