Quant jobs / GIC Private Limited

AVP, Portfolio Manager - Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Engineering and Solutions

GIC’s portfolio-construction manager develops allocation and rebalancing frameworks. The work turns portfolio objectives, factor views and real-world constraints into robust investment recommendations.

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.

Formulate portfolio objectives, risks and constraints
Research robust and Bayesian allocation methods
Develop cost-aware multi-period rebalancing
Monitor risk contributions and forward scenarios

What they ask for

Required

Quantitative master or doctorate
Portfolio optimisation and constraint design
Risk decomposition and budgeting
Python or R plus SQL
Multi-asset portfolio knowledge
Scenario analysis
Investment communication

Preferred

Private markets
Doctorate
AI/ML tools

Education: Quantitative master qualification; doctorate preferred.
Experience: Preferably 2–5 years with a successful portfolio-construction record.
Languages and tools: Python
R
SQL
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Build a constrained allocation and diagnose unstable weights
Compare covariance assumptions and parameter uncertainty
Demonstrate cost-aware rebalancing across market scenarios

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with GIC Private Limited and doesn’t handle applications.