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Senior Portfolio Manager – Systematic Fixed Income, VP

A portfolio manager role on the systematic fixed income team at the asset management arm, running index-tracking bond portfolios and ETFs. The team manages a very large pool of global indexed exposures.

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.

Construct and rebalance index fixed income portfolios, including ETFs
Keep portfolios within their risk targets and objectives
Work with investment and operational risk teams on risk controls
Follow government and inflation index exposures in the US and Canada
Use technology to improve portfolio management processes

What they ask for

Required

5-10 years in the financial industry
Familiarity with broad investment-grade indices, especially US and Canadian government and US inflation indices
Fixed income market structure knowledge
Client-facing skills
Project management

Education: Graduate degree and/or CFA charterholder
Experience: 5-10 years in the financial industry
Markets: fixed-income

How to prepare

Learn how bond index replication and sampling work
Study duration, key-rate exposures and tracking error for bond portfolios
Understand US Treasury and TIPS index mechanics
Build a small optimiser that tracks a bond index under turnover limits

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 State Street and doesn’t handle applications.