ETF Portfolio Manager
A recruiter seeks an ETF portfolio manager for an unnamed employer. The mandate covers index replication, rebalancing and tracking-risk control for physical or synthetic funds.
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.
- Rebalance ETF portfolios and manage creation or redemption baskets.
- Analyse index rules, liquidity and tracking error.
- Monitor swap-based exposures where synthetic structures are used.
What they ask for
Required
- Direct ETF portfolio management
- Index replication and tracking analysis
- ETF market operations
- Stakeholder communication
- Mandarin and English
Preferred
- Cantonese
- Education
- Bachelor’s or master’s in finance, economics, mathematics, computing or a related field.
- Experience
- At least 4 years managing Hong Kong public-equity funds, including 2 years directly managing ETFs.
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities
How to prepare
- Replicate an index with practical trade and liquidity constraints.
- Attribute tracking error to costs, cash and index changes.
- Compare physical and swap-based ETF exposures.
What to study
- Portfolio Theory and Quantitative Investment
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
- Quantitative Risk Management
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Unicorn Advisor (HK) Limited and doesn’t handle applications.