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-Introduction
Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.
Role Purpose
Assisting Momentum Investment’s Economist and Head of Investment Research and Asset Allocation by researching, analyzing, writing and presenting on both international and domestic economic developments inter alia by using econometric techniques and models.
Requirements
- Postgraduate Degree in Economics/ Econometrics.
organisation and already be writing economic reports and doing economic
presentations.
- Communication skills and PC literate.
- Analytical and technical skills to develop, test and maintain econometric models.
- Good writing and presentation skills on economics.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines on written reports and presentation
requirments.
- Detail-orientated and efficient.
- Teamwork
Duties & Responsibilities - Collection and analysis of data.
- Maintenance of databases.
- Developing and testing econometric models based on key market and economic relationships.
- Writing regular reports on economic data releases including: GDP, CPI, Quarterly Bulletin releases, rates announcements, fiscal policy and other monthly economic trend releases.
- Develop a broader understanding of evolving economic trends and their impact on financial markets.
- Staying abreast of the main developments in SA fiscal and monetary policy, as well as academic literature.
- Ad-hoc economic and markets research projects as they emerge.
- Doing presentation on economic views to internal and external stakeholders.
Competencies - PC Literate.
- Excellent teamwork, analytical, communication, writing and presentation skills.
- A proven understanding of statistical and quantitative methods necessary to conduct empirical
research.
- Strong interest in financial markets.
Policy
We are committed to Employment Equity, diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally. All appointments are made in alignment to our Employment Equity goals and we encourage people with disabilities to apply.