Japan

Business development, Portfolio and fund management

Asset Management

Your role

UBS Asset Management's Unified Global Alternatives (UGA) business actively manages investments of around USD 286 billion globally and regionally within Asia Pacific, Europe and the US, making it one of the largest asset managers in alternative investment solution providers worldwide. Our capabilities reach across the risk/return spectrum, ranging from core to value-add and opportunistic strategies in real assets, private markets as well as hedge funds. We offer indirect exposure to leading real estate, infrastructure, private equity, private credits and hedge funds managers. The business attracts capitals from institutional and private investors globally, and is looking to expand this capability with a new hire for the business development team.

Are you at your best when serving clients and providing specialist real assets and private markets knowledge? Do you have the demonstrated ability to work with clients to deliver alternative investment solutions?

We are looking for someone who can:
・provide specialist knowledge of UGA's products, especially real assets and private markets, to Japanese investors
・deliver UGA's global capabilities and platform to the Japanese market
・provide high-quality investment solutions to investors
・work closely with the Asset Management Client Coverage and Wholesale teams as an alternative 'investment specialist' to support sales and client services efforts in Japan
・work with the wider UGA APAC portfolio management teams as well as the global UGA teams
・work with the UGA Distribution and Client Coverage/Marketing teams to prepare and maintain materials specific for the Japanese market
・manage Japanese clients invested in UGA products via local discretionary management accounts (in conjunction with the Client Coverage), which will include client reviews, ad-hoc queries and client servicing

Job Reference #

324671BR

City

Tokyo

Job Type

Full Time

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Your team

You’ll be working in the UGA Japan team in Tokyo. This team is a part of the wider UGA APAC teams. The team delivers real estate, infrastructure, private equity, private credits, hedge funds and multi-alternatives solutions and products to our clients and prospects.

Your expertise

You have:
・significant experience, at least 10 years, in an institutional investment, private markets specialist, product specialist or alternative sales role
・advanced technical, product and market knowledge in one or several of real estate, infrastructure, private equity, private credit investments
・preferably have experience of working in a large institution with a demonstrated collaborative approach to working with generalist sales teams
・fluency in Japanese with excellent written and spoken English

You are:
・an excellent communicator, with great presentation skills
・flexible and collaborative in serving institutional clients (the challenge is actually your favorite part)
・entrepreneurial and self-motivated

About us

Expert advice. Wealth management. Investment banking. Asset management. Retail banking in Switzerland. And all the support functions. That's what we do. And we do it for private and institutional clients as well as corporations around the world.

We are about 60,000 employees in all major financial centers, in almost 900 offices and more than 50 countries. Do you want to be one of us?

Join us

Are you truly collaborative? Succeeding at UBS means respecting, understanding and trusting colleagues and clients. Challenging others and being challenged in return. Being passionate about what you do. Driving yourself forward, always wanting to do things the right way. Does that sound like you? Then you have the right stuff to join us. Apply now.

Disclaimer / Policy statements

UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.