The Research Associate will be involved in primary research and responsible for reaching out to fund managers based in the Asia Pacific region to build relationships and obtain valuable proprietary information. This information consists of investment activities and preferences, fundraising and performance. This is a unique research role, requiring a sales-like mindset to unlock research relationships across the region. The role will also include handling data inquiries, quality assurance, data monitoring for consistency and client engagement regarding our Preqin Pro platform. The role will be based in Singapore.
What you’ll be doing:
- Proactively communicating and building relationships with key professionals of all levels within the alternative assets industry to obtain valuable proprietary information on past, current and future investment activities including historic performance
- Holding regular face to face meetings with APAC-based fund managers to gain fundraising and performance data and working actively alongside the APAC sales team to build strategic research relationships with fund managers and other key regional associations
- Conducting bespoke statistical analysis for clients
- Liaising with our teams in North America and EMEA, as well as collaborating with other departments in the company, to deliver requests and provide solutions.
- Supporting senior leaders on research projects and regional strategy regarding further data enhancement and development activities
- Contributing to research reports, blogs and publications occasionally and supplementary public/web research where necessary
What you’ll bring to us:
- You have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with relevant industry experience of 2 years
- You possess highly proactive and enthusiastic approach to relationship building
- Business proficiency and fluency required in Korean and English
- You have strong research capabilities and investigative instincts
- You perform effectively in a target-driven environment, working towards set KPIs and performance metrics
- You are highly organised, self-motivated and collaborative
- Regional knowledge of the private capital industry, and alternative assets in general, is desirable
- Previous work experience focused on communication and relationship management is highly desirable
Qualifications are not as essential as experience. If you feel you have work examples and projects that illustrate what we need, we’re happy to have a conversation.
Why join us?
About Us
You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.
Our Culture
We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We’re building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and it's an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally.
Equal opportunities
Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law
