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A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions, and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As a primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals.
Job Summary & Responsibilities:
Multi-Asset Solutions, “MAS” is an investing group within the Asset Management Division at Goldman Sachs. MAS is responsible for managing customized multi-asset class portfolios and funds, including discretionary mandates for US and international public pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies and providing outsourced CIO services. The team is comprised of professionals with deep and varied investment backgrounds who specialize in designing and implementing customized multi-asset class portfolios. The team applies rigorous techniques to strategic and tactical asset allocation, asset-liability analysis, portfolio design and implementation, risk management, and portfolio reporting and analytics. The team has been managing customized multi-asset class mandates since 1995 as a committed partner to corporate pensions, sovereign wealth funds, healthcare organizations, endowments, foundations, and government institutions.
Role:
The successful candidate would become a member of our New York Portfolio Management team within MAS with focus on the Outsourced CIO channel and will be responsible for daily management of US and international pension portfolios in line with MAS investment philosophy, client guidelines and regulatory constraints. This role is highly analytical and detail-oriented, focusing on managing strategic and dynamic investment exposures across many asset classes and investment strategies.
Core Responsibilities:
- Managing multi-asset class portfolios in line with client guidelines, internal investment policies, and regulatory constraints. Develop investment judgment and expertise, with expectation of being able to perform key portfolio management responsibilities within a few months after joining.
- Trading across asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, alternatives) and instruments (futures, forwards, ETFs, options, swaps, funds).
- Managing portfolio risk across various investment vehicles and product desks, including exposure, currency and cash management, investment manager/vehicle oversight.
- Working closely with other MAS teams to implement dynamic asset allocation views with consistency and scale, including determining optimal instruments to trade based on fund-specific, regulatory and market-related considerations.
- Structuring trades across asset classes to manage the portfolio in line with hedging and flow considerations, in collaboration with GSAM’s trading desk.
- Managing derivative-based overlay strategies to enhance risk management profile of overall portfolios and/or capture market risk premia.
- Analyzing portfolio risk and performance attribution and reporting findings to Senior Portfolio Managers on a weekly basis.
- Leading complex portfolio events, including onboarding of new client mandates, portfolio restructurings, requiring coordination across multiple internal investment teams throughout the firm, as well as external managers and trading counterparties.
- Lead investment and risk projects aimed at enhancing and scaling trading and risk management processes, infrastructure, and analytics to further empower the team’s oversight over portfolio management activities and mitigate trading risks.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Advanced degree and/or CFA designation preferred
- 6-12 years of investment management experience, with successful track record of leading teams and employing qualities and functional abilities referenced above
- Ability to communicate investment strategies and rationales to audiences of varying levels of sophistication
- Experience in trading and managing risk with derivative instruments
- Positive attitude and eagerness to work in a team-centric environment
- High degree of investment awareness, including macroeconomic trends and implications for investing in a multi-asset class framework. Intermediate or advanced knowledge of asset allocation principles and of factor investing approaches
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Creative, with good problem-solving abilities
- Detail-oriented and organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- A self-starter able to work independently and thrive in a team environment
- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; Bloomberg, Reuters or financial data systems knowledge preferred
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
New York
JOB FUNCTION
Investing & Portfolio Management - Public
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management
SALARY RANGE
USD 125,000 - 290,000
Asset & Wealth Management
A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions, and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As a primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals.
Job Summary & Responsibilities:
Multi-Asset Solutions, “MAS” is an investing group within the Asset Management Division at Goldman Sachs. MAS is responsible for managing customized multi-asset class portfolios and funds, including discretionary mandates for US and international public pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies and providing outsourced CIO services. The team is comprised of professionals with deep and varied investment backgrounds who specialize in designing and implementing customized multi-asset class portfolios. The team applies rigorous techniques to strategic and tactical asset allocation, asset-liability analysis, portfolio design and implementation, risk management, and portfolio reporting and analytics. The team has been managing customized multi-asset class mandates since 1995 as a committed partner to corporate pensions, sovereign wealth funds, healthcare organizations, endowments, foundations, and government institutions.
Role:
The successful candidate would become a member of our New York Portfolio Management team within MAS with focus on the Outsourced CIO channel and will be responsible for daily management of US and international pension portfolios in line with MAS investment philosophy, client guidelines and regulatory constraints. This role is highly analytical and detail-oriented, focusing on managing strategic and dynamic investment exposures across many asset classes and investment strategies.
Core Responsibilities:
- Managing multi-asset class portfolios in line with client guidelines, internal investment policies, and regulatory constraints. Develop investment judgment and expertise, with expectation of being able to perform key portfolio management responsibilities within a few months after joining.
- Trading across asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, alternatives) and instruments (futures, forwards, ETFs, options, swaps, funds).
- Managing portfolio risk across various investment vehicles and product desks, including exposure, currency and cash management, investment manager/vehicle oversight.
- Working closely with other MAS teams to implement dynamic asset allocation views with consistency and scale, including determining optimal instruments to trade based on fund-specific, regulatory and market-related considerations.
- Structuring trades across asset classes to manage the portfolio in line with hedging and flow considerations, in collaboration with GSAM’s trading desk.
- Managing derivative-based overlay strategies to enhance risk management profile of overall portfolios and/or capture market risk premia.
- Analyzing portfolio risk and performance attribution and reporting findings to Senior Portfolio Managers on a weekly basis.
- Leading complex portfolio events, including onboarding of new client mandates, portfolio restructurings, requiring coordination across multiple internal investment teams throughout the firm, as well as external managers and trading counterparties.
- Lead investment and risk projects aimed at enhancing and scaling trading and risk management processes, infrastructure, and analytics to further empower the team’s oversight over portfolio management activities and mitigate trading risks.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Advanced degree and/or CFA designation preferred
- 6-12 years of investment management experience, with successful track record of leading teams and employing qualities and functional abilities referenced above
- Ability to communicate investment strategies and rationales to audiences of varying levels of sophistication
- Experience in trading and managing risk with derivative instruments
- Positive attitude and eagerness to work in a team-centric environment
- High degree of investment awareness, including macroeconomic trends and implications for investing in a multi-asset class framework. Intermediate or advanced knowledge of asset allocation principles and of factor investing approaches
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Creative, with good problem-solving abilities
- Detail-oriented and organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- A self-starter able to work independently and thrive in a team environment
- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; Bloomberg, Reuters or financial data systems knowledge preferred
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
New York
JOB FUNCTION
Investing & Portfolio Management - Public
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management
SALARY RANGE
USD 125,000 - 290,000
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Portfolio Manager
Verify your CFA credential transfers cleanly
Singapore-issued CFA and CAIA designations are recognized by U.S. employers, but confirm your credential body has a U.S. membership record. Gaps in verification slow offer letters and delay LCA filing with DOL.
Target asset managers with existing H-1B1 LCA history
Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter for employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications under H-1B1 Singapore for finance or investment roles. These firms already understand the consular process and won't stall on paperwork.
Search verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters Portfolio Manager roles by H-1B1 visa Singapore visa sponsorship history so you're only seeing employers who have actually filed, not those who say they're 'open to sponsorship' with no record behind it.
Confirm the wage level before signing an offer
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for portfolio managers in that metro area. Check the OFLC Wage Search for the SOC code 13-2099 wage levels before you negotiate, not after.
Request consular processing in Singapore not a COS
H-1B1 applications bypass USCIS entirely and go directly to the Singapore U.S. Embassy. If a recruiter suggests change of status filings, clarify that H-1B1 is consular-only and ask their immigration counsel to confirm the correct pathway.
Check your O*NET profile matches the job description
Portfolio Manager roles must qualify as a specialty occupation. Pull the O*NET profile for your target SOC code and confirm the employer's job description requires a directly related bachelor's degree, not a general business background.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Portfolio Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation under H-1B1 Singapore?
Yes, portfolio management qualifies when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in finance, economics, or a directly related field. Roles that accept any business degree without field specificity can face scrutiny. The O*NET profile for financial managers and investment analysts is the standard employers use to document specialty occupation status in the LCA.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa compare to H-1B for Portfolio Manager roles?
H-1B1 Singapore skips the lottery entirely and is processed at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore rather than through USCIS. The 5,400 annual cap has never been exhausted, so timing isn't a competitive constraint. The trade-off is that H-1B1 doesn't allow dual intent, so maintaining nonimmigrant intent is a real consideration if you plan to pursue permanent residency later.
How do I find Portfolio Manager employers who already sponsor H-1B1 Singapore visas?
Migrate Mate lets you search Portfolio Manager roles filtered specifically by H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship history, pulling from DOL Labor Condition Application data. This surfaces employers who have completed the LCA process before, which significantly reduces the risk of an offer falling through due to employer unfamiliarity with the visa category.
Can I switch Portfolio Manager employers while on H-1B1 Singapore status?
Yes, but the new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and complete a new consular application before you begin work. There's no portability provision like H-1B's AC21 rule. If you're between roles, your authorized stay doesn't automatically extend, so time your transition carefully and confirm the new employer's filing timeline before giving notice.
What role does the employer play in the H-1B1 Singapore filing process for this position?
Your employer files the Labor Condition Application with DOL and provides a support letter for your consular interview. They don't petition through USCIS as they would for H-1B. You attend the interview at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore and receive the visa stamp directly. Employers unfamiliar with this process sometimes assume USCIS is involved, which it isn't.
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