Analyst, Equity Research at Standard Bank Group

Key responsibilities of the Insurance Analyst

• Initiate coverage of relevant and commercial number of stocks within the sector (e.g: Sanlam, Discovery, Old Mutual, Momentum, Outsurance, Santam, etc). Regularly and timeously write insightful and impactful research that results in a product suite that encompasses sector and company notes, thematic and periodical publications, comments on news flow and its impact of share valuations.
• Establish investor themes that run through the sub-sectors, commonality in valuation approaches.
• Develop commercial and differentiated product and marketing schedules.
• Market the investment ideas to domestic and offshore based global investors. Marketing consists of face-to-face road show meetings, video and conference calls, tele-marketing, e-mails, etc.
• Organise conferencing and corporate access calendars.
• Provide corporate access to link executives of corporations and other decision and opinion makers to investment managers. Corporate access can consist of conference calls, exclusive small scale management meetings, conference organisation, investor tour organisation, reverse road shows (offshore investors visiting region) and Non-Deal Roadshows (NDRs, e.g.: whereby the Bank organises an investor road show for management). Such activity benefits the analyst franchise and show cases the ‘execution abilities’ of the Bank.
• Complete and respond to ‘bespoke’ and ad-hoc client requests.
• A combination of the above is expected to result in a measurable progression of an analyst franchise (own and broker/bank brand combined) with institutional investors as measured in the customary broker performance reviews and external broker surveys.
• Inform and work with Sales and Trading, within compliance framework, to optimise the marketing and execution of investment ideas.
• Pro-actively pass interesting and commercial ideas on to counterparts in CIB for instance in ECM, DCM, M&A and broader corporate finance functions. These ideas can include but are not confined to capital raising, debt restructuring, buy backs, merger, consolidation and other deal ideas, balance sheet restructuring, etc.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: Degree
• Field of Study: Mathematical Sciences Or Actuarial Science or Accounting 

Experience Required

Macro Generic

• 5-8 years experience
• Insurance background required
• Global Markets Equity Research experience required
• Deep experience in coverage and management roles across the buy-side 
• Experience preparing presentation quality documents and executive level summaries. 
• Strong research background across all disciplines: Fundamental, Technical and Quantitative with prior research experience with global equities preferred