Associate Portfolio Manager, Md Signature

Requisition ID: 159810

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

For more than 50 years, MD Financial Management has provided Canada’s physicians and their families with discerning and timely financial guidance. We take pride in knowing physicians best, understanding the challenges and decisions they will face from medical school through to retirement. As a non-commission financial institution, our differentiator has always been our commitment to offering clients advice based on their best interests.

We are looking for a new team member who understands the importance of taking care of those who are committed to taking care of us. An individual who not only thrives on nurturing existing relationships, but is motivated by the opportunity to build trusted, long-term connections with new clients. A person who appreciates the opportunity to work as part of a team of experts to provide tailored solutions that address every aspect of the physician lifecycle.

The Associate Portfolio Manager, MD Signature, occupies a key role within MD Financial Management. Working as dedicated advisor to our high-net-worth clients, the Signature Associate Portfolio Manager will leverage their years of industry experience, along with the expertise of a Portfolio Manager, and a team of experts to conduct comprehensive financial planning for our high net worth clients to foster, maintain and strengthen client relationships.

We are seeking a team member who truly understands the critical role played by Canada’s physician population. A client-centric, proactive professional committed to building financial well-being for Canada’s doctors. A consummate professional who clearly understands the criticality of carefully nurturing long-standing client relationships as well as the importance of cultivating new ones. A high-performer who realizes that removing financial concerns from the day to day allows doctors to do what they do best - take care of us.

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**How You Will Contribute**:
Reporting to the Regional VP, MD Signature Private Wealth Management, as an Associate Portfolio Manager, MD Signature, you will play a key client relationship management role for MD’s most affluent clients. Your guidance will be based on a holistic understanding of their financial goals and challenges, as well as their personal circumstances. Through focused listening and singular client engagement, you will actively work to help your clients understand the value of your recommendations by taking the time to explain investment options in a way that is meaningful to them.

As the owner of the end-to-end client experience, you will coordinate the MD Signature Team comprised of Financial Planners, Estate and Trust Advisors, Insurance Consultants and Taxation Specialists to deliver customized financial plans and specific investment strategies. You will be accountable for ensuring client needs are pro-actively addressed in alignment with their current financial situation and life stage, as well as their future aspirations.
- You will be accountable for the identification and development of new opportunities to prospect and grow the MD Signature client base, while ensuring retention of clients through focused relationship management and co-ownership of the client’s financial plan.
- You will participate in discovery meetings, working with Financial Planners and other advisors within the team to develop client wealth plans.
- You will be responsible for assessing client objectives and risk tolerance, calibrating investment solutions based on client input and cues, developing, and implementing the appropriate written Investment Policy Statement, including the gathering of client personal information, determining asset allocation, and identifying special needs and liquidity requirements.
- You will communicate and explain to clients the individual fund manager's strategy, including management style and view of each Pool held in the portfolio, MD's strategic and tactical view on markets and the economy, and overall portfolio performance.
- You will analyze securities for transfer in-kind due to capital gain/loss reasons, analyze segregated stocks and bonds to determine classification, suitability, and eventual disposition/tranching-in strategies, review credit quality and duration of fixed income investments, analyze industry, sector and country allocation as it pertains to equity investments.
- You will facilitate client reviews including discussion of portfolio performance, periodic reviews of appropriateness of objectives and of tax situation and cash flow needs.
- You will participate in client events, facilitate seminars and information meetings throughout the region (both client facing and internally), and implement marketing strategies to provide advice and information concerning investment programs and related services.
- You will be responsible for understanding how the Bank’s r