Job ID: 38464
Location: Singapore, SG
Area of interest: Private Banking & Wealth Management
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Office Working
Opening date: 4 Sept 2025

JOB SUMMARY

This role could be based in Singapore and Hong Kong. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.The Head of Asset Allocation is responsible for leading the bank’s global asset allocation framework across discretionary and advisory businesses. The role owns the processes around Capital Market Assumptions (CMAs), as well as for Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation (SAA/TAA). Core responsibilities including maintaining and enhancing portfolio construction frameworks, delivering high-quality model allocations, contributing to the Global Investment Committee, ensuring governance and risk oversight and engaging closely with stakeholders across CIO Office, Front Office and Product Partners. This individual will be a senior leader within the investment function, promoting a disciplined, data-driven, and collaborative approach to portfolio construction and asset allocation.

ABOUT STANDARD CHARTERED

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we’ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you’re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can’t wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in relevant publications supporting the broader CIO office.

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Economics market fundamentals
• Cross-Asset analysis
• Communications skills
• Quantitative analysis