Director Investment Management
Salary surveys & compensation benchmarks
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Role summary
Manages, directs, or supervises staff and the implementation of investment management strategies for an assigned function or specialty. Oversees and manages a team responsible for evaluating investment analysis projects. Conducts due diligence, researches and analyzes strategies, and oversees the evaluation of investment alternatives. Sources and conducts due diligence on hedge funds managers, research and analyze strategies such as distressed, merger arbitrage, convertible arbitrage, global macro, commodities, and fixed income arbitrage. May have specific responsibility for an assigned substantial area of investment management or for an assigned business processes. Regularly interacts with peer level operational management to provide advice on financial issues and make specific recommendations on approaches and strategies. Typically requires a master’s degree or higher in Mathematics, Business, Finance, Statistics or equivalent and experience and demonstrated competence of advanced analytical methodologies.
Job summary sourced from the Empsight benchmark job library.
Reports covering Director Investment Management
Director Investment Management salary survey FAQ
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- Compensation for Director Investment Management varies by industry, region, company size, and revenue. Most surveys above publish cuts on those dimensions. Industry-specific surveys (healthcare, tech, financial services, etc.) typically report meaningfully different ranges than cross-industry surveys for the same role.
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