Assistant Vice President, Investment Research

Job description

This Opportunity We are seeking a Chicago-based Assistant Vice President to join the firm’s Investment Research group. This position involves conducting research into economic, capital market, and property market trends in support of the firm’s investment strategies in private equity and private debt. Research is an integral part of the investment process at Heitman and the focus of significant corporate resources. Members of the department engage in top-down and bottom-up work designed to maximize investment performance for the firm’s clients. Qualifications: - Tracking market conditions across primary and alternative property sectors . - Synthesizing data from a range of sources (including third-party market data providers and Heitman’s own portfolio) with intel gathered from industry sources, market tours, and resources within other groups in the firm to create a house view on property sector fundamentals and opportunities . - Analyzing data and creating models to formulate investment strategies and direct capital deployment related to individual property sectors and broader portfolio construction across a variety of equity and debt strategies . - Using the above inputs to formu...