Job Openings XTN-185D439 | RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, APAC

About the job XTN-185D439 | RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, APAC

Glass Lewis is the world’s choice for governance solutions. We enable institutional investors and publicly listed companies to make sustainable decisions based on research and data. We cover 30,000+ meetings each year, across approximately 100 global markets.

Our customers include the majority of the world’s largest pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over $40 trillion in assets. We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific giving us global reach with a local perspective on the important governance issues. Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Kansas City, Missouri; London, U.K.; Paris, France; Limerick, Ireland; Karlsruhe, Germany; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan.

The main responsibilities of a Research Associate, APAC include:

  • Conduct corporate governance research on publicly-listed companies in the Asia-Pacific markets to which you are assigned.
  • Comb through publicly disclosed information (e.g. stock exchange announcements including annual reports and notices of meeting, company press releases, news articles, etc.) to collect corporate governance-related data on each company to which you have been assigned.
  • Analyse each company's governance practices within a policy-based framework of market best practices, with the majority of time being spent on board structures and executive remuneration packages.
  • Write draft recommendations to institutional investors on how they should vote at their portfolio companies' shareholder meetings.
  • Successful candidates will be assigned to company coverage in multiple markets, including: Japan, Australia, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, China, South Korea and more.
  • Where assigned to the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean markets (and others), the role will include the translation and interpretation of non-English filings using translation software and AI tools.
    Help in collecting data and assisting with other projects on an ad hoc basis.