Ashmore 2025 Graduate Program - Legal/ Compliance

Ashmore’s history goes back over three decades. Based in London, the business was founded in 1992 as part of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. In 1999 Ashmore became independent and today manages USD 48.8 billion (as at 31 December 2024) in pooled funds, segregated accounts and structured products.

We were one of the first investment management firms to offer investors direct access to a broad group of emerging economies and today we continue to innovate. We pioneered investment in Emerging Markets at a time when the so-called ‘Third World’ countries were considered by many to be unusual and risky. We believed strongly then in the potential of ‘Emerging’ Markets, and we continue to believe in their importance as a major asset class.

Ashmore’s outstanding portfolio management and research team have developed an investment approach based on three decades of Emerging Markets experience.  Ashmore offers a number of investment themes including External Debt, Local Currency, Corporate Debt, Blended Debt, Equities, Alternatives, Overlay/Liquidity and Multi-Asset. Testament to the company’s success is the confidence which central banks, government and corporate pension funds, institutions and high net worth individuals have demonstrated by investing with Ashmore.

The Graduate Program
 

The purpose of the program is for participants to gain a thorough understanding of the business, with the final goal of taking on a role in the Distribution, Legal or Compliance teams.

Shorter placements on both programs will include spending time with the fixed income investment teams, External Debt, Local Currency Debt and Corporate Debt; the equity investment teams, Small Cap and All Cap EM Equity, Frontier Equity and Active Equity; Research and Risk Management. Trading, Operations, Legal (for those who are part of the Distribution program) and Finance will be covered through workshops.

By the end of the program participants should be IMC qualified and should have developed a solid understanding of how Distribution or Legal/Compliance operate. In addition, participants should thoroughly understand how other key business functions work and are reliant on each other to deliver positive investment outcomes to our clients.

Legal/ Compliance 

Participants will take part in a series of structured rotations with the lion share of their program spent with Legal and Compliance which will include Legal Funds and Trading, Legal Investment, Company Secretarial, Regulatory Compliance, Investment Process Compliance and Compliance Coding.  Participants will also complete shorter placements across the business to ensure a thorough understanding of how an Asset Management business works.