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Our Firm
American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
For more information, please visit americancentury.com.
If you’re a financial markets enthusiast and a strong communicator, we’re looking for you. We’re seeking an Investment Writer to produce actionable insights that help our clients make better investment decisions. As an Investment Writer, you’ll also help increase brand recognition for American Century.
As part of our Investment Communications team, the Investment Writer works closely with our portfolio teams to create fund commentaries, website articles and thought leadership. The Investment Writer also partners closely with our marketing and sales teams to distribute content to clients globally.
Responsibilities
- Develop annual content strategy in partnership with investment, marketing and sales teams.
- Create diverse types of content — short-form digital articles, white papers and presentations— that can be used throughout the client journey.
- Ensure the content has a strong call to action that’s relevant to the target audience, which includes individual investors, financial advisors and institutional investors.
- Work with the editorial team to optimize content for search engines.
- Interact with the compliance team to ensure content contains fair and balanced information for making an investment decision and appropriate disclosures.
- Communicate the status of projects to stakeholders
Qualifications
- Three+ years of professional writing experience.
- BA degree, Journalism or English preferred
- Exceptional writing and data interpretation skills.
- Strong interest in economics, financial markets, investment concepts and the asset management industry.
- Motivated self-starter who takes initiative, conducts research, prioritizes, organizes, follows through and meets deadlines.
- Intermediate to advanced user of Microsoft 365, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint
Requirement:
- Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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