Investment Research Professional, Private Credit Secondaries

Aksia Overview

Aksia is an alternative assets specialist, providing investment solutions for institutional investors globally. Our business provides clients with advisory, investment management, and research services across hedge funds, private credit, private equity, real assets, and real estate. As of September 30, 2025, Aksia advises on over $362bn and manages $33bn of client capital.

Position Overview

Aksia is seeking an investment research professional to join our Investment Research team, focusing on private credit secondary investments and to a lesser extent co-investments and primaries. Our Investment Research team is responsible for identifying and screening potential investment opportunities, performing valuation and related transaction due diligence and structuring analyses, proposing investment recommendations, and monitoring portfolio holdings. This individual will be integral to the continued growth of Aksia’s secondaries investments and responsibilities may further include various business development activities such as prospect discussions, networking and educational initiatives.

This position can be based in Aksia's New York office or in our Chicago or San Diego offices, or remote and will include regular interaction with global colleagues and clients. The firm features a global team of investment research professionals covering the private credit markets and works with over 100 institutional clients including pension plans, insurance companies, government-related institutions, endowments, foundations, and superannuation funds.

Responsibilities

Taking a lead role in sourcing, screening, and analyzing private credit secondary transactions and select co-investments and primaries

Providing thorough qualitative research and financial statement analysis

Conducting financial modelling, valuation, structuring and sensitivity analyses to support the evaluation and pricing of secondary opportunities

Managing third-party diligence, conducting secondary research, participating with reference calls

Liaising with primary fund research team to assist with the evaluation of lead sponsors, credit portfolios and deal sourcing

Summarizing research into investment memorandums and presenting key findings to the Investment Committee

Managing and maintaining the firm’s internal database, including tracking investments and recording performance

Monitoring clients’ secondary investments and portfolios

Authoring private markets focused research

Participating in business development activities

Qualifications

4-10+ years of experience working with private market secondaries (GP with secondaries practice, fund of funds, institutional investor, private markets consultant, secondaries advisor, etc.)

Strong financial modeling, analysis and underwriting skills

Entrepreneurial mindset with ability to offer new ideas

Ability to handle multiple responsibilities with limited oversight

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Attentive to detail

Ability to think analytically and critically

Strong excel skills

Positive attitude

Team player

Strong work ethic

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