Portfolio Manager, Family Office

About Blue Trust

Blue Trust provides financial and family-office services through a planning philosophy grounded in biblical principles. Its Family Office platform integrates investments with tax, estate, financial-planning, insurance, and advisory expertise to support ultra-high-net-worth individuals and multigenerational families.

The Role

The Portfolio Manager, Family Office constructs, implements, and monitors sophisticated multi-asset portfolios for UHNW individuals and multigenerational families.

Working closely with Family Office Advisors and the Investment Strategy Group, this person will implement firmwide asset-allocation frameworks while tailoring portfolios to each family’s entities, liquidity requirements, values, risk profile, and long-term objectives. The Portfolio Manager will also provide thoughtful feedback to the Investment Strategy Group based on client needs, portfolio outcomes, and market developments.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports and approximately 10–25% travel.

What You’ll Do

• Construct and manage customized portfolios spanning public and private markets.


• Implement the Investment Strategy Group’s asset-allocation models with appropriate client-specific customization.


• Provide feedback on allocation frameworks and emerging opportunities based on market conditions and portfolio outcomes.


• Diagnose complex investment needs across multiple entities, generations, objectives, and liquidity profiles.


• Design customized portfolio and investment-manager allocations.


• Develop transition plans for newly onboarded assets and legacy portfolios.


• Monitor performance, diversification, liquidity, and risk exposures.


• Conduct ongoing portfolio reviews and rebalancing.


• Source, evaluate, and perform due diligence on external investment managers.


• Integrate alternative and private investments with appropriate sizing and diversification.


• Serve as a subject-matter expert on capital markets, portfolio construction, and the firm’s investment philosophy.


• Explain portfolio positioning, market outlook, and investment decisions clearly to clients and internal stakeholders.


• Participate in client meetings and multigenerational family discussions.


• Coordinate implementation with operations, compliance, custodians, and external partners.


• Partner with tax, estate, planning, and other specialists to deliver holistic family-office solutions.


• Develop investment presentations, educational resources, and thought-leadership materials.


• Maintain the highest fiduciary, ethical, confidentiality, and compliance standards.

Who We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related discipline.


• Approximately 10–15+ years in portfolio management, investment management, alternatives research, family office, endowment, foundation, OCIO, or institutional investing.


• Deep knowledge of global capital markets and portfolio construction across public and private investments.


• Experience managing complex portfolios with multiple entities, objectives, time horizons, and liquidity needs.


• Demonstrated experience serving UHNW families, family offices, institutional investors, or similarly sophisticated clients.


• Strong experience partnering with a centralized investment strategy or research team.


• Sound judgment regarding asset allocation, portfolio customization, manager selection, risk, and liquidity.


• Ability to explain investment philosophy and complex portfolio decisions clearly and confidently.


• Strong interpersonal skills and comfort engaging with multigenerational families.


• High discretion and sensitivity when handling confidential family matters.


• Collaborative approach to working with advisors, specialists, operations, compliance, custodians, and external managers.


• Able to travel approximately 10–25%.


• Able to work respectfully and effectively within Blue Trust’s values-led, faith-based service environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• CFA designation strongly preferred.


• CAIA designation preferred.


• MBA, master’s in finance, or comparable advanced degree.


• Direct family-office or UHNW portfolio-management experience.


• Experience integrating alternatives and private investments into client portfolios.


• Manager sourcing, evaluation, and due-diligence experience.


• Experience transitioning complex legacy portfolios.


• Background working within an institutional research, OCIO, endowment, foundation, or centralized investment-strategy model.

Compensation

• $175k - $225k base with 20% bonus target.

Location & Travel

The position requires approximately 10–25% travel.