Antony Clark, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Home Based, United Kingdom

Leading the Investment Risk Team in supporting the business with its implementation of an effective fund risk management framework by undertaking independent oversight of fund risk management and providing appropriate challenge to investment managers.

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for maintaining LGPS Central's compliance with investment risk related regulatory reporting requirements and to execute effective investment risk management for public and private markets.I sat on various LGPS Central committees, including as a voting member on the Private Markets Investment Committee, overseeing several billion GBP in.

Belbroughton, England, United Kingdom

Researched and executed short term intraday futures strategies across asset classes butprimarily in G7 equity indices and commodities.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Ran numerous complex projects across internal and external teams, most recently delivering MiFID II EMT data across our hedge fund range which involved collaboration with hedge fund managers, IT, operations, management.
• Developed and continually improved the DB Platinum Alternative UCITS and dbalternatives risk monitoring process enlisting the help of IT, legal counsel and external vendors as required.
• Expanded my role to become the designated UCITS expert by keeping abreast of regulatory developments to ensure a robust governance framework and worked with external counsel to understand and overcome regulatory issues.
• Took on the role of fiduciary risk manager for DB's AIFMD compliant hedge fund platform from the outset of AIFMD. This involved understanding the requirements of risk management under the new regulatory regime and.
• Developed a strong relationship with our fund’s trading counterparties to capitalise on new financing arrangements which could improve the efficiency of our hedge funds within the constraints of the applicable.
• Developed models for UCITS hedge funds to track margin and measure counterparty exposure.

London, United Kingdom

• Evaluated and monitored all (non-operational) hedge fund and fund of fund risks by developing bespoke tools in Excel and VBA.
• Investigated the suitability of hedge fund managed account platforms and UCITS wrappers for use at FIM Advisers culminating in a recommendation to the board.
• Presented FIM Advisers' risk management process to current and potential clients.
• Participated in hedge fund due diligence meetings and made investment recommendations to the Investment Committee.

London, United Kingdom

• Participated in the qualitative review of selected funds, producing research notes and presenting potential investments to other members of the investment management committee, many of which were added to the.
• Operated model portfolios and contributed significantly to changes in the investment process as IAM moved from systematic, to active portfolio management techniques.
• Managed IAM's fund linked derivatives programme. Advised senior management of potential opportunities, negotiated terms for new issue launches and monitored the risk of the existing product portfolio with bespoke tools.
• Managed currency risk of all IAM funds, trading FFX contracts as necessary.
• Met with third party software providers and implemented system changes to deliver improved risk management capability.
• Analysed risk characteristics of single strategy funds and fund of funds portfolios using Riskdata's FOFiX multifactor risk management product and implemented a risk management framework using factor analysis.

London, United Kingdom

• Developed derivative strategies to meet investment management objectives and executed equity derivative trades in the market.
• Managed currency risk of Gartmore's hedge funds, which required trading in excess of USD 2bn FFX deals on a monthly basis.
• Managed risk and exposure levels of long-short equity hedge funds and identified shortcomings in the process for development.
• Worked with the head of hedge fund risk management to identify the need for improved front office trading systems and presented a proposal to senior management.
• Developed a procedure to hedge the risk of Gartmore's seed investment in long only funds, hedging market and currency risk where appropriate.
• Standardised prime brokerage agreements across Gartmore's suite of hedge funds, substantially reducing fees.

London, United Kingdom

• Designed, developed and implemented performance reporting procedures for Gartmore's range of long-short equity hedge funds and global macro fund.
• Monitored the performance record of Gartmore's equity, fixed income and cash retail funds, suggesting and implementing procedural enhancements where possible.
• Monitored the tracking error of passive funds versus benchmarks and enhanced procedures to capture corporate actions and index changes.
• Studied for the CFA Charter, passing each level at the first sitting (June 2001, 2002 & 2003).

Bristol, United Kingdom

Trainee Investment Accountant for NatWest Life Assurance non linked products

Bsc, Mathematics

Education record