Chris Apostolou Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Global Vacancies in Markets, Finance & Economics:www.arbitrage-search.comUK +44 203 823 4541USA +1 786 818 2350 (and whatsapp)please follow @ArbitrageSearch on XPlease send CV in WORD!previous placements examples:Head of Asia StrategyHead of FX StrategyHead of Australia EconomicsHead of G10 EconomicsUK EconomistSectoral EconomistChina AnalystBond StrategistCommodity Modeller, Head of DivisionFX StrategistStatistical Arbitrage PMLatam StrategistPolitical AnalystchrisA@arbitrage-search.com

Trained in retained search & using telephone based head-hunting to locate candidates otherwise unknown to the market. Worked on both retained and contingent global mandates... I never used linkedin!- Economists, Analysts, Portfolio Managers, Quants

Model building for top-down macroeconomic models, quantitative models and bottom-up valuation models. eg credit spreads model, equity premium model etcProduced a daily global macro indicator which leads PMI surveys (using real data not market prices).Advising on cost of capital issues, asset allocation & valuation and macroeconomic forecasting.Scenario modelling in DSGE & Black-Litterman models, producing optimal portfolios and advising on TAA.Preparing research for the renowned Monetary Policy Forum.www.fathom-consulting.com

Analysing corporate bonds and giving buy/sell recommendations. Covered everything from high grade names such as ITV, Cadburys to fallen angels like Motorola and firms which defaulted such as Harrahs. Always on the right side of calls thank goodness...Except the company I actually worked for!

Travelling & studying Spanish.Lived for 6 months in Valencia, Spain & 3 months in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Attended full-time Spanish classes for 6 months and anything to avoid work.I recommend www.babylon-idiomas.com for anyone considering learning Spanish in Spain/Argentina.

TMT focus, covering fixed-income origination, sales and trading.Some sovereign bond coverage, particularly building models to swap East European bonds back in to live euro price equivalent yields etc. Advising on our £2bn loan in the £16bn Telefonica takeover of o2.Developed a very popular Payrolls forecasting model, which was occasionally right even when outside of the consensus range. I think I was the first person to use PMI survey!Training with credit rating agencies: Corporate Credit Analysis, Financials Analysis, High Yield Analysis.Fixed Income Trainee programme: Correlation desk (eg Nth to default baskets), Govvie market-making, DCM, macro prop., Syndication, Sales, Research, Yen credit desk, repo trading.

Assisting UK Economist. Covering BoE rate changes, researching house prices, equity markets, inflation etc2nd in the intern trading day simulations held at ISMA centre.

Full Stack Bootcamp, Passed

Activities and Societies: Full Stack bootcamp in person, which had to finished online due to covid! (Miami)Final project was a ML child.

Bsc, Economics, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Treasurer for Raising And GivingEconomics

Portuguese For Spanish Speakers

Activities and Societies: ~ 60% of Portuguese is the same as Spanish. 30% has the same origin, 10% is totally different. Also, Portuguese.

Spanish

Activities and Societies: Spanish, from absolute beginner to 'Upper Intermediate'Studied in Valencia, Sevilla & Buenos Aires.