Benjamin Hurt, Cfa, Msa Email & Phone Number

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Charlottesville, Virginia

• Designing, building, and evaluating quantitative methods using fundamental and market data to create investment screens and strategies• Building full pipelines from collecting raw data through investment selection, back testing, and visualization• Investigating opportunities in the market such as long-term fundamental signals, equity derivative distributions, and the use of LLMs for scalable text consumption and evaluation

Charlottesville, Virginia

• Started a corporate outreach effort to expand sources of funding for the Institute, including building a business contact network, developing marketing materials, and delivering pitches• Led an effort to submit a large National Science Foundation proposal to create a regional entrepreneurial engine at UVA, including acquiring partners, strategic design, and proposal writing• Interviewing Institute scientists to understand and evaluate developed technologies and current efforts to identify areas that might be commercially viable. • Built an internal wiki to track projects and scientist efforts to provide visibility to senior leaders and assist with commercialization idea generation• Innovating, improving, and maintaining COVID-19 forecasting models, including ARIMA, which are included in Biocomplexity’s forecasts provided to the CDC• Program Director of the Computing for Global Challenges summer program including strategic planning, hiring, and mentoring of the participants• Designed and implemented a financial contagion model simulating the spread of a shock through a network of banks, measuring the impact of network structure on the spread and severity of the contagion

Greater New York City Area

• Develop and formalize a more efficient set of procedures for the firm’s Investment Committee including a new voting protocol.• Interface with the portfolio managers to track potential investments in the pipeline and capture relevant data• Attend all Investment Committee meetings to track dialogue, document the meeting, and manage follow-ups• Monitor existing Opportunistic investments to ensure accurate risk and performance data• Synthesize and communicate weekly investment changes and important updates to the CIO and CRO• Contributing member of the Trade Allocation team which determines trade allocation methodologies and ratios

Greater New York City Area

• Monitored daily fund risk using metrics such as capital allocation, performance attribution, and market stresses• Communicated directly with portfolio managers on substantial changes in portfolio risk and risk methodologies• Tracked limit usage and highlight trends to the CRO and the Risk Team• Worked with the CIO and Portfolio Managers to coordinate the beta risk of a fund in wind-down• Verified if the current proprietary risk model framework fits with historical moves and intuition• Reviewed portfolio performance• Special projects such as producing a correlation matrix of investments across the long/short equity fund• Produced and review the day’s risk metrics, like notional or MTM, and summarize the changes for the firm

Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for all regular external reporting for a subset of funds• Covered a select group of high priority investors for all requested data analytics or ad hoc reporting• Developed the data and analytics for the newly opened long/short equity fund • Helped to determine what information was shared with investors• Communicated directly with investors to determine needs and develop custom reports • Served as an expert on externally reported methodologies such as max loss and exposure• Acted as a touch point and knowledge expert to help internal teams answer investor questions

Greater New York City Area

• Produced credit analysis reports with assigned ratings coinciding with formal training from the head of credit• Key contributor to a school district credit analysis project that led directly to portfolio management decisions• Designed and created a knowledge-based research database (wiki)• Created macro-enabled credit templates for municipal sectors• Built excel data sheets for global markets to help the team make currency decisions• Collaborated with portfolio managers on investor-specific projects

Xiangyang, Hubei, China

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Master Of Science - Ms, Analytics, 4.0

Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Optimization, Regression Analysis, Simulation, Network Modeling.

Bachelor Of Arts, History

Activities and Societies: Phi Gamma Delta, Cats Connect Mentoring Program

Financial Accounting

Summer class in Financial Accounting

History And Italian

Syracuse in Florence study abroad program.

Italian

University of Virginia Summer Language Institute - Italian 9 weeks of intensive Italian classes equal to 4 semesters of Italian.