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Nashville, TN, US

Memphis, TN, US

Memphis, TN, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Serve as a subject matter expert on the firm’s active equity investment strategies; respond to investment performance requests for attribution analysis, model and factor performance (IC’s, quintile returns, etc.), fund performance, generalized market/economic data and various other analytics as needed; this may entail calculating various metrics such as.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Utilize Bloomberg, FactSet and sell-side research to conduct fundamental financial analysis, track market movement and assess financial performance of firms involved in contentious vote issues such as M&A and proxy.
• Designed Excel driven, macro-enabled spreadsheets which improved the group’s work flow, process and procedures; Once in place, managed the transition and training of the new procedures to a third-party
• Responsible for performing research and analysis on proxy voting agenda items across SSgA’s investment strategies and holdings; findings were used to determine and support vote decisions which were deemed to be in the.
• Composed summary commentaries of controversial proxy voting items to clarify the issue at hand, SSgA’s vote decision and the rationale behind the decision

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Managed project to consolidate and organize passive and active fixed income product offerings into an up-to-date database detailing key strategy related information
• Successfully executed an overhaul and revision of the firm's global fixed-income AUM records
• Assisted senior staff in providing clients, prospects and consultants with updates on investment process and performance of fixed income products
• Responded to fixed income strategy inquiries from the RFP and relationship management groups

Boston, MA, US

• Conducted channel checks to evaluate investment ideas for long/short hedge funds
• Identified relevant research targets and convinced them to share helpful information to evaluate company fundamentals, catalyst event effects, or checking management assumptions
• Required getting up to speed on a company or industry quickly and working efficiently under tight turnaround times
• Analyzed and organized our research findings into clear and concise updates for analysis and eventual presentation to our clients
• Adjusted to the constantly changing nature of our work – client needs often changed mid-project and this necessitated being able to adapt and produce results

• Directed, supervised, and scheduled a team of twenty-five employees
• Responsible for preparing and administering several line items in the annual operating budget
• Recorded and monitored all expenditures in annual budget accounts
• Directly involved in the reorganization of the Human Resource Department to meet compliance with local, state, and federal regulations
• Assisted in recruitment, hiring, orientation, and training of new employees

M.B.A, Finance

Bachelor Of Science, Plant And Soil Science