Karyn Ho Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Total Portfolio Rebalancing• Manage total portfolio cash movement, strategy funding, currency rebalancing and asset mix rebalancing activities for the GIC portfolio• Oversee and run operational activities to generate the trading numbers used by Portfolio Managers and Treasury to hedge and rebalance GIC's total portfolio• Provide extensive consultation to Investment Business Managers in the execution of enterprise-wide initiatives - from portfolio restructuring to strategy… Show more Total Portfolio Rebalancing• Manage total portfolio cash movement, strategy funding, currency rebalancing and asset mix rebalancing activities for the GIC portfolio• Oversee and run operational activities to generate the trading numbers used by Portfolio Managers and Treasury to hedge and rebalance GIC's total portfolio• Provide extensive consultation to Investment Business Managers in the execution of enterprise-wide initiatives - from portfolio restructuring to strategy funding, decommissioning and mergers• Leverage on data and analytical tools to analyse and validate monthly currency rebalancing signals for Treasury's execution• End-to-end planning and execution of Straight-Through-Processing system enhancements to increase rebalancing system's capabilities of supporting higher volume strategy funding and cash movement activitiesBeta Asset Replication Operations and Support• Provide order management services to the Beta Asset Replication Portfolio Managers for intra-month and month-end trading activities Show less

Rebalancing Operations (August 2018 - Present)• Execute monthly and quarterly total portfolio currency and asset rebalancing operations• Partner portfolio managers and business managers in strategy/portfolio consolidation initiatives, enterprise-wide policy changes and other large-scale implementations• Facilitate the cash funding and withdrawals of active strategiesProduct Management and Network• Managed over 25 new product assessments to enable front office… Show more Rebalancing Operations (August 2018 - Present)• Execute monthly and quarterly total portfolio currency and asset rebalancing operations• Partner portfolio managers and business managers in strategy/portfolio consolidation initiatives, enterprise-wide policy changes and other large-scale implementations• Facilitate the cash funding and withdrawals of active strategiesProduct Management and Network• Managed over 25 new product assessments to enable front office teams to leverage on investment alpha opportunities.• Management reporting on new products assessments, weekly status reports and other key management reports.• Worked closely with Business Managers of GIC's portfolio managers in product analysis and managed the end-to-end process of stakeholder assessment of new products to CIO and CRO assessment and approval, to the enhancement completion to support new products.• Developed the new streamlined product assessment process for faster time-to-market• Managed accounts and custodian relationships in various markets, involving account administration, QFI applications, client KYCEFM Operations and Reporting• Analysed and identified a USD200,000 p.a. operational alpha opportunity through voluntary corporate action events through historical data mining and analysis• Managed EFM asset transition (securities and cash) programs with over USD100 million in value, including the inception, termination, withdrawals and top-ups of GIC's panel of EFMs• Negotiated over 10 newly-appointed EFM performance fee schedulesGIC Professionals ProgrammeJoined GIC as part of the GIC Professionals Programme - Business Professionals track.This included three 9-week rotations in the following departments/teams:1. Investment Services - Equities Corporate Actions2. Finance - Finance and Accounting (Fund Operations)3. Private Equities and Infrastructure - Investment Services Management Show less

• Screening of programming errors in an internal CV data cleansing project• Coordinated candidate interviews, filed employee records and other administrative duties

• Wrote analytical reports on salient consumer complaint trends to advance effective monitoring• Processed consumer complaints into the division’s database to expedite the team’s case follow-up• Updated daily spreadsheet records of cases which facilitated case officers’ effective tracking• Co-ordinated and hosted department gatherings• Assisted in editing and creation of MoneySENSE consumer guides and educational brochures