Michael Careem, Cfa, Frm Email & Phone Number

Zürich, ZH, CH

Liestal, Basel-Country, Switzerland

Helping BLKB build a scalable asset management operation.

Greater Zurich Area

For a global macro hedge fund managing up to $6B I chaired the risk committee and drove and defended decisions on risk capital allocation within defined policy and procedures.

Greater Zurich Area

I monitored risks and vetted complex instrument valuation models and risk analytics. By enhancing a powerful business intelligence platform, I helped to deliver risk and performance insights to the firm.

Zurich Area, Switzerland

I built and led a team of three performance analysts including the GIPS office. I drove the architecture and build of a robust infrastructure for purveying risk and performance insight. I aligned organisation and processes, deputised for the risk management officer liaising with FINMA, and coached on performance and risk topics.

Greater Zurich Area

I built and led a team that benchmarked, parametrised and vetted instrument valuation models, sensitivities, stress tests, VaR and component VaR in MSCI’s RiskManager™. In a previous role as Head RMF Managed Accounts Risk Management I headed a team of six risk managers for a hedge fund managed accounts platform of $8B. I represented risk management in the.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

I managed up to eight FTEs in a $15M budget risk engine implementation project. Scope was for market risks of the trading book using Algo Market Analytics from Algorithmics with a MtM + add on methodology interface for counterparty credit risks to Risk Vision from MiSys.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Apart from consulting on market risk to various European clients, I led the business teams in large risk engine implementation projects for Australia and New Zealand Bank in Melbourne and later for Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

As part of an Algorithmics integration team, I built interfaces to front and back office systems and configured the analytics engine in enterprise-wide risk management projects.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

I produced covariance matrices, designed estimation and simulation procedures and evaluated their statistical properties. As an Assistant Portfolio Manager I traded futures and managed cash for option-based portfolio insurance strategies. As a Business Analyst I designed data models and drew up specs for risk and return analytics of fixed-income instruments.

Hong Kong

Cas, Data Science, Ects Grade: A - Top Decile (Best Grade Class)

Data Wrangling & Mining, Stats, Machine Learning, Social Network Analysis, Information Visualisation, Information Retrieval & Natural.

Diploma, Mathematical Finance (Part-Time), Degree: Distinction (Best Degree Class)

M Sc, Statistics (Part-Time)

Ba (Hons), Economics And Finance