Convertible Bond Trader

-Collaborate with team members on principal-risk book positioning, including whether to enter or exit a trade, appropriate risk exposure levels, effective book hedging, and proper vehicles to express trade view-Created and developed risk analysis systems to better model cross asset and global market risk, including multivariate beta risk models, Value-at-Risk calculations, and trade-specific P&L aggregation-Produce two weekly strategy pieces which are sent to over 1200 clients and Citi employees to assist with their trading-Compile a morning publication, combining a recap of global news articles and insight from Citi strategists and traders,which is distributed to sales and trading desks across assets

-Collaborated with manager to trade convertible bonds in the technology, media, and telecom sector including daily marketmaking, customer order facilitation, and position and risk management-Responsible for the daily reporting and reconciliation of the desk’s P&L between front office and back office systems-Created and distributed a weekly research report highlighting convert benchmarks, large convert and underlying pricemovements, and trade ideas from the desk-Developed 30-page presentation to encourage entry into convertible market by non-traditional investors

-Accumulated subnational expenditure data to use econometric regression methods to analyze capital grant financing-Collaborated bi-weekly with faculty advisors, program administrator and other interns to guide over 250 hours of research on the effect of capital grants on subnational capital expenditures-Paper entitled "Capital Grants: Determinants of Sub National Capital Financing: An Econometric Analysis" publishedonline at http://aysps.gsu.edu/econ/files/ECON_Dever_capitalgrants_summer08.pdf.pdf