• Senior member of a team managing an $8bn bond book for the bank’s Treasury unit. • Responsibility to recommend portfolio weightings (country/sector/credit grade, tenor) and security specific selection, within investment policy constraints.• Global bond remit with emerging markets focus, particularly the GCC region; investment grade and high yield obligors; hard and local currency.• Researched a range of sectors: industrials; banks; utilities; consumer products; energy.• Developed two credit rating models to generate shadow ratings for a variety of issuers, including banks and corporate borrowers. Coded an app in Python to monitor credit spreads.

• Sole credit analyst within 5-person fixed income team, covering both investment grade and high yield markets: sovereign; financial; and corporate obligors from developed and emerging markets, mainly USD and EUR. EM focus: Latam; Russia; Middle East; China; India.• Flexible and self-motivated employee: postings in Geneva (December 2013 – December 2014); Hong Kong (January – May 2015); London (June 2015 – July 2016).

• Solely responsible for presenting investment analysis of Islamic bonds across the credit spectrum (investment grade and high yield) to Investment Committee (voting member).• Coverage includes high yield, rated and unrated corporate issuers; plus sovereigns and financials, for investment in BLME USD Income Fund and BLME Global Sukuk Fund. • Contributing written output to marketing materials; internal weekly markets commentary; and ad-hoc investor pieces resulting in quotations featured in Investment Europe; and Zawya.

• Analysing credit risk of a €1.25bn portfolio of structured credit securities, comprising RMBS; CMBS; Collateralised Debt Obligations; Consumer Asset Backed Securities.• Drafting sector reviews, investment proposals and credit surveillance reports.• Monte Carlo-based analysis of distressed CDOs utilising modelling software ‘CDO Manager’.