Siew Ping Choo Email & Phone Number

Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Investment Risk Governance1.1 Establish, maintain, and administer the implementation of policies and procedures to: -• Ensure appropriate investment risk management, where applicable.• Detect and prevent investment risks events and non-compliances against all applicable legal and regulatory requirements and Group standards.• Provide support to the Management to ensure that they establish appropriate governance framework and internal control systems on investment risk functions for meeting regulatory obligations and high standards of business conduct in accordance with all applicable regulatory requirements and Group standards.1.2 Keep abreast of changes to all applicable regulatory requirements, Group standards and requirements together with relevant industry developments pertaining to investment risk.2. Portfolio Risk Oversight• Monitor institutional clients’ risk profile to ensure adhere with investment mandate.• Prepare monthly institutional clients and risk reporting.• Prepare and analyse funds’ risk profile, liquidity, and credit rating in the monthly portfolio risk oversight meeting with investment team.• Prepare, analyse, and deliberate the portfolios’ risk profile, performance and risk attribution of funds that do not meet Investment Discipline Framework (IDF) threshold in the quarterly risk oversight reporting and meeting with investment risk team and Head of investment in Eastspring Investments Singapore (EISG) together with investment team in Eastspring Investments Malaysia (EIMY).• Deliberate the portfolios’ risk and performance in quarterly Risk Management Committee (RMC) and Investment Committee (IC) meetings.• Quarterly funds specific reporting and Red Amber Green reporting.• Prepare portfolio risk budgeting and monitoring the portfolio’s utilization of the risk budget.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Fund Management• Manage Feeder Funds, Fund-of-Fund, Exchange-Traded-Fund (ETF) and passive institutional mandates as per investment strategy that best fit the investment guideline as outlined in prospectus and investment agreement.• Manage index fund by buying or selling stocks within the index to closely match the sector weightings of the underlying index.• Comment on fund manager reports and monthly fund fact sheet.• Liaise with Beijing counterpart for stocks trading and cash allocation.• Manage funds that always act in the best interest of client.2. Fund Manager Due Diligence• Perform thorough due diligence on new fund selection based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria.• Due diligence on new investment opportunities and implementing value creation.• Monitor the performance of externally managed and target funds.• Spearhead the annual due diligence exercise on existing target funds.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Performance Measurement & Attribution• Report monthly regional retail funds, ETF, Fund-of-Funds, Feeder Funds & Index Funds' performance.• Track funds’ performance & explain the causes of out/underperformance & risk variation to external clients using performance & risk attribution.• Prepare funds’ performance, equity performance attribution upon request.2. Portfolio Risk & Risk Attribution Analysis• Integrated risk attribution & performance attribution into single platform.• Prepare ex-ante risk attribution & ex-post risk to help fund managers & external clients understand the level & the contribution of volatility. • Analyse in-house equity liquidity.• Prepare derivative exposure, equity active bets & back-testing model portfolios.3. Provide Technical Support to Retail & Institutional Marketing departments• Answer due diligence questionnaires from Institutional Unit Trust Agents (IUTA), Singapore's prospective clients & Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).• Analyse peers’ fund performance for the launching of new feeder fund, fund-of- funds, etc.• Showcase funds' track record in Request for Proposals (RFP) & fund award submissions.4. Prepare Monthly Investment Committee Report• Comment on risk variation for flagship & outlier funds.5. On Going Projects• Coordinate inter-departments discussion on indices, performance & risk analysis system.• Negotiate commercial terms & liaise with vendors on indices, performance & risk analysis system.• Conduct User Acceptance Test (UAT) for performance & risk measurement systems.• Review performance or risk systems & present the findings to management.6. Process Engineering• Continuous improvement of performance & risk work flow via automation.• Implement new reporting functionalities to broaden the scope of portfolio analytics.7. Training • Guide junior colleagues & interns. • Walk through performance, performance attribution, risk & analysis process to clients on short term attachment.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Analysed • Risk attribution report of institutional and retail funds to explain causes of contribution to volatility.• Ex-post risk statistic to understand the level of volatility.• In-house equity liquidity position.2. Reported derivative exposure to regional head office.3. Maintenance of composite performance.4. Structured funds’ modelling.5. Supported investment team, marketing / external client via ad-hoc performance and risk reporting

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Analysed anomalies of retail and institution funds’ performance against benchmark and peers.2. Developed and maintained retail and institution funds’ composite performance.3. Conducted performance attribution to analyse cause of funds' out/underperformance against benchmark.4. Set up database to store historical monthly performance data to ease the production of ex-post risk statistic reporting.5. Prepared ex-post risk report for fund managers and external clients.6. Valuation of index and structured funds.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Reported the performance of retail and institutional portfolios to fund managers and external clients.2. Compiled peers performance comparison of all retail and Investment-Linked (IL) funds in the industry.3. Analysed Quarterly Watson Wyatt MIP & Mercer Composite Survey for peer’s performance comparison.4. Monitored Quarterly Asset under Management (AUM) vis-à-vis asset management industry and unit trust industry for peer comparison.5. Executed money market placement and ensured compliance through close monitoring of money market risk exposure and placement limit.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Monitored the performance of all in-house and externally managed Life & Investment-Linked (IL) funds to alert fund managers of funds’ performance variations.2. Conducted performance attribution to analyse cause of funds' out/underperformance against benchmark.3. Compiled peers’ performance comparison of all IL funds in the insurance industry. 4. Coordinated with other departments in preparing Investment Linked Funds' Annual Reports, Fund Fact Sheets and Investment Committee Reports.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Analysed sales force performance based on Key Performance Indicator Tracking System (KPITS) result and the usage of Integrated Customer Information File (ICIF).2. Competitor analysis.3. Trained sales force in End to End Credit System (ETECS), ICIF, KPITS.4. Enhanced sales and customer service via coordination with business owners of sales force IT system (E-Advisor, HLPS/HFPS). 5. System administrator of KPITS, ICIF and ETECS.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1. Analysed performance of all Southern Bank’s branches.2. Analysed monthly Special Housing Loan, Housing Loan, MRTA and Capital Guarantee Account Reports.3. Recommended policy changes for greater efficiency.4. Assisted manager in overseeing Strategic Planning Division, comprising Business Planning & Policy and Product Sales.5. Competitor analysis.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Honours) Finance, Finance, General

Advanced Ri Analysis

Modules 9 (Funds Management Regulation) And 10 (Asset And Funds Management)