Daniel Snowden Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

Strategic Tilting is an important active return strategy for the NZ Super Fund. This strategy alters the Fund’s exposure to broad markets and currencies (such as global equities, rates, commodities and credit). It is a long-horizon, value-based strategy with a very disciplined and systematic investment approach.Core responsibilities:1. Executing the.

Auckland, New Zealand

As Senior Economist, I added value by ensuring economic trends and risks are appropriately factored into the Guardians’ investment and asset allocation decisions. The Economics team forms part of the Asset Allocation team, and works closely with its counterparts, Portfolio Design and Strategic Tilting.Core responsibilities:1. Ensure economic trends and.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for monitoring, analysing and forecasting the economic outlook for ASB, through providing information on the economy, financial markets and monetary policy, enabling both our ASB people and customers to make informed decisions. As a member of the Economics team, I play an important part in analysing and reporting on economic events and.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Generating insight into revenue and cost streams as part of the Commercial Performance and Planning team.
• Generating reports to highlight profitability of various areas, enabling business effective business decisions
• Cost control
• External reporting
• Competitor analysis
• Revenue/cost driversAchievements: Building the budget model and executing it to develop cost and revenue plans for the seven Pacific Island markets. Providing monthly analysis of revenue and cost data to generate.

London, United Kingdom

• Providing real time analysis on Latin American FX, stocks and fixed income markets, using raw market data as well as information from contacts to form and communicate views, strategies and ideas.
• Insight into economic data releases and the impact on markets and future rates decisions.
• Providing daily, weekly and quarterly forecasts for major data releases and rates meetings, backed up with supporting text, such as contributions to the EM monthly/yearly interest rate outlook.
• Managing and training junior staff in all aspects of Emerging Markets analysis as well as systems use.
• Developing the LatAm product. This includes adding greater insight into debt markets, more in-depth articles and more thorough viewpoints.Achievements: Ranked in Bloomberg’s top 5 economists for Brazil in 2012, 2013.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Quoting and dealing FX Spot, Forward and Options across a range of currencies.
• Providing trade ideas, risk management and hedging strategies to large/medium sized firms, institutions and wealthy individuals and executing those strategies at the correct time to maximise returns.
• Writing the daily report sent to clients and market individuals. This contained a guide to upcoming events, reviews of recent market moves and opinion pieces.
• Proactively updating customers on market moves, the drivers behind those moves, and how they can be used to maximise the upside potential, whilst minimising risk.
• Liaising with customers to determine cash flows, budgets and FX hedging requirements in order to implement the correct trading strategy.
• Managing the firm’s position book, deciding when to hold a position and when to close it out, depending on potential customer needs and near term market moves.Achievements: I brought a number of new clients on-board.

London, United Kingdom

• Dealing and quoting FX to a range of corporate customers.
• Liaising with senior management to agree on new sales techniques and customer targeting, providing new ideas to help the sales team reach its target.
• Working with Spot and Forward traders to agree pricing.
• Guiding customers through market moves and upcoming data and events.Achievements: Instigating a more creative and active approach to client sales, analysing the current client database and identifying new sales.

London, United Kingdom

• Providing support for sales and trading though in-depth research, trade ideas and forward-looking event articles, as well as compiling ad-hoc reports on events of specific interest for internal and external use.
• Development and use of models for exchange rate forecasting, includes the use of statistical, fundamental and technical analysis. These forecasts were then distributed to the market

London, United Kingdom

Rotating through a number of sales/trading areas, gaining experience in a variety of roles such as equity sales, ETF sales, corporate bond issuance and government bond trading. I joined the FX team and experienced FX options/forward/spot trading and then becoming a full member of the FX strategy team.

London, United Kingdom

Creating and updating both monthly and ad-hoc reports for financial and non-financial management. Enabling management to make informed decisions as well as making recommendations. Extensive Excel and accounting experience gained.

Master Of Science (Msc), Finance

Options included: Econometrics, Advanced Financial Theory and Corporate Policy, Security Investment Analysis and International Money and.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) (Hons), Economics, 2:1

Options included: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Industrial, Labour and Political economics. Quantitative Methods for.