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England, United Kingdom

Global Head of Portfolio Construction & Risk encompassing Portfolio Construction Advisory, Research and First Line Risk Oversight across all public and private asset classes. Established a true cross-asset globally diverse Portfolio Construction capability providing advice to portfolio managers and additional 'eyes and ears' to the CIOs in ensuring portfolios were positioned to meet client outcomes.+ Co-chair of Investment Risk Committees (with the Oversight Team)+ Accountable… Show more Global Head of Portfolio Construction & Risk encompassing Portfolio Construction Advisory, Research and First Line Risk Oversight across all public and private asset classes. Established a true cross-asset globally diverse Portfolio Construction capability providing advice to portfolio managers and additional 'eyes and ears' to the CIOs in ensuring portfolios were positioned to meet client outcomes.+ Co-chair of Investment Risk Committees (with the Oversight Team)+ Accountable Executive on wide ranging programmes to enhance data, analytics and PM tools+ Embedded a stronger risk culture within the Investment Community+ Proven track record in building teams+ Additional responsibilities for Trading Analytics and Investment Management Oversight Show less

London, United Kingdom

Following an explicit separation of 'line 1' and 'line 2' risk moved into an inaugural role within Fixed Income providing portfolio construction advisory to fixed income portfolio managers and CIO.+ Implemented risk budgeting framework across all actively managed portfolios+ Developed First Line of Defence Risk Oversight framework+ Implemented new Capacity Management model+ Ownership of internal Fixed Income pricing library (QAS) and internal risk model

London, United Kingdom

Director within the Investment Risk oversight team providing risk oversight for the Fixed Income and Multi-Asset businesses.+ Chaired monthly Investment Risk Oversight meetings with CIO and senior management+ Developed Fixed Income liquidity risk management framework+ Designed and implemented concentration framework for credit exposures+ Developed proprietary 'active share' framework for fixed income+ Implemented new Value at Risk model including modelling of complex… Show more Director within the Investment Risk oversight team providing risk oversight for the Fixed Income and Multi-Asset businesses.+ Chaired monthly Investment Risk Oversight meetings with CIO and senior management+ Developed Fixed Income liquidity risk management framework+ Designed and implemented concentration framework for credit exposures+ Developed proprietary 'active share' framework for fixed income+ Implemented new Value at Risk model including modelling of complex (uncovered by the vendor) bonds and derivatives+ Presented risk management capabilities to external clients Show less

London, United Kingdom

Joined Fidelity to establish (from scratch) an integrated fixed income performance attribution and risk reporting team. Grew the team to support an evolving global fixed income business providing analytical input to the investment process and developed the attribution process from a 'tick-box' monthly exercise for a handful of funds to one inputting into portfolio manager meetings and covering all funds managed using a bespoke in-house developed toolkit.

London, United Kingdom

Joined Threadneedle as a graduate and spent a number of years within the quantitative research team. During my time there this variously encompassed performance attribution, asset allocation implementation, risk management and quant research. Among my achievements and experiences included:+ Built daily performance attribution system from scratch utilising internal and external data sets+ Co-designed and implemented proprietary risk infra-structure, database and (daily) risk… Show more Joined Threadneedle as a graduate and spent a number of years within the quantitative research team. During my time there this variously encompassed performance attribution, asset allocation implementation, risk management and quant research. Among my achievements and experiences included:+ Built daily performance attribution system from scratch utilising internal and external data sets+ Co-designed and implemented proprietary risk infra-structure, database and (daily) risk reporting and management framework across all asset classes+ Daily risk analysis for the 'Crescendo' range of hedge funds (Equity and Fixed Income) and absolute return UCITS vehicles+ Equity, Fixed Income and Multi-Asset portfolio construction Show less

Msc Management

Msc, Economics & Statistics