Quantitative Analyst
Nashville, Tn, Us
• Risk Oversight: Firm-wide risk oversight across all equity and multi-asset portfolios◦ Carried out research on Barra factor model to provide insights and intuitions to PMs, ensured a full range of risk control, from thetargeting and budgeting of total active risk to performance attribution.◦ Led a project with IT developers to fully automate risk reporting processes, improved work efficiency by 80%.◦ Refined MSCI Riskmetrics stress test model by reasonably shrinking idiosyncratic risk to industry-level, enhanced model stability.• Market Trends Monitor: Fully automated web crawler◦ Built a web crawler that scraped index prices and news headlines for worldwide equity, bond, commodity and currency; auto-compiledand emailed overviews and heads-up to risk managers before market opens.◦ Integrated Support Vector Machine to classify news headlines into categories, resulting in 98% of accuracy compared to humanjudgement.• Risk Data Visualization: Interactive web applications with easy access to portfolio risk profiles◦ Developed a web application using Python Dash, brought portfolio attributes and other insights to PMs’ fingertips.◦ Led a project and coordinated IT team to build a data pipeline from MSCI Barra server to local database which facilitated factorresearch and data visualization (R shinny, Python Dash and Power BI).