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4 articles, 2 roles and 2 qualifications.

Writing

An international asset allocation for a billion-dollar fund

A 1993 syndicate assignment: forecast total returns for twelve asset classes across seven markets under five world scenarios, then run them through a mean-variance optimiser and argue with the answer.

Two portfolio management case studies

The Common Fund’s tactical asset allocation scheme, and how Sanford C. Bernstein turned a dividend discount model into a stock selection discipline — written for Applied Portfolio Management in 1993.

Distributed Computing & Risk Management

Our 1990 SunTech Journal article on hedging the risk in an options book, and the distributed trading system we built at Optech to do it on a network of Sun workstations.

Work

1990 — 1991

State Bank Victoria

Treasury Analyst

Pricing exotic options as a Treasury analyst, and maintaining the Treasury management system.

1988 — 1989

Optech International

Systems Analyst

Option pricing and distributed risk management for Tesla, a foreign exchange options trading system built at Optech.

Education

1992 — 1994

Macquarie University

Master of Applied Finance

Awarded the Australian Institute of Bankers Prize, and The Institute Prize for graduating top of the class.