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Manager Management

Location:
Madison, WI
Posted:
February 28, 2014

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JOHN C. GAMBLE, CFA

**** ******* *** ( Waunakee, Wisconsin 53597

608-***-**** ( accwb6@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR MANAGER: Investment, Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Risk Management

Accomplished professional with history maximizing profitability,

performance, and ROI while minimizing costs, risks, and losses for major

companies with multimillion-dollar portfolios and billions in assets.

Drives growth and success during times of both prosperity and economic

crisis by spearheading quantitative analysis, strategic planning, and high-

impact improvements. Enables clear visibility and optimal efficiency by

leveraging latest tools, technologies, and techniques to develop innovative

processes, systems, and best practices. Identifies and tackles key issues

and opportunities for enhancement across all business areas by serving as

expert in investments, asset allocation, derivatives, new product

development, and beyond. Builds powerful teams and relationships that

create solid foundation from which all business can flourish.

Quantitative Analysis ( Strategic Planning ( Investment Portfolio

Management ( Risk Management ( Asset Allocation ( Derivatives ( Performance

Measurement and Attribution ( New Investment Product Development ( Multiple

Project Management ( System & Process Development ( Quantitative

Applications ( Staff Training ( Asset Liability Management

GAMBLE CONSULTING, Waunakee, Wisconsin ( 1/2010 - Present

Firm providing full range of support for investment companies with focus on

risk management, portfolio management, and asset allocation, etc.

Chief Consulting & Executive Officer

Consult with, advise, develop, and manage custom solutions for multiple

national branded companies; focus on solving investment related

opportunities and problems, specifying solutions, enhancing returns, and

coordinating with IT to implement solutions. Analyze costs of static and

dynamic monthly operations figures. Perform analysis of institutional

retirement plans with regards to asset allocation, risk management,

performance attribution, and model portfolio construction. Serve as Funds-

of-Funds Analyst providing selection, due diligence, and reporting on

various fund-of-funds strategies including for mutual funds and hedge

funds. Select and provide expert oversight of wide range of hedge funds,

fund-of-funds, private equity, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and equity

investments. Administer asset allocations for high net worth clients.

Investigate and implement Private Equity investments for clients.

Achievements:

. Built and continually grow loyal client and referral bases, providing

high-impact analyses and optimizations of investments, portfolios, asset

allocations, risk management, and returns.

. Managed discretionary and non-discretionary 401(k), 403(b), and 457

retirement plans for wide range of clients including $2.2B state deferred

compensation (457) account.

. Increased efficiency of trading and reporting for client, while reducing

net costs for trading strategies, developing and implementing new

derivative system.

. Eliminated clients' fixed income attribution process and reporting

errors, developing new comprehensive system enabling accurate investment

performance calculations, as well as "what if" scenario testing; included

complete new set of performance reports.

. Designed new optimized portfolio asset allocation process for client

including clear steps for implementation of investment changes, and

managing all trading activities for re-balance.

CUNA MUTUAL INVESTMENT COMPANY, Madison, Wisconsin ( 2/2000 - 12/2009

Insurance company marketing $10B in investments and insurance products via

credit union systems.

Senior Risk Manager

Managed multiple aspects for CUNA including, but not limited to, $8B asset

allocation for insurance accounts and subsidiaries, $300M international

government bond portfolio, risk management related projects, derivatives,

fixed income allocation, and international portfolios including $80M

Australian fixed income portfolio. Staffed, developed, and directed

Quantitative Strategies team. Updated strategic allocation, tactical

ranges, risk reporting, performance reporting, performance attribution

process, and benchmarks for each asset class. Designed and implemented

fixed income relative value models. Served as Fund-of-Funds Analyst for

MCA's investments; managed all asset allocation decisions, contractual

negotiations, due diligence, reporting, compliance, and external manager

relationships.

JOHN C. GAMBLE, CFA ( Page 2 ( accwb6@r.postjobfree.com

Achievements:

. Increased returns and profitability each year, providing annual review,

update, and optimization of $8B asset allocation.

. Maximized visibility into each fixed income asset class under numerous

scenarios, as well as impact of total return, developing fixed income

risk management system enabling analysis and stress testing of total risk

and subcomponents.

. Created 1st investment package to keep Australian clients informed,

developing 1st investment policy for CUNA's Australian-based portfolios,

creating asset allocation for each segment of Australian business,

defining target risk factors, and performing trades to rebalance

portfolios.

. Maintained company earnings within optimal range, while keeping currency

exposure from amplifying earnings volatility, designing and implementing

currency risk management process; utilized currency futures to control

total risk exposure for CUNA.

. Championed successful complex development of Equity Indexed Annuity

product for CUNA, managing all aspects of product build using various

tools, and directing seamless product launch.

LINCOLN FINANCIAL GROUP (LFG), Fort Wayne, Indiana ( 1/1984 - 2/2000

Insurance and Investment Company.

Risk Manager & Programmer Analyst - Investment Division

Conducted asset liability management research, investment analysis, and

risk management process development in support of company's $22B investment

holdings. Led development of various applications and enhancements in

support of pension, annuity, life, and investment product lines. Managed

business analysis, design, coding, testing, and systems installations.

Achievements:

. Fixed multiple problems in investment risk reporting process, analyzing

existing risk reports, incorporating feedback from team, and developing

new process including for each investment type.

. Developed new and enhanced annuity and life reports for business users,

managing all phases from scoping to coding, testing, and delivery of

complex user-friendly reports with new metrics.

. Cultivated and led high-performance 6-person IT team, providing team

motivation, project planning, status tracking, reviews, and evaluations.

. Instrumental in ensuring smooth business operations following start of

new millennium, managing +100 internal and external people in complex

~$3M 12-month Y2K project; achieved 100% success.

NOTE: Volunteer & Guest Speaker - Applied Securities Investment Education

Program, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Madison, Wisconsin (2007 - to Present).

Details on request.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS

Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Business Analysis (Cum Laude)

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Chartered Financial Analyst

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Investment Analyst Society of Madison, Wisconsin

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SQL ( PLC ( FORTRAN ( Excel ( VBA ( Word ( PowerPoint ( Adobe Professional

( GRG Optimizer Access ( COBOL ( JCL ( PerTrac ( Bloomberg Analytics (

Derivative Solutions Fixed Income Manager @RISK ( HighLine Insurance

Analyst Pro ( FINCADXL ( MORNINGSTAR ( MORNINGSTAR Principia

( INTEX ( Merrill Lynch Index & Portfolio Management System ( BondEdge (

YieldBook ( Zephyr

( Moody's Credit Market Implied Rating system ( Pam for Securities (

Wilshire Atlas ( Wilshire Axiom (

Barclays (Lehman) Analytic Analysis Tools: Index series, Time Series

Plotter, and Credit Analytical Toolkit



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