WILLIAM CHOW
Cell: 323-***-****
Email: *************@*******.***
OBJECTIVE: Seeking a position that will utilize my skills, experience and education, allowing me to be
an asset to a company.
EDUCATION: California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
B.S. Business Administration, Finance Concentration
Passed Level 1 on CFA program
COMPUTER SKILLS: APL, Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, Bloomberg, Merrill Lynch Website, Janna, Cosmos, Axys
EXPERIENCE:
NWQ Investment Management, Los Angeles, CA 10/05 –08/10
(Subsidiary of Nuveen Investments)
Equity and Fixed Income Wrap Trader
• NWQ Investment Management AUM is $15 billion in assets.
• Traded and rebalanced portfolios in APL.
• Traded the following sponsors: Lockwood, Pershing, Wedbush, Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo
Select/Overland, Wells Fargo Strategic, Wachovia DMA.
• Created blocks for program trades: Equity and Fixed Income Securities.
• Traded in multi-sleeve programs: Wells Fargo Select/Overland and Wachovia DMA.
• Coordinated with executing brokers to book step-out trades.
• Updated APL models for portfolio holdings and percentage changes.
• Rebalanced new accounts, invested deposits, and raised money for withdrawals.
• Rebalanced transferred in securities and liquidated terminating accounts.
• Performed tax loss/gains trades using GLTM in APL.
• Performed quality control analysis on aggregate portfolio holdings.
• Monitored and coordinated with brokers regarding corporation action activity.
• Updated database (Cosmos) with block trades.
Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management. Los Angeles, CA 11/01 – 10/05
Portfolio Management Associate
• Assisted in managing approximately $1.8 billion in assets at Merrill Lynch Consults Wrap Program
(8500 accounts).
• Used APL to create buy and sell programs.
• Rebalanced new accounts to Small Mid Cap Value model.
• Invested contributions, process withdrawals, and terminate accounts.
• Processed tax trade requests (loss/gains) in APL via GLTM function.
• Monitored and communicated pending trades with trader.
• Interacted with brokers on daily basis to assist in various requests.
• Updated and maintained composites for quarterly portfolio performance.
Oakmont Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 02/99 – 04/01
(affiliated with Trust Company of the West)
Trading Assistant
• Assisted in managing high net worth individuals with assets totaling $400 million.
• Assisted head trader with executing equity and fixed income trades.
• Communicated with various broker to assure settlement of trades.
• Allocated daily trades according to portfolio investment strategy.
• Calculated daily and month end portfolio performance.
• Handled proxy votes and corporation action activity.
• Maintained portfolio accounting system (Axys 3.0).
• Maintained and enforced restricted security trading list for employees.
Mellon Private Asset Management, Los Angeles, CA 01/96 – 02/99
(Subsidiary of Mellon Bank)
Portfolio Manager Assistant
• Assisted in managing high net worth individuals totaling $2 billion in assets.
• Constructed pro-forma cash flows spreadsheet for portfolios.
• Researched, analyzed, monitored equities and fixed income instruments via Bloomberg, First Call,
Baseline, and Value Line.
• Placed buy/sell trades for portfolios.
• Analyzed, monitored, rebalanced portfolios’ asset allocations.
Pattison Commodities, Newport Beach, CA 04/95 – 12/95
Trading Assistant
• Managed the computerized charting and quotation system.
• Assisted in analyzing futures and commodities markets via technical and fundamental approaches.
• Developed a spreadsheet to track the net asset value of trading account.
Kidder Peabody, Newport Beach, CA 06/94 – 04/95
Portfolio Management
• Prepared account summaries displaying gain, loss, income and yield data.
• Prepared time weighted internal rate of return reports.
• Prepared realized gain and loss statements.
• Researched and collected cost basis data, stock splits, spin-offs, and conversions.
• Analyzed investment executive’s trading transaction ledgers and maintained system network data
bank.