Valentine Moroz
**************@*****.***
*** ****** ******, ***. **, New York, NY 10002
WORK EXPERIENCE
K2 Advisors - Fund of Hedge Funds
May 2007 – Present
Associate Vice President
-Performing HF due diligence and monitoring high risk investments for daily headline, VaR, P&L and other risk causing stress
events
-Analyzing the macro economic and industry specific environments in context with manager forecasts on the market
-Stress-testing investments by using transparency data, alpha/beta separation and beta-adjusted shock proxying
-Creating risk and investment presentations used for attracting and educating potential institutional investors
-Managing and developing a liquidity tracking system critical to intra-firm capital allocation decisions
-Developing an Excel based market analysis tool used for due diligence, interfacing with internal and external data sources
State Street - Global Bank
FX Trading Strategist / Global Macro Researcher Sept 2006 - May 2007
-Analyzed daily FX-rates, bond spreads and major global economic indicators to predict short term and long term currency trends
-Created robust P&L models in Excel used by FX traders for compiling trading statistics
-Developed Matlab driven models used in forecasting foreign exchange rates by regressing interest rate differentials and bond
spreads
Tripoint Asset Management - Global Macro Hedge Fund
Quantitative Analytics Intern June 2006-August 2006
-Developed, coded and back-tested alpha factors in order to build risk models and optimize possible portfolios
-Tested and simulated the effect of fundamental factors as on overlay for potential production run por tfolios
-Produced and coded standalone buy/sell indicators which aid ed the traders in making real-time investment decisions
EDUCATION
Babson College, Wellesley, MA. Focus GPA: 3.42
Bachelor of Science in Business Management – Class of 2007
Focus in Computational Finance & Quantitative Analysis
Academic Project - Investment Portfolio Competition
-Analyzed the economic environment and identified industry sectors that were in flux and positively positioned for globalization
-Researched companies in chosen sectors, which were undervalued by a selected margin of safety and positioned for industry
changes
-Identified potential portfolio investments based on investor requirements for volatility, return, leverage and asset class exposure
- Optimized the portfolio and sized the investments based on their return profiles, diversification benefits and strength of conviction
Relevant Coursework
Applied Quantitative Modeling, Corporate Finance, Data Structures, Financial & Managerial Accounting, Futures and Derivatives,
Investments Options, Macro and Micro Economics, Probability for Risk Management, Problem Solving and Software Design
SKILLS
Microsoft Office – Excel, Power Point, Access Reporting
Data Analysis Tools – Bloomberg, Capital IQ, FactSet, Mesurisk, PerTrac
Programming – C++, Java, MatLab, SQL, VBA
Finance – Capital Structure Analysis, DCF Valuations, Portfolio Optimization, Volatility/Risk Assessment
Languages – Fluent in Russian; Basic Knowledge of French; Basic Knowledge of Spanish
AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Management – Most profitable T-mobile / Nextel store, T-mobile North America (New England) 2005
Sales – Top sales associate by dollar volume for Aldo North America (New England) 2003
Scholarships – Harvard / MIT Math competition award 2002
Tennis – Top 30 in USTA ranking (New England) for 18 and under 2002
Scholarships – John Hopkins Talented 1% youth award 1998