Manager Project

ADITYA PANDA, FRM

ADDRESS: **** * ******* **** ****, Apt 102, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA

TEL: +1-310-***-****; E-MAIL: ***.*****@*****.***

WORK EXPERIENCE

WESTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY (AUM ~ $450billion) Pasadena, CA

Summer Internship Program, Emerging Markets (EM) Desk Jun 2012-Aug 2012

• Directly supported the EM High Yield portfolio manager (Robert Abad); constructed an investment “screening” tool that helps

to unify the EM sovereign and corporate credit research process; this work contributed to Western Asset winning two mandates.

• Built country, industry and issuer ranking criteria using various sources of fundamental and technical data; required heavy

interaction with Western Asset’s Risk Management and Portfolio Analytics Teams; also included frequent discussions with

rating agencies officials and sell-side index research teams, economists, and bank analysts.

• References and performance evaluation are available upon request.

CREDIT SUISSE AG Singapore

Analyst, Credit Valuations Group Feb 2008 - Dec 2011

• Worked with team lead for Valuations for the EM Product Control Group in studying the nature of the structured lending

business, discussing valuations of bespoke loans to illiquid borrowers and implementing trade specific valuation engines

• Founded a 3-member credit technical focus group for developed markets to provide technical expertise on financial products to

the Credit Product Control Group.

• Conducted training sessions twice monthly for a team of 30 in the Credit Product Control Group on the usage of pricing models

and the Architecture of financial models implemented at Credit Suisse.

• Performed price testing of primary and secondary risk parameters of all products traded in credit flow, prop, structured credit and

EM businesses. Certain key products include: bonds, structured notes, Loans, credit default swaps, credit linked notes, credit

linked asset swaps, FX forwards, bond options, interest rate options.

• Subject Matter Expert in an Operational Excellence Black Belt Project to aid Quarterly Fair Value Leveling Analysis across

major Credit Clusters; build an access database and trained Line Product Control to use it to analyze quarterly balance sheet

numbers.

• Awarded AA & AAA (the highest possible rating) performance rating at Credit Suisse in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

EDUCATION

UCLA ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Los Angeles, CA

Master of Financial Engineering Dec 2012

Applied Finance Project: Studying the behavior of Variance Premium across asset classes and formulating trading strategies.

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Citi Group Project: Portfolio Analytics and Quantitative Strategy Group - Examination of equity trading strategies based on

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Citi’s market liquidity index: https://ir.citi.com/jFjbvH28oMk%2FDJojKjSIgll8y9i5vRyp2Au29IydGdQ%3D

NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Singapore

Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Honors Jan 2008

• Received Dean’s Letter of Commendation and placed in Dean’s List of top performers (top 5% of the cohort).

• Presidents Research Scholar - awarded to the top 3 % of students in the cohort to pursue independent research.

SKILLS

Quantitative: Econometrics, Equity/Interest rate/credit modelling and derivatives pricing, structured credit (developed markets)

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modelling and structured lending (EM) pricing.

• IT Skills: C++, MATLAB, SAS, VBA, SQL, JAVA, Bloomberg, Reuters, Microsoft Applications, Haver Analytics.

• Certification: Financial Risk Manager (April 2010).

• Languages: Fluent in spoken and written English and Hindi.

Immigration Status: Qualified to work for 29 months in USA (12 month under OPT + 17 month under STEM extension)

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