Management Manager

Alain Castro

Email: *********@*****.***

Address: **** ** **** **

City: Miami

State: FL

Zip: 33144

Country: USA

Phone: 305-***-****

Skill Level: Senior

Salary Range: 95000

Willing to Relocate

Primary Skills/Experience:

CFA, Advent, Bloomberg, Analysis

Educational Background:

Job History / Details:

ALAIN CASTRO, CFA

6620 SW 12th St Miami, FL 33144 305-***-**** *********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Over 8 years in the financial services industry with exposure in areas such as analysis, operations, technology, trading and compliance. Ability to take initiative and possess the competencies and confidence to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in demanding and deadline driven environments. Adept at translating business needs into technology solutions.

PROFICIENT APPLICATIONS

Microsoft Office Suite

Advent Axys / APX

Moxy C++/VBA

Mathematica/Matlab HTML/XML/Dreamweaver

SPSS / SAS /STATA

Bloomberg (API)/Factset /Zephyr StyleAdvisor/ Northfield / Morningstar Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HB ASSET MANAGEMENT LC/ HENCORP MIAMI, FL Aug 2011 Dec 2012

REPORTING OFFICER /INVESTMENT ANALYST

Optimize clients portfolios in the efficient frontier.

Analyze performance vs. benchmark across our set of managers using measures such as information ratio, volatility, correlations, style drift, performance attribution and other risk/rewards measures.

Performed manager due diligence and met with fund family reps to keep abreast of new trends/products development for UMA, SMA, hedge funds and mutual funds.

Participate in periodic monthly, quarterly, and annual conference calls/seminars with managers.

Attend client meetings to review client s portfolio performance and propose tactical changes to current allocation.

Rebalance clients portfolios to specific mandates.

GFG CAPITAL, LLC MIAMI, FL Jan 2010 Aug 2011

CLIENT REPORTING ADMINISTRATOR / ANALYST

Created daily procedures and supervise the daily posting of transactions in securities, pricing errors, rejects, account opening and closing, cost basis reconciliation, corporate actions, and monthly position reconciliation in Axys for ACD and manual accounts in conjunction with consulting team (CSSI).

Optimized daily operational activities such as writing/modifying Axys scripts, recording report macros for the creation of general and custom monthly reports for all clients and created custom Axys reports for all other departments of the firm.

Supervised team in outsourcing consultant company.

Automated and enhanced client reporting by implementing and maintaining the firm s secure client reporting website portal to upload clients monthly statements.

Communicated with clients, brokers, accountants and custodians for special requests related to trading, taxes, management fees, and performance.

Assisted trader for Moxy rebalancing for all of our accounts under specific mandates.

Negotiated and requested external quotes from various companies for consulting work to continuously improve productivity and data integrity.

Calculated and analyzed investment performance for portfolios and composites. Maintained indexes/benchmarks in Axys.

Used Zephyr StyleAdvisor to optimize the asset allocation for client s portfolios.

Maintained GFG s website.

TRILLIUM ASSET MANAGEMENT CORP BOSTON, MA Aug 2006 May 2010

OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE / QUANTITATIVE ANALYST

Reconciled daily transactions and position history from several custodians in Axys/APX.

Assisted in updating the monthly run for optimal portfolios (Opti Models) using Northfield Optimizer for various models using the proprietary alpha model for equities and sectors. Posted optimal trades into APX.

Updated the holdings, alpha scores, Schwab Scores, Ford VMO scores and technical scores for the month end model optimization run.

Attended weekly meetings with the Investment Management Committee to discuss updates on new investment ideas, stock updates, economic updates, model updates and other issues related to the company s investments.

STATE STREET CORP QUINCY, MA July 2004 Aug 2006

INCOME CONTROLLER / STOCKLOAN SPECIALIST

Claimed domestic and foreign cash dividend from 3rd party brokers with shares on loan, ADRs and Federal Reserve bonds.

Ensured the validity of claims to determine the client s entitlement processed by the income system with loan positions as of record date by considering all relevant information that any given security/fund/broker combination will entail, namely, dividend rates, late trading, reallocation of assets, tax regulations, elections, options, loan positions and market tendencies.

Researched and resolved broker discrepancies and interdepartmental inquiries such as overpayments, underpayments, tax discrepancies, share position, dividend rate discrepancies, unadvised wires, unpaid or overpaid dividends, interest, and custody vs. accounting exceptions.

AWARDS

Northeastern University representative to William Lowell Putnam International Mathematics Competition in 2000.

2001 LaCla Scholarship winner at Northeastern University. Only awarded to 10 Hispanics at Northeastern University per year.

EDUCATION

MASTER OF ARTS ECONOMICS 2004-2007, CUM LAUDE

Northeastern University Boston, MA

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - MATHEMATICS 2000-2004 (MINOR IN ECONOMICS), CUM LAUDE

Northeastern University Boston, MA

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CFA charterholder, member of CFA Miami Society

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