Assistant Real Estate

BO PANG

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EDUCATION

Stanford University, Stanford, CA June 2014

Master of Science in Management Science and Engineering (Concentration: Economics and Finance) GPA: 3.8/4.0

● Relevant Coursework: Dynamic Asset Pricing, Advanced Investment Science, Investment Practice, Financial Trading Strategies,

Financial Derivatives, Fixed Income, Credit Risk, Optimization, Dynamic Systems, Operations Management

● GRE Quantitative: 800/800 Verbal: 690/800

Renmin University of China, Beijing, China June 2012

Master and Bachelor of Economics in Quantitative Finance Major GPA: 3.8/4.0

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Major GPA: 3.9/4.0

● Relevant Coursework: Advanced Econometrics, Corporate Finance, Probability, Statistics, Real Analysis, Partial Differential Equations,

Stochastic Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Applied Time Series, Programming

● Awards: National Scholarships, Excellent Graduate Student Scholarships

Yale University summer session, New Haven, CT Aug. 2010

● Coursework: Financial Econometrics, Financial Markets GPA: 4.0/4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sierra Vista Advisors, Santa Barbara, CA Apr. 2014 to present

Part Time Research, Equities and Foreign Exchanges

● Constructed models trading a basket of currencies according to fundamentals, valuation and interest rate carry; conducted backtest to

optimize the model

● Conducted remote research into Chinese equities, focusing on Banking and Real Estate industry

June – Sept. 2013

China Development Bank Capital, Beijing, China

Private Equity Intern, Direct Investment Division

● Involved in US$1 billion project of a logistics firm: initiated due diligence list; participated in investment agreement negotiations

including fund raising, investment structure and exit strategies; drafted assessment report, investment proposal and presentation materials

● Conducted company and industry analysis and composed independent research reports to support potential investment projects;

identified new investment strategies and turned the ideas into reports

Mar. – June 2013

Zolio Inc, San Francisco, CA

Trading and Investment Management Intern, Equities and ETFs

● Built a robust portfolio of US$1 million invested in equities and ETFs and achieved 10.3% profit; created a brief trading journal weekly

Sept. – Dec. 2011

CITIC Securities, Beijing, China

Investment Banking Intern, Natural Resources and Equipment Manufacturing Sector

● Involved in US$100 million A-Share IPO of a manufacturing firm: drafted macroeconomics and industry analysis section of prospectus;

responsible for growth rate projection in DCF valuation; established multiple valuation models

● Modified and assembled pitch books and other discussion materials for different types of deals; created roadshow materials for a US&120

million M&A deal; developed client presentations for upcoming IPO, follow-on, bond issuance activities and non-deal roadshow

LEADERSHIP & ACTIVITIES

2009 and 2011 International Summer School, Teaching Assistant, Renmin University of China Summer 2009 and 2011

● Acted as Teaching Assistant for Prof. Zinai Li (Tsinghua University) on Advanced Econometrics course

Sept. 2010 – Aug. 2011

Investment Banking and Consulting Association, Vice Director, Renmin University of China

● Actively invited Renmin alumni from banking and consulting industry to speak on the monthly career lectures

Winner of Trading Evaluation of Course Finance Trading Strategies, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University Apr. 2013

● Achieved top tier place in both liability trading simulation as proprietary trader and algorithmic trading simulation as market maker

First Prize in Mock Securities Trading Competition (twice), Team Leader, Renmin University of China Dec. 2010 and 2011

● Constructed stock portfolio on Chinese A- share market and achieved highest realized return

RESEARCH & PUBLICATION

Working Paper: A Three Factor Pricing Model of Oil Futures Prices

● Proposed a three latent factor pricing model to improve the universal two factor model and tried to figure out the economic drivers

behind the latent variables, verifying Theory of Storage and Theory of Normal Backwardation

Research Project: Importance Sampling for Portfolio Credit Risk

● Verified a logarithmically efficient importance sampling scheme for estimating the tail of the distribution of the correlated default timing

in a portfolio of firms

SKILLS & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

● Language: Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent)

● Computer: Proficient in Office Suite, C, SAS, STATA, MATLAB, R, Splus, Bloomberg

● Hobbies: Piano, Classic Music, Running, Swimming, Badminton

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