Scott Hammond

*** ******** ******, *** **. New York, NY 10012

acxh2q@r.postjobfree.com 347-***-****

Managing Director – Senior Portfolio Manager, Guggenheim Partners July 2009 to Present

Senior Portfolio Manager for fund families:

Transparent Value ($2.6B) – participated in founding and growing asset management platform from $0 to its current level

Style Plus ($750MM) – replaced legacy managers with an investment structure that seeks to leverages Guggenheim strengths

Global Quant ($850MM) – restructuring a predominantly institutional offering for success in retail-oriented investor base

Manager of a strategic technology group tasked with introducing risk controls, scalability, and efficiency across the firm

Centralization of all quantitative investment modes on segregated production and research platforms

Developed foundation to consolidate numerous silo businesses into a single Guggenheim Equity platform

Reduce key man risk associated with running segregated businesses

Drive superior economies of scale necessary in the highly competitive financial services business

Founded global trading desk for equities business

Ran a competitive bid process and selected provider for an Order Management System (OMS)

Recruited professional with over twenty years of industry experience to head newly formed trading desk

Consolidated duplicative trading efforts to improve presence to “street” and decrease operational overhead

Developed strategic plan for $35B Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) businesses acquired in 2009 (Claymore) and 2010 (Rydex)

Formulated ETF strategy and identified Guggenheim’s relative position and competitive value proposition

Augmented product offering to focuses on “Better Beta” strategies thus leverage dominance in equal weight ETFs

Identified select brokerage companies to serve as strategic partnerships for distribution

Other

Actively involved in sales and marketing efforts – production of sales materials, speaking engagements, publications

Formulation and launch of various products: ETF, UIT, Mutual Fund, Close End Fund, Annuities (including $2B Transparent Value annuity)

One of five global employees responsible for championing Mezocliq – Guggenheim’s multimillion dollar technology effort Vice President – Head of Portfolio Management for Exchange Trade Funds, Northern Trust 2007 to 2009

Launched NETS family of funds a group of 17 ETF’s providing international exposure via local exchanges

Designed and implemented Portfolio Management workflow and systems

Hired and trained team of Portfolio Managers

Managed a team of outside consultants to construct a proprietary ETF system capable of interfacing with Axioma’s risk engine

Collaborated with strategic partners to ensure efficient and risk controlled investment process

Lead ETF education effort to build support from: Operations, Trade Support, Technology, Custody, Sales, Marketing, and Product divisions

Designed and implemented Portfolio Management platform responsible for $400B of institutional assets

Lead quantitative models component of platform build Associate – Portfolio Management, Barclays Global Investors (BGI) 1999 to 2006

Responsible for management of over $90B in institutional pension assets

Maintained adequate risk tolerances and tracking error respective of investment strategy

Monitored portfolio cash flows and respond to corporate actions

Collaborated with Lending group to solicit optimal risk bids from outside hedge fund managers

Floor leader – ensured open communication between institutional and retail management teams as well as with trading desk

Participated in negotiations between BGI trade desk and various brokers

Interpreted and analyzed marketplace information that benefited client’s overall strategies or enhance portfolio Total Returns

Performed quantitative modeling around various corporate and index events. Strategies sought Information Ratios in excess of 2.0 over trade horizons of several days to several weeks. All modeling required statistically significant and imperially sound reasoning, breath of at least 30 observations, a non-deteriorating alpha signal, and implementation feasibility in portfolios with AUM of $10B

Published numerous research pieces on the diversification benefits of alternative asset classes. Research was tailored to some of the largest pooled asset plans in the world and was used as supplement to U.S. Congressional Testimony

Protected BGI’s position of Thought Leadership by acting as a resource to client facing groups in wide array of investment topics

Directed access to senior managers of the iShares sales and marketing force. Routinely presented on aspects of iShare product superiority, and on various investment goals obtainable by long/short iShare positions

Developed content for media outlets and for television interviews given by senior management. Participated in several interviews involving major print media

Technology

Applications: Bloomberg, FactSet, Barra, Axioma Excel, MS Access, TreeAge, Minitab

Programming Experience: Matlab, SQL, SAS, VBA, C Publications, Speaking Engagements and Awards

“Equity Macro Themes,” Guggenheim Partners Investment Outlook, Volume 1 2011

“U.S. Market Commentary,” Currents, a quarterly investment magazine of Barclays

“Real Estate Investing the REIT Way: A Guide to REIT Benchmarks and Investing,” Investment Insights 2005

“Utilizing iShares to Enhance Portfolio Returns and Reduce Stock Specific Risk,” BGI hosted presentation to over 200 investment professionals

George Williams Award, “an exclusive award of Barclays given in situations warranting formal and public recognition” Education

Purdue’s Krannert School of Business: Masters of Business Administration, 2007

University of California Berkeley: Financial Engineering coursework (non-degree) 2004

University of New Hampshire: Bachelor of Arts in Economics - cum laude, Computer Science minor, Athletic Scholarship 1999

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