JOHN SHEN, CFA
NY USA 1-475-***-**** ad0gyf@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-shen-9ab4b27/
•Over 25 years of expertise in asset management, leading various key functions such as PM, CIO, CRO, and COO.
•Led and successfully designed the controls for investment, risk, and operation processes.
•Proven ability in leading and mentoring multiple departments, as well as collaborating with all key stakeholders.
•Strategic asset allocation for insurance firms and experience in asset liability match, Solvency 2, and IFRS17.
•Strategic roles in M&A, operation spin-off, and direct real estate and PE investment.
Global Strategic Insight Leadership & Team Building Market and Operation Risk Control
Project Management Product Development Investment Allocation & Research
Market Insights Budget Management Negotiation
Oct. 19 – Present Horizon Vision Capital Advisor LLC (New York, USA) Chief Investment Officer
Set family office fund to invest in SPAC. Have invested in over 30 direct private equity investments and projects, the majority in real estate. Responsible for due diligence and portfolio management.
Nov. 15 – Aug.19 ANBANG OVERSEAS HOLDING (Hong Kong) Deputy CRO Direct the global market and operational risk control process. Champion multiple systems integrations to create synergy. Implement domestic and international investment strategy, and lead the quantitative initiative for big data, asset allocation, multi-factor quant model, etc. As a member of the investment committee provided investment advisory and risk analysis.
COO, Board Member of ABL GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT (Seoul, Korea, a division of Anbang) Sep. 17 – Aug.19 In charge of all business initiatives and operations for the managed groups including Risk, Operation, Finance, HR, and IT teams, around 50 staff under management, direct managing 5 people.
Re-organize the previous Allianz Global Investment Korea AGI Korea with AUM USD 10 billion.
•Managed smooth transition with over 35% turnover and 10% headcount deduction.
•Sit on the Investment Committee and approved direct investment of over USD 200 million
•Successfully sell the company to achieve over 3x gains for the shareholders by saving cost and adding value addition service.
•Invest in products including real estate mess fund, infrastructure, structured products, etc. in USA and European markets.
CRO, Board Member of ACTIAM NL (Amsterdam, a division of Anbang) May 16 - Aug. 17 Responsible for the re-organization of Europe asset investment entities with over 60 billion EUR under management.
•Led the negotiation to spin off the mid-back office of 55 personnel to BNP, achieving over 2 million EUR in annual savings.
•Sit on the Investment Committee and approve major investments of over 300 million EUR.
•Proposed a plan for merging with Fidea and Bank Nagelmackers’ investment division to create synergy.
•Lead alternative investment on PE, hedge fund, and real estate investment.
Mar. 14 – present FRONTIER CAPITAL LLC (Hong Kong / Atlanta USA) Founding Partner (inactive) Raised $15 million and invested in commercial office buildings and multi-family complex in Atlanta, Georgia USA. Current annual net cash flow return is over 12% and asset value appreciation is over 25%.
Oct. 11- Jan. 14 CHINA EVERBRIGHT LIMITED (165.HK, Hong Kong)
Chief Investment Officer, Management Committee Member, Head of Absolute Return Investment
Champion the development and implementation of a 20-member team consisting of operations, trading, risk, and portfolio analytics positions. Successfully built a multi-strategy, multi-asset class hedge fund platform from conception, including designing quantitative modeling, risk control, and asset allocation for funds.
•Demonstrated vision and capability to recruit and manage 7 PMs covering convertible arb, credit long short, equity relative value, volatility arb, event-driven, macro, and systematic trading strategies.
•Grew the AUM from zero to $100 million and with pending $100 million.
•Achieved annualized return of 8.7% with a Sharpe rate of 1.8.
Apr.06- Aug.11 CHILTON INVESTMENT COMPANY (NYC & Greenwich, CT, USA)
Senior Vice President, Head of Risk and Quant
Built a five-person risk and quant team from scratch for the 6-billion hedge fund. Conducted periodical reviews of risk exposure, performance, and risk attribution with PMs, as well as suggested investment strategies to optimize risk-adjusted return.
•Launched a highly successful multi-strategy fund by optimizing key positions from the firm’s 5 strategy funds.
•Created a UCITS fund based on this multi-strategy fund to set the footprint of the retail market in Europe.
•Built alpha model to hedge firm-wide market risk. Managed a short basket once over $1 billion.
•Built a proprietary macro, fundamental, and technical factor-based model to monitor the portfolio, as well as create alpha.
•Built a proprietary risk system to monitor daily risk for the firm.
•Built models for monitoring factors and back-test investment ideas.
Additional Experience:
2 yrs US Risk Head 8 billion multi-strategy hedge fund, Cheyne Capital, London/New York
5 yrs Fund Manager / Head of Quantitative Research Rochdale Investment Management, New York Portfolio Strategist Aeltus Investment Management (current ING), Connecticut
Research Associate Paine Webber (current UBS), New York Project Leader, Data Analytics Reuters America, Connecticut
Master in Business Administration, Finance, and International Business
Columbia University – New York, New York
Master in Science, Electrical Engineering
The Cooper Union – New York, New York
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
The Cooper Union – New York, New York
Professional Training
Executive Education, High Potential Leaders Program – Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
Finance: Financial budgeting and planning, structured products, linear and nonlinear multifactor modeling, VAR, relative value, technical analysis, and micro, and macroeconomics
Quantitative: Statistical, stochastic analysis, time series analysis, Monte Carlo simulation and optimization Computer: Expert in C++, VB, Excel, Barra, Compustat, and Bloomberg
Knowledge of SQL, Factset, SPSS, and Python
China alternative team of International Math Olympiads, Fluent in Mandarin
Responsible Officer of Longhill Capital Management LLC, Hong Kong
Hong Kong type #1, 4 & 9 licensed by SFC
FSC (South Korea), AFM (Netherlands) approved Responsible Officer (D&O)
Independent Board Director for a US-listed Company Asia Electronics Holding Co (2000-2001)
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