Angie (Yao) LIU
CFA Charter Pending (passed all three levels)
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EXPERIENCE
**** - ******* *********, *******, ****** States
Fixed Income Index Research Associate
• Track and analyze global fixed income markets by contacting government treasury departments and agencies, searching on Bloomberg, Reuters and internet, and consulting bond traders and economists
• Research on foreign market bonds, such as Chilean inflation-linked bonds and Russian corporate bonds, to help analytics team to add in new asset classes
• Prepare, review and publish monthly portfolio fixing and return reports for US Broad Investment Grade (BIG) Index, World Government Bond Index (WGBI), and EBIGC Index
• Answered queries and handled requests from clients about indices and individual bonds
• Series 7 and 66 (63 & 65) registered.
2008 DEUTSCHE BANK, Hong Kong and Singapore
Associate Intern, Prime Brokerage Synthetic Equity Trading Desk
• Developed Excel VBA program that analyzes borrowing and lending interest rates mismatch through scenario analysis. Proposed solutions to help the desk to reduce interest rate risk.
• Attended daily morning call conducted by equity research analysts to learn fundamental research of various industries
• Prepared newsletters to traders by 7am everyday summarizing important overnight market news
Foreign Exchange (FX) Option Trading Desk
• Ranked number 3 among 28 summer interns in trading competition
• Developed Excel Macros that download data from analytics database and generate historical/implied volatilities and correlations among various currency
• Consulted with 90% traders in Asia FX desks to learn about onshore and offshore spot and derivative markets and various key factors driving price movements for each currency
• Authored an Asian currency book serving as reference for corporate clients and new sales people
• Trained to price options for clients, analyze market directions, monitor and hedge risks
2005 - 2007 NESS TECHNOLOGIES, Singapore and Hong Kong
Data Warehousing Consultant
• Provided business analysis and created business intelligence solutions for the client, Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), to consolidate its regional customer transactions from Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Indonesia, establishing centralized regional data analysis platform for DBS.
• Designed architecture and data framework for ATM, Phone Banking and Mortgage Loan business intelligence systems, which enabled DBS headquarter to trace the cost and revenue details of 2 million accounts, customer segments, products and business units of Hong Kong.
• Led international teams from IBM, First Data and Iflex to implement the data warehouse applications for Credit Card, Deposit, ATM and Internet Banking systems.
2004 - 2005 SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD., Singapore
Data Warehousing Analyst
• Built data model for the Credit Risk and Portfolio Analysis project of United Overseas Bank
• Implemented the above project, establishing a global business analysis and reporting platform
EDUCATION
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC, US
Master of Business Administration (MBA), May 09. GMAT 750 GPA 3.6 Investment Concentration.
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, School of Computing, Singapore
Bachelor of Science (honors), Computer Science, Mathematics, May 03. Merit-based full tuition scholarship.
Programming/Software Skills: Excel VBA, C++, Java, Unix, R, Matlab, and PL/SQL, Various databases, Bloomberg, and Reuters 3000 Xtra