Experience

Sharenet
• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Portfolio Manager

  • Oct 2020 - Present


Foord Asset Management

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Equity and Derivatives Trader

  • Feb 2006 - Present

  •Buy side execution/Idea's trader for both the Long Only Funds and Hedge Funds within Foord (local and International). •Foord Asset Management is a dominant local player which manages roughly $6.5bn AUM across its fund offering. •Company turnover is roughly 15-20%p.a (including LO’s and HF) and excludes fund redemptions and new money. •Daily support and recommendations to Portfolio Managers on fundamental Long/Short bias, stock selection, Technical Analysis, Event Driven and opportunistic trades primarily in Global Equities/Equity Derivatives. •Experience executing within, broad International Equities Fixed Income, FX and Commodities Asset classes. Show less



Finsource

• United States
• Environmental Services

• Head of Pricing and Static Data

  • Jul 2005 - Feb 2006

  DUTIES INCLUDE: - DAILY PRICING OF MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS/BONDS, EQUITIES,SAFEX INSTRUMENTS /FOREIGN INSTRUMENTS.(DECALOG,INVEST ONE AND SMAC) - SETTING UP OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS ON SMAC, DECALOG AND INVEST ONE FOR CLIENTS(EQUITIES,BONDS,FUTURE’S, CFD’S AND MOP’S). - THE DAILY UPDATING OF PRICING CHECKLIST’S - SETTING UP OF NEW FUNDS,TRUSTS AND PORTFOLIO’S. - MAINTENANCE, PRICING AND UPDATING OF INFLATION LINKED BONDS, CALL RATES, POOLED FUNDS AND UNIT TRUSTS. - CHECKING SAFEX FOR VOLATILITY SKEW MAINTENANCE,OFFSET MARGIN REQUIREMENTS,OPTION PRICING PARAMETERS AND DAILY CHANGES TO VOLATILITIES ON SMAC FOR SAFEX INSTRUMENTS. - SETTING UP OF NEW BROKERS, BOOKING FEES AND BROKER CODES ON SYSTEMS. - DAY –TO –DAY ASSISTANCE ON CORPORATE EVENTS (IE. LOADIND OF DIVIDENDS RIGHTS ISSUE’S, REDEMPTION’S, DRIP’S, CLAW-BACK’S ON SYSTEMS.) - SETTING UP AND CHECKING OF LDT DATES ON MULTIPLE DATABASE’S. - INTEREST AND DIVIDEND ADJUSTMENT’S ON SMAC. - MAINTENANCE AND UPDATING OF COUPON RATE CHANGES, COUPON PAYMENTS AND MONEY MARKET RATES/ JIBAR RATES. - DAILY LIASING WITH CLIENTS VIA PHONE, EMAIL AND FINTRAC. - DAILY RECONCILING OF CLIENTS MARK- TO – MARFET (MTM) TO CLEARINGHOUSE (SAFEX –SAFCOM) Show less



Old Mutual Asset Managers

• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Portfolio Administrator, Old Mutual Specialized Finance

  • Feb 2004 - Nov 2004

  - THE DAY -TO- DAY ADMINISTRATION FOR OMSFIN’S EQUITY /BOND LENDING DESK. - ADMINISTRATION OF SCRIP LENDS (BONDS/EQUITY), SETTLEMENTS AND COLLATERAL MOVEMENTS. - RUNNING DAILY RECONCILIATION’S OF OMSFIN’S CUSTODY ACCOUNTS (CASH AND SECURITIES). - ASSISTING IN THE DAILY MAINTENANCE AND RECONCILIATION OF OMSFIN PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT. - ASSISTING IN THE PRODUCTION OF OMSFIN’S DAILY CASHFLOW REPORTS. (THESE INCLUDE THE SETTING UP OF TRADES: FIXED DEPOSITS, MONEY MARKETS TRADES, INTEREST RATE SWAPS, AND RESETS ON SWAPS, ZERO COUPON BONDS, REPO BONDS AND ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFERS). - TO PROVIDE OMSFIN TRADERS WITH DAILY MARGIN AND AVAILABILITY REPORTS. - DAILY PHONE CONFIRMATIONS TO COUNTERPARTIES, INCLUDING THE SERVICING OF ANY AD HOC REQUIREMENTS. - ASSISTING IN THE ANSWERING OF OMSFIN QUERIES ON ACCOUNTING AND PROCESS ISSUES, WHILE PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO EXTERNAL AUDITORS. - DAY-TO-DAY USE OF HIPORTFOLIO, SLAMS, WORD, ACCESS, EXCEL AND SMARTSTREAM IN UPDATING PORTFOLIO’S, ADMINISTRATING OF TRADES AND CASHFLOW’S. - TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION TO THE RELEVENT COUNTERPARTIES AND CUSTODIAN ON CORPORATE ACTION EVENTS (DIVIDEND PAYMENTS AND PROXIES) WHILE CALCULATING AND CONFIRMING THE AMOUNTS CONCERNED. Show less