Financial Specialist Career Research and Resources
Fortis Investments (now BNP Paribas)
Co-manage $4 billion of assets under management through collateralized-debt obligations. Duties include buying, selling, pricing, and evaluating of all asset-backed securities under management and providing daily market commentary.
Avg. Salary: $0 · Company Rank: Not Available
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Reverse-engineering and verification of the creation mortgage-backed securities for investment banks.
Avg. Salary: $0 · Company Rank: Not Available
Bank of America
Head Nikkei Trader on a 7 man team with $20-40 million profits per year, responsible for trading Options and futures. Responsible for managing position risk, hedging other team members, and producing daily technical analysis for team
Avg. Salary: $100,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Slater Securities LLC
Trade and Manage risk on Coffee Futures and Options via open outcry market. Use Electronic trading platform to exploit arbitage and maximize profit
Avg. Salary: $120,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
BNP Paribas
Monitored the risk in the portfolio, proposed macro hedging strategies, and partnered with trading/research to identify positions that would drive profitability for the Credit Trading business.
Avg. Salary: $165,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
BNP Paribas
Reported directly to Global Head of Corporate Bond & CDS business. Performed statistical/quantitative analysis on risks that affect the high grade/high yield credit businesses, designed supporting analytics to help evaluate risk/reward characteristics of a portfolio/trade, and assisted global/local desk heads in implementing macro hedge strategies.
Avg. Salary: $165,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
BNP Paribas
Published trading ideas for High Grade/High Yield Bonds and Credit Derivatives. Recommended numerous types of trades that included: positive/negative basis, credit curve, duration/notional neutral, Credit Default Swap (CDX) Indices, and convexity.
Avg. Salary: $165,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
BNP Paribas
Performed daily analysis of risk exposures/trading strategies for Integrated Credit Trading that includes: Credit Derivatives, High Grade/High Yield Bonds, Debt/Equity Arbitrage, Structured Credit, and Emerging Market Proprietary Desks.
Avg. Salary: $165,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
JP Morgan
Assessed the Portfolio Risk for Credit Derivative Flow business (High Grade, High Yield, and Emerging Markets) by monitoring Value at Risk model parameters including: credit spread volatility, spread correlation, rating transition matrix, and credit rating changes.
Avg. Salary: $165,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Bank of America (formally Merrill Lynch)
Calculated profit and loss for credit derivative products including: default swaps, credit spread options, asset swaps, basket swaps, credit linked notes, and total rate of return swaps.
Avg. Salary: $165,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
