Professional Experience

Temasek International

Associate Director, Quantitative Strategies & Performance

July 2017 - Present

Research & Analysis - Equity/Portfolio Strategy

  • Primary research on unconventional topics (eg. Using Equity Risk Premia to infer investors’ holding periods / Are all IPOs profitable?)
  • Develop new metrics and frameworks to measure portfolio managers’ performance in exposure mgmt., position sizing, timing, stock selection
  • Internal consultant to portfolio managers/CIO to identify and quantify drivers of investment performance

Data Analytics & Engineering

  • Build analytics capabilities from zero, establishing data pipelines and lifecycle for analysis and data products for in-house use
  • Lead R programmer for function libraries across data cleaning, transformation, visualisation, reporting and analysis
  • Design, develop and deploy Tableau dashboards based on daily data (interactivity incl. Actions, Chart tooltips)
  • Overhauled multiple reporting data pipelines, saving team 18 hours every month
  • Mentor three junior staff and interns on analytics research and data processing optimization on ongoing basis

Data Science projects

  • Supervised learning (Random Forest) in identification of potential troubled assets
  • Sentiment analysis with text by scraping deal presentation decks

Eastspring Investments

Portfolio Specialist, Asian Equities and Quantitative Investment Strategies

July 2015 - July 2017

  • Articulate investment strategies and market commentary for fund reports and insight articles
  • Participate in portfolio strategy and construction with investment teams, using R, Factset and Bloomberg for analysis and visualisation
  • Pioneered Competitor Analysis on Quant funds for the firm
  • Creation of pitch books for both Asian and Global Low Volatility Equity products

Enterprise Singapore

Analyst, Partnerships & Policy

June 2013 - July 2015

  • Write policy papers to support annual budgets of $6.5m, based on research of SME profiles and behaviour
  • Design and execute schemes to assist SMEs in business management, reaching out to over 4,000 companies
  • Account manager of two chambers of commerce; leveraging their membership to execute the SME Centre programme
  • Worked the ground with SME Centre to outreach to micro-small enterprises
  • Pioneered quantitative analytics on the effectiveness of grants alongside resident Data Scientist
  • Special project for Private Equity subsidiary - Feasibility study on SGX-Catalist board as a viable exit strategy

 

Internships

Morgan Stanley

Institutional Equity Sales (Extended Internship)

May 2011 - January 2012

  • Summarising daily key research for various buyside clients
  • Supported book-building events and client engagement
  • Write weekly bulletin which incorporates popular research and my original ideas from market observations

D-Catalyst, Design Thinking

Trainee, Management Consultant

January 2013 - April 2013

  • Consulted on a $200k healthcare industry project to increase the client’s patient retention at clinics
  • Deliver implementable solutions to improve clinic environment, process and patient engagement

Enterprise Singapore

Industry Development, Biomedical and Healthcare Services

January 2013 - April 2013

  • One of five interns (cohort of 20) recognised for excellent contribution
  • Account management of healthcare companies, ranging across lifesciences and logistics

UOB-SMU Asian Enterprise Institute

Practicum consulting

March 2011 - July 2011

  • Executed a market penetration study for a local company in the LED industry
  • Conducted primary research across 8 in-person interviews with architects, interior designers and contractors