Assistant Manager
Al Meezan Investment Management Ltd
Total years of experience :9 years, 11 Months
Corporate and HNW Sales - Mutual Funds
• Worked within the Treasury department-specific Joint Venture between UAE’s second largest bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, and one of Australia’s leading investment banks, Macquarie Bank Ltd.
• Conducted in-depth financial trend analysis of currencies from fundamental & technical perspectives to forecast intra-day and longer-term market directions.
• Managed new/existing Institutional relationships within the Gulf region to increase trading volumes
• Assisted with the core Forex trading activities.
• Launched UAE’s first hedge fund with broad based portfolio consisting of FX, MM, Local & International Equities, Mutual & Hedge Funds, Fund of Funds, Private Equity Funds, FX & Equity Options, Fixed Income Instruments, Repos, Reverse Repos and Plain Vanilla, Range Accrual, Inverse Floater & Currency Interest Rate Swaps etc.
• Administered Macro Hedge Fund activities:
- Published Fund’s Net Asset Value (NAV) on a monthly basis, leveraging accounting knowledge.
- Educated Fund’s Investment Committee on NAV on a going basis.
- Developed a back office system to support the Fund’s investment portfolio and to build organizational capability
- Verified all plain vanilla and derivative deals for the Fund
- Interacted with external and internal auditors for book balancing and information accuracy
- Interacted with the subscribers to provide Fund related information
- Conducted various Fund report reconciliations to ensure accurate accounting
• Conducted CSAs for the treasury operations department to ensure SOP compliance.
• Settled FX and MM, Bonds, Repos/Reverse Repos, Margin Calls, Collateral etc related deals.
