
Hedge Funds Activities at AXA Investment Managers
Paris Area, France

Hedge Funds Activities at AXA Investment Managers
Paris Area, France
2009– 9 months
AXA IM
- Strategy analyst on Long/short equity fund focused primarily on fundamental and trading , without geographic constraint.
- Risk/reward analysis and active management of existing investments.
- Investments in premium Funds over 100mn$ of AUM.
- On-site meeting with PMs and marketing materials review.
- Idea generation on the Equity markets.
2008– 7 months
HSBC IB
- Single stock trader on Telecom, Media, Technology, Chemistry & Pharmaceutics in Euros. Products include listed and OTC options, exotic derivatives.
- Limits: EUR 100k Vega per underlying, book total vega 60k
- Active management of trading axes to flow sales force, market- making in vanilla and exotic options, and light structured products.
- Idea generation to private banking and institutional sales force.
- Proprietary positioning on sector dispersion.
2007-2008–13 months
HSBC FP
- Trading assistant on the stock derivatives desk of HSBC Financial Products, Convex.
- Volatility fitting, corporate actions, early exercise management on UK and
swiss stocks.
- Equity derivatives positions reconcil iation, P&L computation, risk analysis
and reporting.
- Greeks hedging with both swaps and futures.
- Daily interaction with Middle- Office and Back-Office.
2006– 4 months
IRSAM
- Venture Capital Funds database to assess the reputation of VC funds during the "bubble".
- Paperwork to be published on "Correlation between VC backed IPOs and market return" into the IFC4 booklet reviewed by Mondher Bellalah, based on Thomsons’ data.
2005– 3 months
CLINIQUE DU PARC
- Administrative exec. in a private hospital in charge of computer needs and of international recruitments' feasability.
- Capital markets and derivatives transactions
- Accounting and accounting management.
- Competitive analysis, financing, mergers and acquisition, firm valuation, LBO.
- Financial mathematics, stochastics
- French business and tax laws.
- MS Office, VBA, Sophis, Bloomberg, Reuters.
(Public Company; AXA; Investment Management industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Fund of Hedge Funds, L/S Equity
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HBC; Banking industry)
July 2008 — December 2008 (6 months)
Volatility Trading - TMT - Health/Chemical
- Single stock trader on Telecom, Media, Technology, Chemistry & Pharmaceutics in Euros. Products
include listed and OTC options, exotic derivatives.
- Limits: EUR 100k Vega per underlying, book total vega 60k
- Active management of trading axes to flow sales force, market-making in vanilla and exotic options, and
light structured products pricing.
- Idea generation to private banking and institutional sales force.
- Proprietary positioning on sector dispersion.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HBC; Banking industry)
April 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 4 months)
- Volatility fitting, corporate actions, early exercise management on UK and swiss stocks.
- Equity derivatives positions reconciliation, P&L computation, risk analysis and reporting.
- Greeks hedging with both swaps and futures.
- Daily interaction with Middle-Office and Back-Office.London
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
May 2006 — April 2007 (1 year )
*As a young researcher, I was to organize a VC database to assess the reputation of VC funds during the "bubble".
*Afterwards, I've entered an association of VC-interested researchers to hammer out the fine points of this assessment.
* As a researcher for IRSAM, a French private laboratory, I have presented a preliminary work on "Correlation between VC backed IPOs and market return" during IFC4 at Hammamet in Tunisia
* Paperwork to be published on "Correlation between VC backed IPOs and market return" into the IFC4 booklet reviewed by Mondher Bellalah
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 1 month)
*As a young researcher in financial services, I have been contacted to give courses in both mathematics and English.
*Theses courses include statistics, mechanics and electronics and TOEFL preparation.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)
October 2004 — January 2005 (4 months)
*This internship was once designed to be a "sales" internship but regarding my interest in accounting management the executives of Lothaire BLD had sent me on a datamining and accounting mission in order to rationalize their management.
*Meanwhile I went on selling luxury clothing like Paul Smith, D&G ...
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)
*During this internship, I had to assess the effects of a complete renewal of computers (including CRT to TFT and Unix to MS Windows migrations).
*The other purpose of this internship was to assess the feasibility of recruiting nurses in the newly integrated eastern European countries like Poland.
Master , Trading , 2007 — 2009
- Financial Derivatives
- Financial Mathematics (measure theory, stochastics and optimization)
- Compliance & rules
- Emerging markets
- Commodities
- Preparation to FSA, Eurex
Master Degree Finance , Business School , 2006 — 2008
M1 , Finance , 2006 — 2007
* Financial mathematics (MVA112-113)
* Management accounting (CCG101)
* Probabilities, Stochastics (GFN213)
* Start-Up Financing (ETN206)
Bachelor Degree Finance , Business School , 2005 — 2006
*Financial Accounting, Firm Valuation, M&A, Management Accounting
*955 grade at the TOEIC
UG , Financial Accounting , 2005 — 2005
UGBA , Accounting , 2005 — 2005
*Focus on International accounting (UGBA 102 & 122)
*617 grade at the TOEFL.
Bachelor , Accounting , 2003 — 2005
*DECF (french CPA) preparation
*International affairs
*Marketing basis
UG , Computer Engineering , 2001 — 2003
*ENSEIRB award for the best movie, 2002.
PSI* , Physics , 1999 — 2001
*Preparation programme for the competitive entrance examinations to French leading Engineer Schools.
MPSI , Mathematics , 1998 — 1999
*Preparation programme for the competitive entrance examinations to French leading Engineer Schools
* Accounting management * Judo * Reading * Stochastics
* Management event in La Sorbonne, "Cité de la réussite" (City of success)
* UMP, French right-wing.
* Real Venture Capital a financial research organization (founding member and secretary)
* Attendant at the international real option conference in Hammamet, Tunisia.