Trader

Posted on: 2007-08-23

Bonnie Bennett 533 Garden Street APT#2 Hoboken, NJ 07030 (201) 683-5520 Email: [email protected] OBJECTIVE To use my education, work knowledge, acquired skills and accomplishments toward furthering my career within the financial services industry. RELEVANT Lord, Abbett & Co., Jersey City, NJ May00-Present EXPERIENCE Head Trader/High Yield Research Group Oct01-Present • Regularly trades for various high yield bond funds. Systematically executes a high volume of trades for large cash fund redemptions or contributions. Trades Opportunistically for high grade, high yield and CDO account(s). • Compares 5 year CDS versus corporate bond issues we currently own and suggests potential trade ideas based on these valuations. Regularly Executes CDS Trades. • Updates relative value spreadsheet daily to identify trading patterns or undervalued and overvalued credits. • Examines market conditions, earnings and significant credit related news that may impact portfolio holdings. • Analyzes trade history, credit default swaps and price fluctuations for high yielding bonds and recommends a proposed action. . • Communicates with sales coverage, traders and analysts daily to discuss credit situations, new issues coming to the market, company news and the merits of investment ideas. • Oversees trade support staff and delegates trading issues/operations their way. Trade Assistant May00-Oct01 • Supported convertible bond and emerging markets desk and executed FX transactions for bonds denominated in other currency’s. • Assisted high yield investment managers in the daily maintenance of portfolios and operations Prudential Global Asset Management, Newark, N.J. Jan99-May00 Sr. Operations Investment Representative: Representative for Global Funding Hedge/Collateral Desk Jan99-Dec99 • Handled all principal & interest disbursements on all collateral and security positions held by PGF. • Tied out daily accounting reconciliation on U.S. treasury positions held by PGF to the income statement. • Evaluated each collateralized counterparty’s NPV under the credit support annex for margin call purposes. Representative for Global Funding Rate/Reset Desk Dec99-May00 • Uploaded FX rates and performs a consistent snapshot of the market on a daily basis for reasonability. • Set rates on all deals that are resetting and checks that all information is maintained accurately and updated. EDUCATION B.S. Pennsylvania State University, Dec. ‘98 Major: Finance & International Business Minor: Economics Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan Aug-Dec 1997 Foreign Exchange Student: • Studied Japanese language, reading and writing while living with a Japanese family. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Plainsboro, NJ. (Internship) Summer 1997 Summer Associate/Business Analyst. Corporate Financial Analyst Assistant: MetraHealth Insurance Company, Hartford, CT. (Internship) Summer 1996 Corporate Financial Analyst Assistant: • Developed the 1997 budget request sent out to HCFA and created workload models for the 4 Government contracts. • Analyzed historical data to forecast future money allocations for budget. • Managed special projects and created database management systems for internal departmental needs. HONORS Series 7, 63 & 65 AWARDS & NYC Marathon ’99 ACTIVITIES AIEJ Scholarship Recipient Deans List Phi Chi Theta: Arranged speakers & planned professional events for national business fraternity. RELEVANT Financial Markets, Derivatives & Services International Marketing, Accounting & Finance COURSES Financial, Managerial & International Accounting Macro, Micro, & Intl Economics Computer Science Business Law COMPUTER Proficient in all Microsoft Office Software, Lotus, Turbo Pascal, Netscape, Lotus Notes, SKILLS Minitab, Windows, America Online and Word Perfect. A conceptual understanding of working with macros. *References Furnishable Upon Request