Olivier Levant
IESE MBA Student
I am MBA student at IESE Business School and I will graduate in May 2012. I would like to join a brokerage firm or an asset management firm as an equity research associate.
31 contacts2011 - 2011Followed news flow from French banks in the market to assist the Senior Analysts in their coverage of the European banking sector.
Conducted studies on European banks' remuneration disclosures and compare findings with the guidelines from the Pillar 3 report from the Basel Committee.
Gathered and organized data on DataStream to create economic charts used in the writing of an economic report on Nordic and Baltic countries.
2009 - 2009Assisted Pr. Zvi Bodie, a Ph.D in economics from MIT, in his research on government issued bonds.
Analyzed market environment for inflation linked bonds in Europe. Researched the reasoning behind the implementation of these products by governments and corporations.
Handled the investigation of the French market for inflation linked bonds, the 3rd market in the world behind the US and the UK with 200bn euro, which corroborated Pr. Bodie's work and helped him finish his study.
Created a presentation based on my findings to strengthen Pr. Bodie's paper intended to the Dutch Finance Minister.
Explored less risky household investment strategies using inflation linked bonds and options.
2008 - 2008Co-managed a 200m euro large cap Japanese equity portfolio, one of the largest Japanese equity portfolios directly managed in Paris.
2006 - 2007Assisted Senior portfolio managers in the management of US and Japanese Equity Funds.
In charge of the daily following of funds NAV
In charge of increasing productivity and communication between the back office, the middle office and my team.
Co-managed a 700mn euro international equity funds of funds.
In charge of all the currency swap transaction involved with the US and Japanese funds.
2004 - 2005Traded on Bond Futures and European Equity Future Indexes.
Identified and studied investment opportunities based on technical analysis resulting in a profit of 15,000 euro on a 30,000 euro capital investment.
Imposed risk management policies helping me succeed as a trader by preventing big losses.
Secured one of the junior proprietary trader positions finishing in the top 10% of the training program class.
