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Dear Students, 

We would like to remind you that we will hold an information session in Seoul on Thursday, May 14.  Join MFE Alumni Youngju Lee Nielsen, Jaeyoung Ahn, and Jaewoo Jung (see bios below) to learn how we can help you launch a finance career.  
 

Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering Info Session: Seoul

Date: May 14, 2015

Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM local time

Location: Hotel Intercontinental Seoul Coex, Allegro Room

Please RSVP through our event registration system

Please email your resume as an attachment to upload.2015041.djegnwpnpl@u.box.com by 12 PM PST on May 12 to participate in the resume review.

Refreshments served!
 

We look forward to meeting you. If you have specific questions about the program, you can contact us to schedule a 1:1 session with one of our admissions advisors or head to our website to chat live with one of our admissions advisors.
 

Can't make it? Join an online event - our full schedule is listed here:

http://mfe.berkeley.edu/admissions/upcoming-events.html
 

Please see our career placement reports here

Youngju Lee Nielsen is an assistant professor at the School of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), in Seoul Korea. She is also a columnist for Weekly Chosun, a leading Korean media company. Her current column "Youngju Nielsen's Wall Street Report" covers world financial markets. Prior to joining Sungkyunkwan University, she was a portfolio manager and partner at Quantavium Capital Management. Quantavium's primary business was to manage global liquid fixed income through various quantitative alternative investment strategies. Prior to joining Quantavium, she ran global interest rates portfolios for the proprietary trading groups at Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan and Citi in their New York offices. She built Bear Stearns' Quantitative Principal Strategy in the Fixed Income (QPS FI) business from the ground up as their managing director and then continued heading the same business at J.P. Morgan. Previously, she was a research officer at Barclays Global Investors. Dr. Lee Nielsen She has 15 years of global fixed income investment experience. In addition to her career in money management, she also taught finance and statistics at U.S. universities including U.C. Berkeley and has spoken at major professional conferences and classes. Youngju received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Statistics (Thesis: Statistical computing, artificial intelligence on stock exchange) from the University of Pittsburgh, the top tier Master in Financial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in economics from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.
 

Jaewoo Jung graduated cum laude from the Seoul National University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, where he earned the prestigious "National Science & Technology Full Scholarship." During his studies, he interned at Accenture, where he designed the 'After Service Fraud Detection Algorithm', which contributed to saving the client 5.2 million dollars annually. Upon developing an interest in the field of finance, Jaewoo passed the FRM examination. His interest in derivatives led him to embark on a career as an equity derivatives trader at Dongbu Securities in South Korea, where he gained extensive knowledge and a strong trading skill set for equity derivatives such as ELS, ELW and index options. He also programmed an 'ELS Pricing Tool' and an 'ELW Market Analysis Tool' for traders. He then transitioned to the ETF Liquidity Provider Desk and was mainly involved with Index/ETF arbitrage trading. Jaewoo joined the Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering program in 2014, during which he interned with JP Morgan in New York City on their Strats and Modeling team. He graduated from the Berkeley MFE Program in March 2015 and is now working as an Associate at JP Morgan in New York.
 

Jaeyoung Ahn received a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, after which he gained about four years of portfolio management experience in commodities and equities at Samsung Asset Management. At Samsung, he developed and managed systematic commodity long/short funds ($40m) and co-managed the nation's largest commodity index fund ($120m). Prior to commodity investing, he managed equity-quant funds ($150m) where he contributed to the team's number one rating in 2009 through portfolio optimization, portfolio attribution, risk analysis and alpha factor selections. He then joined the prestigious Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering program in 2011, during which he interned with Contingent Macro Advisors, constructing cross-asset allocation management tools. He graduated from the Berkeley MFE program in 2012, and accepted a position with Contingent Macro Advisors as Vice President and Senior Market Strategist. He is currently Head of Contingent Macro Advisors' Asia office and works in quantitative research and Asian Client Services. He is a CAIA charter holder and has passed CFA level 1.
 

We look forward to meeting you.
 

Kind regards,
 

The Berkeley MFE Admissions Team

+1-510-642-4417

mfe.berkeley.edu

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