James L.

Investment Analysis Specialist @ Manulife GWAM

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

Finance Professional working in asset management industry, with sufficient skills in: 1. Investment modeling and attribution analysis 2. Quantitative enablement & key indicator analytics for portfolio management teams 3. Benchmark management, fund insight reporting, portfolio stress testing. 4. Various automation skills such as Python, power bi, R studio, SQL, Bash, JavaScript, VBA scripting *** SPOILER ALERT *** These mention above are just for linkedin professionalism, my real job is a muay thai fighter and a chief.

Experience

  • Manulife Investment Management (On-site)
    • Analyst, Investment Analytics Solutions
      Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

      - US & Canadian Equity Portfolio Attribution & Asset Allocation; - Quantitative Enablement for Fund Reporting & Risk Calculations

    • Analyst, GWAM Investment Risk Center
      Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 · 8 mos

      - OTC Derivative Risk, Private Market Risk (Infra, Real Estate, Timber & Agriculture Funds), MSCI BarraOne Risk Management

  • Executive Chef at My Lovely Girlfriend
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    - That's actually my only real job: Dedicated to master culinary art for the love of my Life. - Quality of the food: She never produced any leftovers

  • Associate, Investment Research at Capital Variation
    Sep 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    - Macro Trend Reports; Fixed Income/Option Strategy Fund Sale - Served Clients: Mubadala, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Khazanah Nasional, and various multi-family offices based in Europe and Asia.

  • Consulting Analyst at Mercer
    Mar 2022 - Jul 2022 · 5 mos

    - Covid hit my life so hard and decide to do some consulting to suppress my autism - Bunch of PPTs about Automative and Clean Tech research; bunch of excels about Income / Retirement models

  • Competitional Muay Thai, Middleweight at WBC Amateur MuayThai
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

    - Started this job in grade 9 since asian hate in Ohio and west coast was too brutal. - Delivered and Received multiple CTEs, permanently supressed autism and depression by 200%.