Casper De Ceuster

Casper De Ceuster

Text mining (in R), Student Job

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Fund Manager - Conviction Global Balanced Allocation

  • Education

    • CFA Institute

      2016 - 2018
      Passed Level III examination

      Passed all three levels of the CFA Program.

    • Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege

      2004 - 2010
      Maths and Science

      High school with courses in Mathematics and Science

    • University of International Business and Economics

      2014 -
      Summer School: The business environment in China
    • Vlerick Business School

      2018 - 2018
      Executive Program on Asset Management Asset Management

      Courses: Portfolio management (equity & fixed income), Factor investing and smart beta, Balanced portfolio and asset allocation, Risk and risk management, Performance measurement & Execution and front office, Compliance, standards, governance and regulation, New investments and trends.

    • The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

      2016 - 2016
      Summer School Advanced Econometrics
    • Universiteit Antwerpen

      2013 - 2015
      Master of Science (MSc) Business Engineering

      Most relevant courses: International Financial Management, Banking, Corporate Finance and Strategic ManagementAdditional courses: Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management and Simulation MethodsMaster thesis titled: Opaqueness and frequency-dependent betas: European evidence. original title in dutch: "Ondoorzichtheid en frequentie-afhankelijke bèta's: een Europese studie"

    • Universiteit Antwerpen

      2010 - 2013
      Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Engineering

      Most relevant courses: Mathematics and Quantitative Methods, Statistics, Engineering courses in Mechanics, Chemistry and Electronics

    • Cass Business School

      2015 - 2016
      MSc. Investment Management

      (Now Bayes Business School)Attended courses in Equity Valuation, Fixed Income Analysis, Structured Products (Derivatives), Portfolio Management, Advanced Financial Statement Analysis and Alternative Investments

  • Experience

    • UAntwerpen

      Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
      Text mining (in R), Student Job

      Design of a text-mining environment in R. The focus of the job was to do research on the available functions in R to manage textual data, preform dimension reduction techniques and the construction of classification methods, based on different existing models for this type of data.

    • Degroof Petercam

      Sept 2016 - now

      Fund manager of multi-asset global allocation funds of Degroof Petercam Asset Management, of which DPAM Strategy (+1.7bn AUM) and other white labelled funds.- Fundamental asset allocation based on top down and bottom up research.- Broad exposure to equity, fixed income and fx markets.- Active decision making and end responsibility of investment strategy.- Communication and presentation of investment results to management and clients- Constant portfolio monitoring and relocation. - Member of the group asset allocation (GAC). Show less As part of the flexible and asymmetric strategies team, I co-manage both model driven and fundamentally based investment strategies. Within the team, we manage multi-asset funds with exposure to global markets. This we do in a benchmarked setting as well as in an un benchmarked, absolute return philosophy.In order to construct well-balanced portfolios, we interact with various specialists within each specific assets class to fully understand the current dynamics that drive the investment space. Show less

      • Fund Manager - Conviction Global Balanced Allocation

        Apr 2020 - now
      • Fund Manager - Flexible Allocation and Asymmetric Strategies

        Sept 2016 - Apr 2020
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Bloomberg Market Concepts

      Bloomberg LP
      View certificate certificate
    • Advanced Risk and Portfolio management

      Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
      Aug 2019
    • Summerschool: The business environment in China

      The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies
      Jul 2014