Dastan Hamad

Dastan Hamad

Aspirant Junior Consultant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Lead Portfolio Manager at Goldman Sachs

  • Education

    • De Nieuwe Veste

      2006 - 2012
      Pre-university education, science and engineering

      Activities and Societies: Schoolparty committee Electives: Management & Organisation and Computer Science

    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

      2016 - 2019
      Master of Science (MSc) Econometrics 8.4/10 (4.0/4.0)

      Activities and Societies: Econometric Game 2018 Thesis: Monte Carlo Likelihood Estimation for Univariate and Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models.

    • Universitat de Barcelona

      2015 - 2016
      Extra curriculum Business & Economics
    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

      2012 - 2016
      Bachelor of Science (BSc) Econometrics & Operations Research

      Activities and Societies: Study association Kraket: Caseday committee, Travel committee, Buddy Programme VU, Member of the Ambassador Team VU Thesis: Do more flexible models outperform less flexible models? (E)GARCH-EGB2 models applied to exchange rates.

    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

      2016 - 2019
      Master of Science (MSc) Finance 7.8/10 (3.83/4)

      Activities and Societies: Stichting Move Thesis: A Portfolio Perspective on Environmental, Social and Governance Characteristics of Stocks.

  • Experience

    • Triple A - Risk Finance

      Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
      Aspirant Junior Consultant

      Developed a dashboard in R where we could compare defined contribution providers.

    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

      Sept 2017 - Aug 2018
      Student-assessor at the board of VU School of Business and Economics

      The faculty board is the governing body of the faculty. The board consists of a professional dean, a research portfolio holder, a teaching portfolio holder, and a director of operations. The director of operations also has charge of the faculty office. A student is an advisory member of the Faculty Board. The Board is accountable to the Executive Board.• As a student-assessor of the faculty board I was part of the bi-weekly faculty board meetings where I advised on educational and student matters.• I was part of the selection committee of the dean of our faculty together with the president of the university, faculty board members, head of departments and deans of other faculties.• Quarterly meetings with the president of the university and student-assessors of other faculties to advise on educational and student matters.• I was in close contact with faculty study associations and the faculty student council to be up-to-date on student matters. Show less

    • ABN AMRO Pensioenfonds

      Sept 2018 - Feb 2022
      Investment Manager

      • The investment management team of ABN AMRO Pension Fund is responsible for the investments of approximately 35 billion euros. I was responsible for the financial risk management of the investments, which includes daily risk management and compliance, developing the risk management policies (FX, concentration risk, counterparty risk, liquidity risk, climate risk, etc.) and advising the board on risk management topics.• Managing the relationship with the supplier of the risk management platform (Aladdin). Responsible for the implementation of portfolios, maintainance and improvements of the risk management platform. Advising colleagues on how to use the platform.• Leaded the transition from working in Excel to the programming language R within the investment management team. Leaded a project where we transfered our return portfolio optimization tool from excel/VBA to R.• Developed an ESG report in PowerBI for our board. Show less

    • NN Investment Partners

      Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
      Strategic Advisor
    • Goldman Sachs

      Jan 2023 - now
      Vice President - Lead Portfolio Manager
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Spanish language course

      Estudios Hispánicos - Universitat de Barcelona
      Sept 2015
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Dastan Hamad
      Winner of the Econometric Forecast Challenge 2017 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics Jun 2017
    • Awarded to Dastan Hamad
      Certificate of Top Performance. Rank hotels by Data Mining Techniques. The goal of this competition is to provide the best possible ranking of hotels for each user of the Expedia website. Vrije Universiteit May 2017