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Akshay Gupta, CFA

Akshay Gupta, CFA

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Asst. Portfolio Manager at Nipun Capital, L.P. | MFE - Haas School of Business | IIT Delhi

  • Education

    • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

      2009 - 2014
      Dual (B.Tech + M.tech) Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

      Master's thesis on Monitoring Public Confidence in Immunization Programmes.

    • University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

      2019 - 2020
      Master of Financial Engineering Financial Mathematics

  • Experience

    • Polytech Nantes

      May 2011 - Jul 2011
      Research Intern

    • Schneider Electric

      May 2012 - Jul 2012
      Intern

    • Samsung Electronics

      Jun 2014 - Nov 2016

      • Worked on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Samsung's voice command application named Bixby.• Researched and implemented NER statistical models for information extraction & coalesced it into Statistical NLP.

      • Lead Engineer

        Apr 2016 - Nov 2016

      • Senior Software Engineer

        Jun 2014 - Mar 2016

    • Deutsche Bank

      Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
      Senior Analyst

      • Worked in TradeFinder team with Treasury desk; primarily involved in building money management reports and trade booking systems for Treasury desk.• Designed and implemented comprehensive platform for trade booking and analysing various specialised portfolios.

    • Moody's Analytics

      Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
      Quantitative Research and Modelling

      • Portfolio Research (Credit Asset and Liability Management Team): Pricing complex Insurance products using Multi-Dimensional Simulations.• 2019 VHK Innovation Recognition: First Place.

    • Moody's Analytics

      May 2020 - Mar 2023
      Portfolio Research, Assistant Director

      • Integral part of the research team that redesigned 2021 NAIC regulatory guidelines (RBC C1 bond factors) in collaboration with ACLI for life insurance ~$3 trillion credit holdings. (literature attached)• Researched and implemented a statistical model that predicts corporate borrower's credit rating transition probabilities and rating based regulatory metrics. (literature attached)• Pandemic Credit & Data Analytics (PCDA): Analyzed and presented to multiple global institutions the cross-industry multi-period impact of Covid-19 on their credit portfolios.• PortfolioStudio (PS): Worked on a SaaS based credit portfolio management product which combines portfolio analytics and decision enabling tools to effectively identifies, measures, and manages risk. Show less

    • Nipun Capital, L.P.

      Mar 2023 - now
      Assistant Portfolio Manager

      Global Emerging Markets Long/Short and Long-only Equity fund.

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Akshay Gupta, CFA
      2020 Extra Mile Award Moody's Analytics Dec 2020 Awarded for diligently helping clients to quantify the Covid-19 affects on their credit portfolios.
    • Awarded to Akshay Gupta, CFA
      2019 VHK Innovation Award Moody's Analytics Dec 2019 Secured 1st place in 2019 VHK Innovation Challenge across all Research and Modelling teams at Moody's Analytics.
    • Awarded to Akshay Gupta, CFA
      Ministry of Human Resource Development (Govt. of India) Scholarship Ministry of Human Resource Development, India 2013 Awarded for Teaching Assistantship.
    • Awarded to Akshay Gupta, CFA
      French Government Charpak Scholarship Embassy of France - India 2011 Awarded to pursue research internship at École Polytechnique de Nantes, France.
    • Awarded to Akshay Gupta, CFA
      Director’s Award for Academic Excellence IIT Delhi 2010 Recipient of the Director’s Award for Academic Excellence for attaining SGPA of 9.83/10 and being amongst the top 7% academic performers.
    • Awarded to Akshay Gupta, CFA
      AIEEE Scholarship Ministry of Human Resource Development, India 2009 Awarded to 2,000 among over 1,000,000 candidates.
    • Awarded to Akshay Gupta, CFA
      CBSE Merit Award Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) 2009 Conferred for scoring 100 percent in Mathematics, AISSCE Class XII Boards.