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Michael Fox-Rabinovitz, CFA, CAIA, FRM
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CAREER AT A GLANCE
1996 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011
Enron PricewaterhouseCoopers Risk Capital Mgmt CITIGROUP Private Bank MGN Group UFS Group
1996 – 1999 1999 – 2000 2000 – 2002, 2004 – 2006 2006 – 2008 2008 – 2010 2010 – Present
Trader, Structured Consultant, Financial Risk Head of Emerging VP – Portfolio Mgmt and Chief Investment Managing Director
Products and Energy Management Group Markets Practice/ Investment Analytics for Officer/Portfolio North America and
Derivatives Trading Senior Analyst Global Markets Strategist Emerging Markets
Columbia, MBA, 2002 – 2004
Innovative Investment Management Executive with global experience in portfolio construction, asset allocation, investment
analysis and risk management. Proven ability to lead global teams, build new business lines and coordinate complex projects
in fast-paced, rapidly changing work environments. Bilingual in English and Russian, some Spanish and French, basic German
and Hebrew.
Portfolio Strategist/CIO/CRO
Speaking Personally...
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Portfolio Asset Investment Risk
How has your international experience shaped the way Construction Management Analysis Management
you conduct business today?
A. I have been very fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to
work in all corners of the globe, from Argentina to Russia, from Canada to
Central Asia and from Brazil to Mongolia. Exposure to different attitudes Investment Strategy
and frameworks of doing business has engrained in me the skill never and Policy Development
to make assumptions regarding what is important to a business and
the path it will and should take to get to the final goal. Appreciating
and understanding how cultural, societal and psychological nuances
directly translate into business methods and practices has made me a Emerging Energy Alternative Structured
Markets Commodities Investments Products
much more effective global investment professional.
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Why is thinking of global implications when making
decisions so important in today’s marketplace?
World economies have become tremendously intertwined, and DYNAMIC RESULTS IN
nowhere is this more evident than in the financial markets. With instant EVERY ROLE
access to information and trading around-the-clock, there is no longer
such a luxury as thinking and acting locally; events and information
impact global and local markets almost instantaneously. The “butterfly Grewby broadening existing$500MM
in 1½ years
AUM from $200MM to
effect” theory has become a reality, and I have made it a rule to never
mandates, bringing in new ones, and
make a final investment decision without clearly understanding the
expanding geography of firm’s client base.
range of possible factors likely to impact it no matter how obscure or
geographically distant they may seem.
Oversaw and coordinated
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analytical and research activity across three
What has been the greatest lesson your career has global offices with 25 employees.
taught you?
A. Having witnessed financial giants like Enron and Bear Stearns crumble, Increased Citibank AUM by
and Citibank teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, experiencing countries like $500MM by utilizing IRF (Integrated Risk
Argentina and various CIS states going through defaults and revolutions, Framework) to enable clients to consider
and watching global markets in a death spiral chisels an indelible lesson their liquid and illiquid holdings together in
on the brain- the only thing that is constant is change. As an investment one portfolio.
Led
and risk professional there is nothing more dangerous than complacency, team of 15 in development
and having personally lived through and experienced rapid, sudden, and implementation of
unexpected and dramatic changes serves as an excellent antidote for enterprise-wide market and credit-risk-
that. It is important to not be afraid to make a decision and take a risk, management system for Perez Companc,
but it is twice as important not to dismiss any risks, no matter how remote or S.A., a multibillion-dollar Argentine energy
impossible they may seem, the price of that is not simply failure it is possible conglomerate generating annual profits of
destruction of your business. $350MM.
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