1. Yang Liu
Phone: (469)682-2846
Email:yang.liu91@yahoo.com
Objective
Seeking a financial position related to CorporateFinanceor Asset Management
Education
Master of Science in Finance, Investment Concentration GPA: 3.834/4
University of Texas at Dallas,Dallas,Texas Expected 05/2016
Bachelor of Economics, Minor in International Economicsand Trade GPA:80.93/100
Huaqiao University,Fujian,China 06/2014
Skills & Language
Computer Skills: MicrosoftSoftware (Excel and Access),Visual Basic
-Develop a personalizespreadsheetto organizenew data in a presentableway
-Analyze and organizefinancial data with differentExcel Functions (Vlookup,Goal Seek, Regression and Solver, etc.)
-Access useful information within a huge data base through Access by means of filtering
Language: Chinese, Cantonese, English as a second language
Projects
Corporate Finance Project – Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. 2015 Spring Semester
-Launch a Top-down market research within the Soft Drink industry usingPoter’s five forces analysis
-Build an accurate common size financial statements not only utilizing historical data, but also construct important
assumptions,such as growth rate, and employ “plug” method for financial forecasting
-Calculatethe free cash flow,WACC and apply DCF valuation method to capture the market prices of DPS which are
$75.25 and $85.5 in 2015 and 2016 respectively
Quantitative Project
-Construct an optimal portfolio with Minimum Variance and Maximum Sharpe Ratio with five randomly selected
stocks
-Estimate CAPM beta and test sufficiency of the coefficients
Global Fund Project—UTD Investment Corporation 2015 Summer Semester
-Launch a Top-down overall marketresearch by analyzingdifferenteconomic factors,such as inflation rate,currency,
exchange rate, to select best performed sector
-Screen stocks and evaluatetheir future performance by analyzingdifferentmultiples
-Present our ideas to a group of analysts in a professional way and attract a unanimous vote for the company
(AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.) we chose
Advanced Investment Project—Asset Management 2015 Fall Semester
-Construct an optimal portfolio with all assetclasses with our passivemanagement strategy
-Personalizeworksheets to keep track of the daily and weekly performance of our portfolio
-Achieve 6% returns in three months and top three gainers even earn an averagereturn of 10%
Leadership
Course Project
-Efficiently communicatewith team members and organizingworks throughoutthe semester
-Understand the importanceof team work and being ready to shareand accept advices fromgroup members
Cultural Communication Department—Vice Minister 2011 – 2012
-Set up the communication activities between overseas Chineseand domestic students
-Launch the regular communication and parties for get-together to strengthen the bonds