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Julian Busch

Education

BSc in Business Mathematics
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
2012 - 2016 (part-time)

Languages

  • German (Native)
  • English (Fluent)
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Experience

Sabbatical, Zurich
Personal Time For Projects & Family
June 2023 - today
Enjoying time with family, working on open source projects, contributing to an R course (productive-r-workflow.com) and developing "tsrisk" - a risk and performance metrics calculation platform for price time series built in Python on AWS.
Fisch Asset Management AG, Zurich
Multi Asset Solutions Portfolio Manager
December 2020 - May 2023
Co-responsibility of two mutual funds and four discretionary mandates totaling around 1.5bn CHF in AuM. During my time, I created a systematic approach to tactical asset allocation by integrating technical, fundamental and economic indicators into signals for risk premia attractiveness. I further developed the backtesting framework in R, which we used for testing new investment ideas and simulating client requests. Additionally, I developed a markdown-based system to consistently present internal research and covered the entire operational value chain, including instrument selection, generating orders, rebalancing, fx hedging and risk management.
Head Quantitative Development
April 2020 - November 2020
Lead a team of two senior engineers to build satellite applications for portfolio management teams, with a focus to improve and automate their investment processes. Completed the delivery of momentum signals on single equities for convertible bond portfolio managers.
Senior Quantitative Developer
January 2019 - March 2020
Migration of a variety of services to AWS, using DevOps methodology and cloud-native infrastructure as code. Development of "RiskEngine", a backend service exposed through a REST API that calculates risk and performance metrics on time series.
Quantitative Developer
January 2018 - December 2018
Development of a server-side, R-based portfolio management analytics environment for the Multi Asset Solutions team, including proprietary R packages and a dedicated read-optimized database. Introduced the citizen developers concept to create own analysis and reports.
Previous Roles
Quantitative Analyst
January 2017 - December 2017
DDM AG, Baar
Business Intelligence Manager (80%)
February 2014 - February 2016
Bouygues E&S FM Schweiz AG, Zurich
Business Intelligence Analyst (80%)
July 2013 - January 2014
Bank Frey & Co. AG, Zurich
Support Assistant
July 2011 - June 2013
PwC AG, Zurich

Skills & Proficiency

R, Python
Used R as primary language for research, analysis and models in the context of portfolio management, Python for all other production backend services. Everything was version controlled through git.
DevOps
Deployed Docker-based services through Github CI/CD, to build, test and deploy to AWS, using infrastructure as code with Terraform and AWS CDK.
Project Management
Managed firm-wide multi-quarter projects spanning internal teams and external service providers. Primarily used Jira and Confluence as tooling.
Portfolio Management
Worked on all levels from research through to implementation, strategic to tactical asset allocation, using Bloomberg Terminal as well as Blackrock Aladdin.
Quantitative Investment Analysis
Backtesting of investment strategies, simulations and reporting for clients, portfolio construction as well as risk and performance analysis.