Xinrui Zhang
DESIRED POSITIONS: Investment Banking, Private Equity, Asset Management
Fudan University Scholarship - GPA: 3.53/4.00 (top 10% of school)
Temasek Foundation (SG) Leadership Enrichment and Regional Networking Scholarship (top 5%)
Temasek Foundation (SG) Leadership Enrichment and Regional Networking Scholarship (top 5%)
Summer Analyst
Ivy Capital
June 2016
to August 2016
Internship
Shanghai
China
- Created multiple comps and DCF to analyse early/middle stage venture capital opportunities and exit considerations
- Collaborated on multiple due diligences in TMT, healthcare, pharmacy and insurance sectors
- Visited 9 entrepreneurs and their clients aiming to understand their business models, innovative technologies, profitability and organizational structures, completing comprehensive memos on respective companies
- Researched on Virtual Reality, Genome-sequencing, and China Animation sectors
Business Development Department Assistant
China International Fund Management Co.
February 2016
to May 2016
Internship
Shanghai
China
- Calculated product/team KPIs (AUM, cash flow, etc.) and wrote comments on MTD and YTD changes
- Compiled briefs on all fund product pitching and pipelines, infrastructure updates, and tactical focuses of products
- Improved the database by creating a VBA program to categorize fund shares, simplifying working procedures
Global Market Research Sales Assistant
Nomura International Ltd.
July 2015
to August 2015
Internship
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR China
- Assessed stocks in the oil and gas, China telecoms and China banks sectors
- Presented stock pitches on Sinopec (0386.HK), China Unicom (0762.HK), and ICBC (1398.HK)
- Liaised with equity research experts to obtain a comprehension of DCF, P/B, P/E and SOTP models
- Updated and distributed Long & Short investment memo on a daily basis
- Completed a 30-min presentation on China’s A-share Crash and New Policies in front of a panel of S&T professionals
- MS Office, Bloomberg, Wind, VBA, Eviews, SPSS
- English: fluent
- Mandarin: native
- French: moderate (B1)
- Japanese: moderate (B1)
- 2015 Shanghai Forum Student Journalist and China Finance: Voice of Fudan Lead Editor
- Interviewed Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin and published an article on the nationwide magazine Oriental Outlook
- Interviewed the Prince of Cambodia, the director of the Latvian International Affairs Institution and a senior government official from Brunei during the 2016 Silk Road Think Tank Association Forum
- Initiated the FDUROP Xiyuan Research Project (sponsored)
- Applied factor analysis, ran regressions on panel data, and conducted a typical case study to determine corporate governance factors that affected family business performance
- Awarded the 2015 National Economics Talent Base Excellent Paper Award