Diana Baechle, Ph.D.

CEO

New York, New York, United States17 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in equity markets and risk analysis.
  • Published thought leadership in financial insights.
  • Extensive experience in portfolio management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in risk and portfolio management.

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Performance AttributionQuantitative Risk AnalysisEquity ResearchEconomicsFinancial ModelingValuationPortfolio ManagementEquitiesFinanceFinancial AnalysisBusiness ValuationBusiness Analysis

About

As Senior Principal in the Investment Decision Research team at SimCorp, Diana Baechle generates insights into equity markets using Axioma by SimCorp products. She showcases market and risk trends, helping market participants understand their risk environment, identify potential sources of risk, and adapt their investment strategies. Baechle authors the Equity Risk Monitor Highlights weekly letter, along with whitepapers and blogs covering global market events and topics of interest for investors. Before joining Axioma, which later became Qontigo and then SimCorp, Baechle worked as a consultant at Ernst & Young and as a Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst at Mellon Capital Management (a Bank of New York Mellon company).

Experience

17 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Simcorp

2 roles

Senior Principal, Investment Decision Research

Promoted

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Principal, Applied Research

Jan 2024Nov 2024 · 10 mos

Qontigo

2 roles

Principal, Applied Research

Apr 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Applied Research Director

Sep 2019Apr 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Leveraged a broad variety of STOXX and Axioma data and technology to identify trends in financial markets, reveal insights into products and markets, and offer thought leadership
  • Published whitepapers, blogs, market commentary that covered global market events and showed how changes in the risk environment may impact equity investments
  • Partnered with Product, Marketing and Sales teams to deliver collateral for product launches and to increase awareness of Qontigo capabilities, products, and services, with a focus on revenue growth and market positioning

Axioma inc. (now part of qontigo)

Applied Research

Oct 2015Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Developed weekly market commentary on the current risk environment in the US and worldwide markets for over 800 clients and prospective clients
  • Promoted dissemination of key risk insights via published reports, white papers, and conference and client presentations
  • Conducted innovative applied research, using Axioma’s risk management and portfolio construction solutions, on risk modeling, hedging, and stress testing for equity portfolios
  • Delivered risk analyses at clients’ requests by integrating multiple data sources and employing a variety of analytic methodologies

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Manager in the Transfer Pricing Group

Feb 2011Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Managed multiple teams and various types of projects including supply chain restructuring, global documentation, intangible property migration, and tax planning and compliance projects
  • Built financial models to assess intellectual property values and tax benefits from restructuring multi-national companies
  • Evaluated inter-company loan interest rates for multi-national clients using financial statement and credit analyses
  • Performed econometric analysis to support “controversy cases” with tax/regulatory authorities

Mellon capital management

2 roles

Portfolio Manager

Promoted

Jan 2010Nov 2010 · 10 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Successfully managed daily rebalancing trades for $20 million institutional client portfolio in small-cap market neutral strategy; this included tracking stock recommendation changes from quantitative stock selection models, handling portfolio imbalances, cash flows and corporate actions, and submitting trades to trade desk, as well as monitoring and controlling risk in accordance with strategy mandate
  • Oversaw macroeconomic risk control for market neutral and 130/30 portfolios of over $500 million assets under management using Northfield U.S. Macroeconomic Equity Risk Model
  • Independently prospected new client relationships, both internal and external to BNY Mellon
  • Interacted with clients and consultants, and presented regularly on portfolio-related matters

Quantitative Research Analyst

Mar 2009Feb 2010 · 11 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Portfolio Management Support
  • Identified imbalances in long/short portfolios (over-leverage, etc.) and assisted with trade generation
  • Monitored daily activity in portfolios: cash flows, merger/acquisition situations, and other corporate actions
  • Risk Analysis
  • Developed methods for integrating Barra (bottom-up) and Northfield (top-down) risk models, contributing to a significant improvement in the portfolios’ risk profiles
  • Built and administered database for “red-flag events” in US equity universe for a more efficient model override process

Franklin portfolio associates

Quantitative Research Analyst - Graduate Intern

Jun 2008Feb 2009 · 8 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Performed research toward a new long/short small-cap equity strategy that went live with client funding in Dec. 2008
  • Implemented Northfield US Macroeconomic Equity Risk Model, thus lowering macro factor exposure from 50% to 20%
  • Automated portfolio rebalancing procedures, resulting in a more robust process and 10% decrease in rebalancing time

Education

Fordham University

Ph.D. — Financial Economics

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Fordham University

MA — Economics

Jan 2004Jan 2005

Academia de Studii Economice din București

BS — Finance

Jan 1997Jan 2001

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