Matthew Adams

• Content advisor and contributor for a premier motoring enthusiast media outlet, providing marketing services increasing gross revenues. 

Team manager for the grassroots racing team "Hofmeister Kinks,"  engaged in recreational motorsport, specifically endurance racing.  

• Successfully campaigned 24 hour endurance races over the past 5 years finishing in the upper quartile in every race entered.
• Applied excellent organizational abilities procuring parts & materials, outsourcing labor, and negotiating sponsorship agreements.
• Maintained team budget and expenses maximizing efficiency and minimizing waste.

Manage and administer the investment programs of Rotary International, its foundation, and retirement plans. Including: monitoring and compliance with investment policy statements; addressing issues with the custodian bank, investment consultants and investment managers; coordinating and managing investment restructuring and transitions; preparing various investment reports for the Board, Trustees and management. Management responsibility for Investment Department staff.

• Ongoing private equity manager monitoring and due diligence; covering directs, fund of funds, secondaries, and co- invest funds.

• Maintain relationships with current and prospective investment managers to remain current on investment opportunities and strategies of interest to Rotary.

• Responsible for ongoing investment manager due diligence including, performance monitoring, manager site visits, and annual conference calls. Drafted Rotary’s Due Diligence Questionnaire.

• Responsible for advance memorandum investment items for the Investment Committee, Board, Trustees and other finance committees. Presentation of investment material.

• Production of investment-related material for senior management and Rotarian volunteers for use in Board/committee meetings.

• Annual review and authorship of investment policy statements and manager guidelines to ensure appropriateness, recommending updates as necessary.

• Revised departmental policies and procedures having identified opportunities for improved operational efficiency. Updated procedure documentation.

• Successfully negotiated reduced commission levels for the life income agreements reducing the soft-dollar per-share transaction costs from 5-10 cents to 2 cents.

• Researched and wrote the Rotary International Retirement Committee Charter.

• Remain current on capital market landscape through attendance at client conferences and participation in client

  webinars and conference calls.

• Restructured Rotary’s investment management partnerships resulting in improved operational efficiency and eased tax

  reporting burden.

• Production and distribution of monthly and quarterly investment reports to Directors, Trustees, committees, and staff.

• Develop and approve annual budgets for investment earnings and investment-related fees.

• Responsible for directing cash flows and asset rebalancing activity in accordance with the IPSs and ad-hoc inter-

  departmental transfers.

• Managing the closed defined benefit plan’s LDI glide-path, managing cash flows and rebalancing as appropriate. 

Group responsibility: Accurate daily pricing and evaluation of all asset classes: equity, debt, mortgage related and asset backed, bank debt, currency, complex derivative instruments, domestic and foreign, held across the fund family and all third party accounts, achieving NAV accuracy of 99.9%.

• Experienced with complex derivative products; CDS, total return swaps, inflation swaps, to ensure accurate valuation by the group, either by internal modeling or valuation by external pricing vendor.

• Enhanced international fair valuation process to specifically consider target countries on holiday. Initiated the tracking of significant global events whose consequences could dictate fair valuation action.

• Responsible for ongoing research of fair value price determinations of all security types within the portfolio including; fixed income and structured products.

• Researched the application of a fair valuation metric to international debt securities to reduce staleness of certain fixed income security prices.

• Led monthly pricing committee meetings, composed of members of the executive management team, discussing concerns relative to investment valuations within the fund complex.

• Responsible for the direction and management of an annual budget of approximately $1 million. Expenses include; pricing vendor fees, salaries, travel and continuing education.

• Successfully implemented an automated FASB 157 compliance process, applying knowledge gained through evaluation of topical research and industry best practices.

• Performed continual evaluation of available pricing services for numerous investment types. Identification and contract negotiation with the most accurate and cost effective pricing sources.

• Acted as the liaison between JNAM and both internal and external auditors responding to inquiries regarding pricing and process controls.

• Successfully engaged in continual process review, guaranteeing adequacy of appropriate controls resulting in clean audit and SAS-70 reviews.

• Enhanced internal controls for money market 2a-7 valuation testing in response to changing credit market conditions. 

• Developed and implemented international fair valuation processes with trigger events applicable to specific regions to effectively minimize arbitrage opportunities.

• Developed an Access database for monitoring debt security valuations and credit quality degradation in an effort to proactively identify potential security defaults.

• Designed and implemented for the executive pricing committee review and risk management on a daily and monthly basis, reports regarding security and fund fair valuation, defaulted & distressed securities, stale security identification, and broker quoted issues.

• Maintain relationships with custodian, key service providers, and sub-advisors to obtain current information, resolve discrepancies and increase accuracy with regard to corporate actions, pricing, and trading activities.

• Performed reconciliations between Jackson, the custodians and the sub-advisors with regard to settlement of cash and positions resulting from daily trading activity and corporate action events. 

• Excelled at providing outstanding inbound telephone support to wirehouse and regional brokers of Kemper’s mutual fund products by providing updated fund information and introducing new products.

• Member of the Financial Research and Analysis Team: responsibilities included updating fellow investment representatives about market conditions and the affects on the international funds. 

• Ran orders to and from the trading pits. Entered orders received from brokers into the electronic trading system and endorsed orders when filled.

• Checked for errors in the orders that had been processed through the electronic trading system at the end of the trading day including open order call back. 

CFA Level 3 Candidate.