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Fiona Zhang, MFE

Associate Portfolio Manager

BIO

Fiona is an Associate Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst at Sowell Affinity, Sowell Management’s investment management division. As an Associate Portfolio Manager, she works to support and co-manage the firm’s strategies. As a Research Analyst, she serves as a programmer and performs quantitative and fundamental analysis to support the investment decisions. Her experience includes sentiment signal construction, factor modeling, and risk parity asset allocation. She is now involved in Affinity model development, portfolio construction, risk management, and other trading and operational processes.

Prior to joining Affinity, Fiona earned her M.S. in Financial Engineering from UCLA Anderson School of Management. She received her B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in Business Economics from University of California, Irvine with summa cum laude. She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

Fiona enjoys the critical thinking process and has been a public forum debater for 9 years. She loves to travel around the country with club members for debate events. She is also a recurve bow archer on the UCLA archery team and likes to hang out and have outdoor practice with friends. She lives with a lovely hamster who is a big fan of melon seeds.