Arthur Quach 515 Anderson Ave. #5A Cliffside Park, NJ 07010 201-945-4492 E-mail: [email protected]

 

FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY

Economic Consultant with 3 years of relevant experience seeking to enhance professional experience. (Has Series 7)

 

EMPLOYMENT

7/98 - Present KPMG Peat Marwick New York, NY

Economic Consultant

Led and produced tax planning and transfer pricing studies and determined tax penalty exposure for client firms.

Performed strategic tax planning estimations for multinational firms.

Prepared quantitative models to address tax planning issues, including P/E evaluation of comparables, debt/equity analysis, debt ratio/credit worthiness analysis, testing the liquidity of a mega-merger proposition.

5/96 - 7/98 DAIWA SECURITIES AMERICA New York, NY

Associate Economist

Forecast macro indicators, including

• Developing econometric/time series models to predict movements in macroeconomic indicators, such as GDP, CPI, productivity, retail sales, employment
• Broadcast prediction results and analyses to trading floor

Monitor Federal Reserve activities, including

• Project daily open market operations
• Project weekly reserve needs of banking institutions and money supply numbers
• Analyze FOMC meetings and outcomes, analyze impact of outcomes on economy

Monitor CBO and Treasury Department activities, including

• Track federal deficit, analyze proposed tax legislations
• Compose and present to the Chief mid-quarter refunding strategies
• Maintain Treasury auction results and the federal gov. current financing situation

Edit weekly Economic Comment (newsletter) written by the Chief Economist

Brief reporters with information on the economy and answer routine questions.


 
 

10/95 - 5/96 NEW YORK CONSULTING PARTNERS New York, NY

Analyst/Chartist/Production

Prepared statistics for consultants

Provided computer support to the production department

8/92 - 12/94 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY State College, PA

Teaching Assistant/Instructor, Macroeconomic Recitations

• Instructed seven macroeconomic recitation classes. 35-40 students in each class
• Annual Teaching Award Recipient, awarded to outstanding instructor or TA based on student evaluations

EDUCATION

1992 - 1995 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY State College, PA

Master of Arts in Economics

• Emphases on monetary policy and macroeconomic forecasting
• Master's Thesis: "The Federal Funds Rate & Monetary Policy"
• Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) Honors Society

1992 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS Richardson, TX

Bachelor of Science in Economics, Summa Cum Laude

Senior's Thesis: "European Monetary Union"

Economics Honor Society

 COMPUTER SOFTWARE

• Proficient in RATS, Aremos, Excel, Word
• Some programming in Gauss, SAS

 

 E-mail: [email protected]