As a young fintech company, AQUMON consists of a young, lovely team with passion. This time, we interviewed interns working at AQUMON to see where they come from and what they do.

 

Business Development Team

 

Within the AQUMON business development team, there are Product team, Wealth Management team, and Institutional Client Group.

 

The work of product team interns includes analyzing data(summarizing business data, competitive product analysis, customer feedback report, etc.) and interacting with other departments (pre-research, user experience design, prototyping, interaction, interface development with IT team).

 

The Wealth Management team primarily engages with individual users, and internship work includes product operations (featuring improvements, offers), investment education (Blogs, social platform posts), and collaboration with other companies with online, offline events.

 

The Institutional Client Group interns follow up on the needs of institutional clients according to different business lines, including meeting preparation (product introduction, landing plan, client follow-up) and data updates (weekly, monthly reports).

 

 

Name: Wen Cuixin

School: The University of Hong Kong

Major: Accounting & Finance

 

Position: Business Development - Marketing

One fun fact about you: I signed as a child star with TVB when I was a kid, but I broke my contract without even filming a single episode XD

Mentor's take on you: "What? You were born in 2000?"

 

The happiest moment at AQUMON:

Talking and laughing with colleagues at work! The design of our office is somewhat similar to a shared space, so it's easy for colleagues inside and outside the team to communicate and interact. The colleagues at AQUMON, especially those in the Wealth Management and Institutional Client Group, are quite humorous and can often keep me laughing all afternoon!

 

What have you achieved so far:

In addition to learning more about the FinTech industry, different financial products and especially ETFs, AQUMON's vibrant, energetic and progressive culture has been very impressive to me. Working at AQUMON, especially during the epidemic, I learned that a business is not only about making money, but also about designing new ways to make the experience better for our customers, so that we can build our unique brand identity and make them trust us.

 

 

Name: Yun Siying

School: Xiamen University - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Major: Economics - Information Systems Management

 

Position: Business Development - Product

One fun fact about you: I have a lovely doll, named Cynthia.

Mentor’s take on you: "You're so skinny and still losing weight."

 

The happiest moment at AQUMON:

Too many! Like having Christmas lunch with everyone at the Hong Kong office when I first arrived in December!

For example, the happiest time in January is when you can go to Shenzhen every Friday to work, meet your colleagues in Shenzhen, and then have a good meal together, and listen to stories while you eat! Things like having dinner with Wenqi to talk about our mutual idols, having dinner with Alex and Summer to talk about games, etc! For example, watching our handsome bosses play basketball at the Shenzhen basketball game and then eating hot pot with everyone after the basketball game!

 

What have you learned so far:

My internship at AQUMON is about to enter its fifth month and time flies by! The greatest reward was getting to know so many wonderful people! I really learned a lot of product skills, writing requirements & documents, drawing prototypes, etc., even though I still have a lot of shortcomings. Every time I listened to a meeting in silence, it felt like a catharsis, everyone was super professional, logical, had so many ideas, and there was so much to learn from each person! I Felt good working with everyone, and thank you for being so accommodating to me and understanding me! Of course, apart from the product side of things, there is also the weekly financial market summary and some work in marketing has also helped me to improve myself in all aspects, internship at AQUMON can really makes me feel like moving forward and it’s unforgettable!

 

 

Name: Nicole Lin

School: Harvard University

Specialty: Design

 

Position: Business Development - Product & Institutional Client Group

One fun fact about you: dreaming of working for CIA as a child, now I am an immodest designer with a girl-group superstar daydream.

Mentor's take on you: "Are you drawing Snake?" (actually, it’s a visual diagram of a non-linear machine learning model...)

 

The happiest moment at AQUMON:

The moment when the product gets recognized by the users and is officially launched.

 

What have you learned so far:

In-depth understanding of fintech's institutional users’ needs; product & development alignment, MVP from pre-design to post-implementation.

 

 

Name: Brandon Wong

School: University of Toronto

Specialization: Finance & Economic Business, J.D. (Gap Year)

 

Position: Business Development – Wealth Management Team

One fun fact about you: I sneeze when I'm in direct sunlight

Mentor’s take on you: "Brandon, I can see that you eat a lot"

 

The happiest moment at AQUMON:

Being able to work with such great people every day! Everyone is passionate about their work. Everyone is passionate about what they do and is not afraid to showcase their creative problem-solving abilities in a unique way. Everyone's professionalism and quick thinking reflect AQUMON's entrepreneurial culture.

 

What you have achieved so far:

I've learned that communication is key! It's important to keep your team up to speed up your work. As a business development intern, the projects I work on and those of my colleagues are intertwined. Without adequate communication, it's impossible for us to work at the fast pace we need!

 

 

Name: Jackie Cai

School: University of California, Berkeley

Specialization: Economics & Global Studies

 

Position: Business Development - Institutional Client Group

One fun fact about you: I used to drink milk as water and found out after college that I was severely allergic to dairy products.

Mentor’s take on you: "You have a heavy Beijing accent given your American upbringing."

 

The happiest moment at AQUMON:

Successfully completing and getting compliments on the weekly financial market wrap for the first time, because it was my first small project.

 

What have you learned so far:

I'm still in my undergraduate studies and learned a lot about investment theory and products and algorithms in my first week at AQUMON. Every day I feel like I'm learning something new, and then I'm also looking forward to learning more from my colleagues in the days to come.

 

 

Name: Zhang Ruixi

School: New York University - University of Hong Kong

Specialization: Finance & Mathematics - Financial Engineering

 

Position: Business Development - Institutional Client Group

What No One Knows About You: Released 10 songs

Mentor's take on you: “Don’t order so much milk tea”

 

The happiest moment at AQUMON:

When communication with customers is smooth and our products gets approved.

 

What have you learned so far:

Learned a previously completely unknown perspective on products and customers from a business expansion perspective.

 

 

Quantitative Research Team

 

The Algorithms team is the brain of AQUMON and interns often works with data, models and code on a daily basis. The rest of the time is spent on reading cutting-edge papers and participating in product development and deal with R&D, which involves a lot of interdisciplinary knowledge.

 

 

Name: Xu Wanghao

School: University of Melbourne - The University of Hong Kong                                                                                                       

Specialization: Finance - Financial Engineering

 

Position: Algo Team

One fun fact about you: I used to take Latin dance, but now I don't know it at all

Mentor's take on you: "Don't work too hard, go get a date."

 

The happiest moment at AQUMON:

The project turned out as expected (no bugs found, no extra rework!)

 

What have you learned so far:

I read a lot of cutting-edge papers, worked on my coding skills, and had a great time with my colleagues.

 

 

Name: Hayden Zhu

School: The University of Hong Kong

Specialization: Quantitative Finance

 

Position: Algo Team

One fun fact about you: I’m not a fan of any idol group

Mentor’s take on you: "As someone from Chongqing, you are not able to eat spicy food... "

 

The happiest moment at AQUMON:

The completion of the company's institutional product development, which brings new business growth and revenue to the company. Also, it's great to see the algo group achieve 20% female representation, which shows the company's commitment to women's rights and gender equality.

 

What have you learned so far:

At entry level, my mentor gave me a great deal of information on asset pricing and financial theory and I found it interesting to learn about common assumptions of financial markets, such as the market efficiency hypothesis on a mathematical level.

In the process of participating in the product development of the Institutional Client Group, I learned the recently popular machine learning algorithm theory, and also had a better understanding of the asset pricing theory model; in the process of docking with the structure team, BD team and IT team colleagues, I had a more comprehensive understanding of the underlying technology backing of AQUMON, and have a clearer understanding of the future development direction of the financial market, and also better recognized the development path of AQUMON’s automation popularization.

 

 

 

About us

As a leading startup in the FinTech space, AQUMON aims to make sophisticated investment advice cost-effective, transparent and accessible to both institutional and retail markets, via the adoptions of scalable technology platforms and automated investment algorithms.

AQUMON’s parent company Magnum Research Limited is licensed with Type 1, 4 and 9 under the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. In 2017, AQUMON became the first independent Robo Advisor to be accredited by the SFC.

AQUMON’s investors include Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Bank of China International and HKUST.

 

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