Koen Ripping
Co-founder & Director @ Affor Analytics
About
I am Koen, a financial professional with a strong background in econometrics and entrepreneurship. My passions are entrepreneurship, technology, and investing, and I am privileged to be able to combine all of this at Affor Analytics. I love to brainstorm or discuss these topics, so feel free to connect. The coffee is great here!
Netherlands
Rotterdam
Financial Services
Equity Research, Optimization, Quantitative Finance, Bloomberg Terminal, Data Analysis, SQL, Performance Management, Quantitative Research, Data Science, Investment Research, Financial Analysis, Trading, Financial Modeling, Machine Learning, Start-up Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Econometrics, Dutch, SPSS
Experience
Co-founder & Director
Affor Analytics
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
We build systematic investment strategies combining technologies like cloud computing and machine learning with the newest academical research. This enables us to provide our clients with low volatile returns that are uncorrelated with general asset classes.
Founder
Florence Innovations
Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
Helping businesses get a competitive edge by getting the most out of their data.
Head of Quantitative Strategies
Maashaven Trading B.V.
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
- Created data infrastructure in google cloud from source to database - Data cleaning and modelling - Creating quantitative investment strategies
Investment Analyst
Maashaven CT B.V.
The Hague Area, Netherlands
Proprietary investing with commodity focus specialized in following sectors: - Renewable energy and alternatives. - EV metals: Copper, cobalt, nickel and rare-earths.
Co Owner
RIPPING & VOORWINDEN
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
Company within the e-commerce consisting of multiple webshops. Sold Dec-2020.
Financial Analyst
Danum Advisors BV
Amsterdam
Long/Short Hedge Funds - part of Maashaven CT network
Data Performance Analyst
Shell Asset Management Company
Rijswijk, The Netherlands
Working as a part-time contractor at the Performance Measurement department.
Quant Graduate Student
Shell
Rijswijk, The Netherlands
Within the quantitative equity department I wrote my master thesis "Portfolio Optimization With Transaction Cost", For US small cap, the thesis aimed to provide improved signals of the quant model using different market impact models and penalize ranking on expected market impact. Results showed that new rankings provide better results in return net from trading costs.
Work Student
Shell Asset Management Company
Rijswijk, The Netherlands
Client Services department: - SharePoint - VBA Risk department: - Algorithmics
Intern
Nederlandse Spoorwegen
NS Utrecht Hoofdkantoor
I worked on a project to improve working conditions for Machinists and Conducteurs by minimizing last-minute changes in their working schedules using Matlab.
Education
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
Thesis: Portfolio Optimization With Transaction Cost
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Econometrics and Operational Research
Minor: Hoogtepunten van de Psychologie Major: Financial Econometrics Thesis: Economie en Criminaliteit - Finding out the relation between criminality and the state of the economy
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